| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| RUSES | Artifices | |
| PRACTICE | To try artifices or stratagems. | |
| CHICANE | To use shifts, cavils, or artifices. | |
| COURT-CRAFT | The artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts. | |
| CIRCUMVENTIVE | Tending to circumvent; deceiving by artifices; deluding. | |
| FILIBUSTER | To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices. | |
| CONVEYER | One given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief. | |
| CABAL | The secret artifices or machinations of a few persons united in a close design; intrigue. | |
| WARY | Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful. | |
| AVAIL | To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment. | |
| ENTRAP | To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in c... | |