| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| CABAL | Secret plot | |
| SCHEME | Secret plot | |
| CONSPIRACY | Secret plan, plot | |
| COMPLOT | To plot or plan together; to conspire; to join in a secret design. | |
| INTRIGUE | To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice. | |
| STRATAGEM | An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination. | |
| CONSPIRE | To make an agreement, esp. a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; to plot together. | |
| PLOT | Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous an... | |