Related Clues:

• Secret plan
• Cabal's creation
• Schemer's hatching
• Whodunit blueprint
• Surface for gardening
• Conspire (against)
• Misleading trick
• ''The ___ thickens''
• Swindler's scheme
• Plot deviously
• Crafty stratagem
• Deceptive ploy
• It thickens after a while
• Collude
• Small area of ground