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Swindle As Rascal Extracting Last Penny Crossword Clue

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noun

• a fraudulent business scheme

verb

• deprive of by deceit

33%4Rascal, no-good rascal
noun

• a dissolute man in fashionable society

29%4 It's a swindle to put a penny on farm butter
noun

• an inclined surface connecting two levels

• North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers

• a movable staircase that passengers use to board or leave an aircraft

verb

• behave violently, as if in state of a great anger

• furnish with a ramp

• be rampant

• creep up -- used especially of plants

• stand with arms or forelegs raised, as if menacing

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