Crossword-Solution: DECOY 5 letters, 119 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Decoy	v. t.	To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net.
Decoy	n.	Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait.
Decoy	n.	A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot.
Decoy	n.	A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them.
Decoy	n.	A person employed by officers of justice, or parties exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection.

We have 119 clues for the answer “DECOY”

Clue	Answers
Artificial duck	1 answer
Artificial duck used by a hunter	1 answer
Bit of deception used as a lure	1 answer
Cork duck, e.g.	1 answer
Deceptive military tactic	1 answer
Distracting duck	1 answer
Diversionary device	1 answer
Duck blind attraction	1 answer
Duck blind.	1 answer
Duck hunter's equipment.	1 answer
Duck hunter's lure	1 answer
Duck hunter's ploy	1 answer
Duck that's not a duck	1 answer
Duck with a blockhead?	1 answer
Duck-hunter's need	1 answer
ENTICE into place of capture	1 answer
Fake drake	1 answer
Fake drake, e.g.	1 answer
Fake drake, say	1 answer
Fake duck	1 answer
Fake duck, e.g.	1 answer
Faux teal	1 answer
Hunter's diversion	1 answer
Hunter's fake drake	1 answer
Hunter's plastic duck, e.g.	1 answer
Hunter's ruse	1 answer
Hunter's trick	1 answer
Hunter's wooden duck	1 answer
Imitation duck	1 answer
Inflatable duck, e.g.	1 answer
Inveigle, in a way	1 answer
It may fool you	1 answer
It's distracting	1 answer
Lodge decoration, perhaps	1 answer
Look-alike, maybe	1 answer
Lure into a trap	1 answer
Luring device	1 answer
Mislead a mallard	1 answer
Misleading thing	1 answer
Mock duck?	1 answer
Mock mallard	1 answer
Not-quacker?	1 answer
Odd duck, maybe?	1 answer
One may appear to be a dabbler	1 answer
POND with narrow arms covered with network	1 answer
POOL with narrow arms covered with network	1 answer
Part of a trap	1 answer
Phony duck	1 answer
Plastic duck, e.g.	1 answer
Police sting participant	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

Hint 2 anagram

AEAR

Hint 3 another clue

CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE

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Sentences with DECOY (5)

The bird-trap was quite empty, as he had caught nothing, and he had to kill a pied Partridge, which he had tamed for a decoy.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

Marguerite’s aching heart almost stopped beating as she listened: was the young one Armand?—her brother?—and the old one de Tournay—were they the two fugitives who, unconsciously, were used as a decoy, to entrap their fearless and noble rescuer.

The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993

Isn't it possible that the FBI is an unwill- ing dupe, a decoy in a much larger scheme that isn't obvious yet?" Scott liked the sound of his thinking and he saw that Tyrone wasn't buying his argument.

Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993

Unwilling to abandon him, bound to him by the chains of shame and hope, yet she would not be a decoy, nor, at his bidding, lure me to death.

The Prisoner of Zenda Anthony Hope 1993

Confronted with ruin, Eyraud and Gompard hit on a plan by which the woman should decoy some would-be admirer to a convenient trysting-place.

A Book of Remarkable Criminals H. B. Irving 1996

Quotes with DECOY (3)

The trouble is," sighed the Doctor, grasping her meaning intuitively, "that youth is given up to illusions. It seems to be a provision of Nature; a decoy to secure mothers for the race. And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.

Kate Chopin The Awakening and Selected Stories

I never said you were supposed to be a jailer, i only said a normal person would have questioned why someone would create a decoy nun and then crawl out the window.

Janette Rallison Just One Wish

Obama's rhetorical overtures to democracy, it turned out, were just a decoy to conceal his unwavering determination to govern from the far left.

Sean Hannity Conservative Victory: Defeating Obama's Radical Agenda

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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 138 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).