Stratagem Crossword Clue

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Stratagem Crossword Answer

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ARTIFICE

(8 letters)

SCHEME

(6 letters)

TACTIC

(6 letters)

RUSE

(4 letters)

GAMBIT

(6 letters)

Helpful Hints

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

Hint 2: Clue Definition

STRATAGEM (noun)
1. an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
2. a maneuver in a game or conversation

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

ARTIFICE
(8 letters)
SCHEME
(6 letters)
TACTIC
(6 letters)
RUSE
(4 letters)
GAMBIT
(6 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

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

More Apple+ Crossword (5/16/2026) Answers

Across

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15. Free of charge

16. Word on all current U.S. coins

17. Canadian potato-chip flavor called assaisonnées in French

18. Deep mud

19. ___ One (vodka brand)

20. "Beauty and the Beast" or "Live and Let Die"

22. Rover instruction

24. Nickname of a New York sports team

25. Signals-intelligence group

26. One of 21 on a die

29. Zero people

31. Silly, near Piccadilly

33. 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' author Carle

35. Technology that corrects for special and general relativity

36. Big Brother and the Holding Company frontwoman

38. Therapy topics

40. Phrase on a yard sign

41. Secret ones are assigned randomly

42. ___ Lilly

43. ___ out (scrapes together)

44. One of three in the English Football League

45. Score 50%, for example

47. The "e" in i.e.

48. Sororal palindrome

49. Competent

51. Pro ___ (shortened Latin phrase meaning "for the time being")

53. Have to start counting all over again

56. Far-fetched tales

60. Part of a course

61. Indulgence for someone with a shoestring budget?

63. Second team to break the "Super Bowl curse"

64. Mister

66. Hook up

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Down

1. Place for a worm or a twig

2. Wheel shaft

3. "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" captain Raymond

4. Candy brand with a mountain logo

5. Arthurian advisor

6. There you ___!

7. Flag holder

8. Tag symbols

9. Beginning of a clandestine message

10. Confuse

11. Chalky antacids

12. Part of everything?

13. Pay-to-spin devices

14. Symbol of resistance

21. Star Wars moon that's a Star Wars show with its first letter changed

23. Senate attire

26. Some household occupants

27. Like π and e

28. Very softly, in a score

30. Photo ___ (publicity events)

32. Semicircular section of a church

34. Clever

36. Blunt alternative

37. Stack like mixing bowls

39. French revolutionary Jean-Paul

40. __ shot

42. Magnetic attachment?

45. Straw-colored

46. Item on a ring

48. Sound in a ramen shop

50. Work stoppage

52. The Wire antagonist Stanfield

54. Marketplace since 2005

55. Ray who bought McDonald's from the McDonald brothers

57. Puerto ___

58. Interesting …

59. Targets of some data breaches, for short

62. Shoot!

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