Crossword-Solution: REDHERRING 10 letters, 51 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

We have 51 clues for the answer “REDHERRING”

Clue	Answers
Misleading Clue	1 answer
Don't be misled by this	1 answer
Embarrassed fish?	1 answer
Fake footprint at the murder scene, e.g.	1 answer
False lead	1 answer
Fishy clue	1 answer
Fishy diversion	1 answer
Fishy fish	1 answer
Fishy lead	1 answer
Irrelevant clue	1 answer
It diverts the attention.	1 answer
It misleads	1 answer
Literary device that probably doesn't mean what you think it does	1 answer
Diversionary trick.	1 answer
Misleading evidence	1 answer
Mystery misdirection	1 answer
Mystery story trickery.	1 answer
Mystery writer's favorite appetizer?	1 answer
Mystery-novel item	1 answer
Piece of literary misdirection	1 answer
Planned distraction	1 answer
Purposeful misdirection	1 answer
Seemingly important but actually irrelevant factor, like this answer	1 answer
Something that distracts attention from the real issue	1 answer
Something that diverts attention from main issue.	1 answer
Fishy misleading clue?	1 answer
Diversionary tactic, as in politics.	1 answer
Diversion; distraction	1 answer
Distracting literary device	1 answer
Dish for a shifty politician	1 answer
Device used in mystery writing	1 answer
Deliberate distraction	1 answer
Decoy, of sorts	1 answer
Creature of whodunit distraction	1 answer
CARDINALFISH?	1 answer
Attention diverter	1 answer
Whodunit misdirection	2 answers
Misleading lead	2 answers
False clue	2 answers
"Whodunit" ingredient.	4 answers
Whodunit staple	4 answers
Diversionary tactic	5 answers
ARTFUL dodge	7 answers
CLUE MISLEADING	10 answers
AN ILLUSION THAT MISLEADS	10 answers
A DELIBERATELY MISLEADING FABRICATION	10 answers
AN OUTWARD OR TOKEN APPEARANCE OR FORM THAT IS DELIBERATELY MISLEADING	10 answers
A MISLEADING SIMILARITY	10 answers
BASED ON AN INCORRECT OR MISLEADING NOTION OR INFORMATION	11 answers
Subterfuge.	25 answers

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Dermatological complaint

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Hint 1 meaning

An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

Hint 2 anagram

CMZEAE

Hint 3 another clue

eruption

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Unscramble REDHERRING 10-letter words that start with R 10-letter words that end in G 10-letter words containing ED 10-letter words containing NG 10-letter words with R and E

Where this answer appears

Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 37 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).