Possible Clues:

• Artful deception
• Distraction intended to mislead
• Trickery as magician's prop is hidden by cigarette papers as wife disappears
• Trickery
• Deception produced by most of those in 26 across and 8 across going to school
• Somehow miss nod or remark providing misleading information
• Deception, so to speak
• Doormen risk arms in order to create deception
• Person's make-up turning up in cigarette paper's something misleading
• Deception facilitator