- - Deceptive move
- - Cry wolf or play possum
- - Deceptive play
- - Play possum or cry wolf
- - Ersatz brass making Charlie a thousand
- - Only pretend to coil a rope
- - initially feared acolyte knew everything was a sham
- - counterfeit thing
- - Copy religious ascetic on ecstasy, dropping one with rector
- - Like fair-weather friends
- - Like lashes and tattoos that come off
- - Counterfeit, say
- - Affected when chip lacks length
- - like many halloween costume mustaches
- - What "faux" and "ersatz" mean
- - ... news, ADS Word of the Year in 2017 which means "disinformation presented as real news"
- - Some pop star personas
- - Red Jumpsuit Apparatus "Don't You ...... It"
- - Pretend to be experiencing
- - Pretend shot
- - Political news adjective
- - Phoney (like news?)
- - Like press-on fingernails
- - Like a three-dollar bill
- - Not genuine or real
- - False
- - Like bot accounts on social media
- - Something that is not genuine
- - Fraudulent
- - Phony
- - Like C.G.I.
- - The Piltdown Man, notably
- - Art buyer's concern
- - Like an orange tan, say
- - Pretender gets to speak for missing pros
- - Embarrassment for an art curator
- - Like many Rolex watches sold on the street
- - Ersatz
- - Street vendor's Gucci, most likely
- - Not real
- - Bona fide? No
- - Word before news or fur
- - Knockoff
- - Rolex bought on the street, probably
- - Not bona fide
- - False move
- - Hoops move
- - Sham, counterfeit
- - With 66-Across, what might prompt an exclamation of disbelief
- - Art exhibit embarrassment
- - Art expert's discovery
- - Counterfeit object
- - Rip off the edges of fancy cake
- - Charlatan
- - Clifford Irving's 'Autobiography of Howard Hughes,' e.g
- - Faux ...
- - Like knockoff goods
- - Like some lashes and tans
- - Forgery
- - Certain "Antiques Roadshow" discovery
- - Like some collectibles
- - Museum embarrassment
- - Seether "...... It"
- - Handoff that isn't
- - Gridiron move
- - With 24-Across, bluff
- - What some consider the 38-Across to be
- - Not the real McCoy
- - Impostor
- - Made of paste, say
- - Embarrassment for a curator
- - Quack
- - Like some IDs
- - Imitation
- - Like some furs
- - Simulate
- - Like a flea-market Gucci, probably
- - Unreal?
- - Fabricate
- - Imposter
- - Mountebank
- - Hoax
- - Improvise, in jazz
- - Three-dollar bill
- - Four-flusher
- - QB's feint
- - Popular kind of fur
- - Phoney
- - Dissimulate.
- - Sham: Colloq.
- - Not genuine: Colloq.
- - Loop of coiled rope.
- - Fraud.
- - Quacksalver.
- - Coil (a rope).
- - Designed to deceive.
- - Counterfeit
- - Bogus
- - Not genuine
- - Sham
- - Feign.
- - "..., humbug!"
- - Gridiron maneuver.
- - Football maneuver.
- - Pretend
- - Artificial
- - Make-believe
- - Spurious
- - Like a Fauxlex watch, presumably
- - some seek a felon on reflection for forgery
- - Alaska invested in iron forge
- - Like a designer bag with the company name misspelled
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