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Operation In The Sting Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is SCAM which was last seen in the New York Times crossword.
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99%4Exact Match!
noun

• a fraudulent business scheme

verb

• deprive of by deceit

37%5 Undercover operation
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

34%14 Covert law enforcement tactic
noun

• a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals)

• operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act

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New York Times30 May 1981 Down 27
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