The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word DECEITFUL
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result DECEITFUL
- Sneaky compiler enters deft clue, originally
- Fraudulent cutie fled in disarray
- Cute, if led astray, becoming two-faced
- Exceptionally deft clue I made up
- Unusually deft clue about one involved in fraud
- Lying revealed in deft clue I compiled
- Deft clue I composed to be misleading
- Deft clue I misjudged? It’s misleading
- When corrected, fetid clue is false
- Wasted futile month at first by lying
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What does DECEITFUL mean?
DECEITFUL adjective- Deliberately misleading or cheating.
- Deceptive, two-faced.