Con Crossword Clue

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Con Crossword Answer

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ANTI

(4 letters)

DOWNSIDE

(8 letters)

SCAM

(4 letters)

SWINDLE

(7 letters)

AGAINST

(7 letters)

DRAWBACK

(8 letters)

MINUS

(5 letters)

INMATE

(6 letters)

RUSE

(4 letters)

Helpful Hints

Hint 1: Clue Definition

CON (verb)
1. commit to memory; learn by heart
2. deprive of by deceit
CON (noun)
1. a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
2. a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

Hint 2: Other Answers Used in the Past

ANTI
(4 letters)
DOWNSIDE
(8 letters)
SCAM
(4 letters)
SWINDLE
(7 letters)
AGAINST
(7 letters)
DRAWBACK
(8 letters)
MINUS
(5 letters)
INMATE
(6 letters)
RUSE
(4 letters)

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11. Spot for a speaker

15. Grub

19. Decide one will

20. Has no use for

21. 'Gross!'

22. Triumphant whoop

23. Astronaut’s experience

27. Lionizing lines

28. Cut off

29. Doily material

31. “The Elements” singer Tom

32. Avoids a return envelope?

34. Team rooted on by the Bleacher Bums

35. Formally certify

36. Glossy cotton fabric

38. Development site

39. Early alternative to FORTRAN

41. Traditional Easter dish

42. Drifter

44. 1963 hit for the Chiffons

49. Cookies-and-cream milkshake addition

50. Relieved cry after a hard week

51. In the least

52. Kaplan of "Welcome Back Kotter"

53. Seafaring Disney character

55. “The Bald Soprano,” e.g.

58. Amused look

59. With nose to the grindstone

61. “___ la Douce” (Shirley MacLaine movie)

62. Dorm fillers

64. XXX

66. Star pitcher

68. “Yowser!”

69. Site of out-of-this-world experiments

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76. Captured, in a way

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81. Pair

85. Jazz clarinetist Shaw

86. Western nation

87. Front parts

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94. Search for water

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96. Entirely

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112. Clear choices for car buyers

114. Bygone store

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118. “Once ___ a Mattress”

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Down

1. Doofus

2. Parroted

3. Food truck offering

4. Olympian Midori

5. Enters a password, perhaps

6. “Ta-ta!”

7. Basilica areas

8. What not to do to Bond's martini

9. Vietnamese festival

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11. Checkers, e.g.

12. Massage target

13. 1952 campaign nickname

14. Class handouts

15. 2002 monster comedy movie

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17. Big books

18. Hägar's dog

24. Ease up

26. Reveal

30. ABC’s “___ Elementary”

33. Number series found in patterns in nature, and in order in the starts of 23-, 44-, 55-, 81-, 91- and 114-Across and 15-Down

34. Fish with a barbel

36. Sportscast staple

37. Judge who’s infrequently on the bench

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39. Culture collection

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47. Slightly

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54. 1975 Wimbledon champ

56. Grp. for physicians

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71. Stress, perhaps

72. Frontiersman Daniel

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75. Fresh

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79. Gets together

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