Crossword-Solution: HOAXES 6 letters, 23 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

We have 23 clues for the answer “HOAXES”

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Big tricks 1 answer
Some urban legends 1 answer
Some April 1 news stories 1 answer
Piltdown Man and others 1 answer
Major pranks 1 answer
Impostures 1 answer
Elaborate pranks 1 answer
Elaborate deceptions 1 answer
E-mails from Nigerian princes, e.g. 1 answer
Deliberate deceptions 1 answer
Barnum specialties 1 answer
Alien autopsies, crop circles and the like 1 answer
"The Hitler Diaries" and others 1 answer
Deceptive schemes 2 answers
Fodder for Snopes.com 2 answers
Counterfeits 3 answers
Fast ones 3 answers
Practical jokes 6 answers
Put-ons 7 answers
Fakes 10 answers
Flimflams 10 answers
Frauds 12 answers
Deceptions 18 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HOAXES (5)

Elaborate April Fool's hoaxes are a hallowed tradition on USENET and Internet; see {kremvax} for an example.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
The whole story now seems to have been the outcome of one of those stupid rural hoaxes too common in California.” “Well,” said Mrs.
A First Family of Tasajara Bret Harte 2006
With such happy natural gifts, he not only fell into all traps that were laid for him, but seemed almost to go out of his way to seek them; although, to be sure, his friends did not give him much trouble in that search, for they prepared hoaxes for him incessantly.
The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh William Makepeace Thackeray 2001
The "Gazette" printed bits of local news, extracts from the London "Spectator", jokes, verses, humorous attacks on Bradford's "Mercury", a rival paper, moral essays by the editor, elaborate hoaxes, and pungent political or social criticism.
The Age of Invention Holland Thompson 2001
Perhaps he concluded that hoaxes in any form were dangerous playthings; they were too likely to go off at the wrong end.
Mark Twain, A Biography, Vol. 1, Part 2, 1866-1875 Albert Bigelow Paine 2001

Quotes with HOAXES (3)

If you think that climate change and global warming are hoaxes, then you are easily fooled.
Steven Magee
Political prisoners describe:- extreme physical and emotional torture- distortion of language, truth, meaning and reality- sham killings- begin repeatedly taken to the point of death or threatened with death- being forced to witness abusive acts on others- being forced to make impossible "choices"- boundaries smashed i.e. by the use of forced nakedness, shame, embarrassment- hoaxes, 'set ups', testing and tricks- being forced to hurt others Ritual abuse survivors often describe much the same things.
Laurie Matthew Who Dares Wins
Information or allegations reflecting negatively on individuals or groups seen less sympathetically by the intelligentsia pass rapidly into the public domain with little scrutiny and much publicity. Two of the biggest proven hoaxes of our time have involved allegations of white men gang-raping a black woman-- first the Tawana Brawley hoax of 1987 and later the false rape charges against three Duke University students in 2006. In both cases, editorial indignation rang out acro…
Thomas Sowell Intellectuals and Society
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 25 times in crossword archives (1979–2025).