Answer: PRETEXT
The answer PRETEXT has 57 possible clues. See the results below.
Possible Clues:
- Ostensible motive
- Excuse given before the words in the book
- Excuse for an action
- Supposed purpose
- Specious Excuse
- False reason as justification for an action
- Excuse offered before main body of book?
- Justification, excuse
- Reason put forward to conceal the true one
- Ostensible reason for a written introduction?
Last seen in:
- The Times - Concise - Times Concise No 9538
- The Telegraph - QUICK CROSSWORD NO: 30,561 - Mar 14 2024
- The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2583
- The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2579
- The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28582
- The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28582
- The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 30,123 - Oct 20 2022
- The Telegraph - QUICK CROSSWORD NO: 30,098 - Sep 21 2022
- The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 28,795 - Jun 28 2022
- The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 28,604 - Nov 16 2021