Crossword-Solution: RUSES 5 letters, 58 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

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RUSES anagram RESUS, REUSS, RUSSE, SUERS, SURES, USERS

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Underhanded schemes 1 answer
Clever cons 1 answer
Clever deceptions 1 answer
Clever little misdirections 1 answer
Clever schemes 1 answer
Con men pull them 1 answer
Deceitful distractions 1 answer
Deceptive ploys 1 answer
Deceptive tactics 1 answer
Devious devices 1 answer
Devious tactics 1 answer
Dirty tricks 1 answer
False moves 1 answer
Hiding soldiers in the Trojan horse and such 1 answer
Imposter's forte 1 answer
Little games 1 answer
Relatives of Trojan horses. 1 answer
Shifty stuff 1 answer
Slippery moves 1 answer
Sly tactics 1 answer
Sneaky plans 1 answer
Strategic tricks 1 answer
Surprise birthday parties often involve them 1 answer
Tricky moves 1 answer
Sneaky tricks 2 answers
Red herrings 2 answers
Misdirections 2 answers
Tricky tactics 2 answers
Tricky stratagems 2 answers
Slick tricks 2 answers
Smoke screens 2 answers
Feints 2 answers
Devices. 3 answers
Strategems 3 answers
Sneaky stratagems 3 answers
Gambits 3 answers
Ploys 4 answers
Deceptive maneuvers 4 answers
Artifices. 5 answers
Pre-texts? 5 answers
Machinations 5 answers
Subterfuges. 5 answers
Maneuvers 7 answers
Pretenses 7 answers
Strategies 7 answers
Stratagems 7 answers
DEEP POLITICAL MACHINATIONS 10 answers
A DECEPTIVE MANEUVER 10 answers
Hoaxes 10 answers
Dodges 10 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RUSES (5)

Why, the Russians retreat like the wind, and have a thousand ruses at command, in order to retard an enemy.
Wild Wales George Borrow 1996
Isolated fishing vessels always were kept under close observation, for one of the many ruses of the submarine was to adopt the disguise of a harmless fishing boat with masts and sails.
British Airships, Past, Present, and Future George Whale 1996
TRICKS AND RUSES TO BAFFLE THE AIRMAN The airman has not been allowed to hold his undisputed sway in military operations for long.
Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War Frederick A. Talbot 1997
Well, he's got to pay for it.” By this time, Burke, a man of superior intelligence, as one must be to reach such a position of authority, had come to realize that here was a case not to be carried through by blustering, by intimidation, by the rough ruses familiar to the force.
Within the Law Marvin Dana 1997
The difficulty is to seize at the beginning; in the entangled skein, the main thread, which must lead to the truth through all the mazes, the ruses, silence, falsehoods of the guilty.
The Mystery of Orcival Emile Gaboriau 2006

Quotes with RUSES (1)

The populace consists of individuals and free men, while the state is made up of numbers. When the state dominates, killing becomes abstract. Servitude began with the shepherds; in the river valleys it attained perfection with canals and dikes. Its model was the slavery in mines and mills. Since then, the ruses for concealing chains have been refined.
Ernst Junger Eumeswil
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 116 times in crossword archives (1946–2025).