The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word CHEATS
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More clues leading to the result CHEATS
- Tricks won in clubs and hearts, without a king
- Gossip magazine, inside: ‘Extremely Careless Adulterers‘
- Cougars will accept he does
- Does a hundred preliminary events
- Man in musical is a fraud
- Rule-breakers in Civil Service full of passion
- Does hot food, following starter of chicken
- . Acts dishonestly, gets caught at preliminary races
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The straight part
We know that "Acts dishonestly" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case acts dishonestly = cheats.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does CHEATS mean?
CHEATS verb- To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
- To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
- To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
- To deceive; to fool; to trick.
- Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
- An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
- The weed cheatgrass.
- A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
- A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat code.