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Elaborate Pretense Crossword Clue

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noun

• a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades

• making a false outward show

29%8 Historical term for an elaborate but deceptive pretense
noun

• a Russian officer and politician who was a favorite of Catherine II and in 1762 helped her to seize power; when she visited the Crimea in 1787 he gave the order for sham villages to be built (1739-1791)

22%6Pretense
noun

• the face or front of a building

• a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant

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New York Times03 May 1992 Down 100
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