| DEFRAUD | Cheat or swindle |
| GYP | Cheat or swindle (3) |
| CHISEL | Cheat or swindle (6) |
| DIDDLE | Cheat or swindle, informally (6) |
| DIDDLES | Cheats or swindles (7) |
| RIPOFF | Slang for a cheap, illegal or inferior imitation; a grossly overpriced thing; a robbery, theft or a stolen article; or, a con trick, fraud or swindle (3-3) |
| FLIMFLAM | Confidence trick or swindle; or, when hyphenated, an old name for whiff-whaff or Ping-Pong (8) |
| HUSTLE | Word, from "shake, toss", for hurly-burly or frenzied activity; a fraud, street con or swindle; or, an energetic "get-up-and-go" disco dance (6) |
| TRICK | Medieval word derived from Old French meaning "to cheat or deceive"; an illusory or puzzling feat; a characteristic habit or trait; or, a sailor's shift at the helm (5) |
| COG | A gearwheel or sprocket; one of its teeth; or, a deception or trick, from the old slang of a card cheat or a thief (3) |
| CHEAT | Trick or swindle (5) |
| SCAM | A fiddle or swindle (4) |
| SKIN | Fleece or swindle, colloquially speaking? |
| VISOR | Face protection racket or swindle in village: heads must roll! |
| FLEECE | Overcharge or swindle folk with a sheep's woolly coat (6) |
| SHARKS | People who unscrupulously exploit or swindle others (6) |
| CHISELS | Wood-shaping tools - or swindles (7) |
| ROOK | A gregarious caching corvid whose Latin name, Corvus frugilegus, means "fruit-gathering raven"; or, a card-sharp, cheat or chess piece that shares its name (4) |
| ETHICAL | Unlikely to cheat or steal |
| TWIST | Cheat, or fool, the second into (5) |
