Cops Crook Catching Hoax Crossword Clue

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Updated: October 11, 2023

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	noun • a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung • a mental pain or distress • a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin • a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property • operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act verb • cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort • deliver a sting to • saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous • cause a stinging pain • cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
	25%	11		Hauled in by the cops
	adjective satellite • fully understood or grasped
	25%	10		Rod used by cops
	noun • a short stout club used primarily by policemen

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New York Times09 Feb 2016	Across 64
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