Ploy Crossword Clue

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Ploy Crossword Answer

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TACTIC

(6 letters)

RUSE

(4 letters)

SCHEME

(6 letters)

Helpful Hints

(noun)
1. a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)

Hint 2: Clue Definition

PLOY (noun)
1. a maneuver in a game or conversation
2. an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

TACTIC
(6 letters)
Ruse
(4 letters)
SCHEME
(6 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
RUES

More Boston Globe Crossword (7/22/2024) Answers

Across

1. ___ Jim (jerky brand)

5. Pet adoption org.

10. Corp. money pros

14. Refer to

15. Svedka rival, informally

16. Aloha Stadium's island

17. No. 2

18. More achy

19. "Really?!"

20. Micronesian microstate

22. School grp. that may host a shoe drive

23. Bibliophile's collection

24. Each of the starred clues' answers, or what these answers' starts collectively sound like

27. QB's try

29. Copies on an email

30. Toothy tool

33. Loud noise

35. Lifted or boosted

36. “Look at what I did!”

37. Mononymous Irish singer

38. Raga rock instrument

39. Bad sign, perhaps

40. Animals in a pride

42. Slugger Mel with 511 home runs

43. "This just isn't my hand"

44. Eye topper at a spa, casually

45. Science education advocate Bill

47. Swiatek who defeated Coco Gauff at the 2024 French Open

49. "___ favor"

50. Goes out for a bit?

54. Where one might go out on top?

58. "Um, of course!"

59. Meteorologist's tracking tool

61. Brit lit's Jane

62. Fall blooms, in brief

63. Absurd

64. Hindu exercise discipline

65. When a plane should get in: Abbr.

66. Cliff projection

67. See 60 Down

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Down

1. Go over quickly

2. "___ the Vegetarian" (1995 episode of "The Simpsons")

3. "I'd rather not decide"

4. Washington, D.C. subway

5. Obnoxious person

6. Animation technique in "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio"

7. *Place to go outside?

8. Fresh start

9. Broadcast

10. Campfire beverage

11. Big name in bite-size cookies

12. Now it makes sense!

13. Soaks up rays

21. Www.reddit.com, e.g.

23. Han and Leia's son

25. Throw gently

26. Wedding cake layer

27. Cain's brother

28. Gin mixer

31. Mononymous British singer

32. Magic show prop

34. *Certain sling swimsuits

36. *Vegan Thanksgiving dish

41. Genesis console maker

43. Metal that rusts

48. Autism Awareness Month

49. Blender setting

50. Attend

51. Border on

52. "Bridgerton" rating

53. Rational

54. Loud noise

55. "We're not providing alcohol," for short

56. Hence

57. ___ Kennedys (punk band)

60. With 67-Across, certain fatherly physique

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