| Clue | Length | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| "... ... protest too much" | 4 letters | doth |
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| "... ... protest too much" | 7 letters | pretext |
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| "... ... protest too much" | 7 letters | pretend |
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| "... ... protest too much" | 7 letters | profess |
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| "... ... protest too much" | 7 letters | purport |
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- Shakespearean verb
- Biblical verb
- "The lady ...... protest ...
- "How then ...... he now see?
- Obsolete auxiliary
- Performs, for King James
- "How ...... the little busy
- Does understand others partly
- Performs, to the Bard
- "... ... protest too much"
- "The lady — protest too much"
- "the lady ... protest ... ": "hamlet"
- "How ... the little busy bee..."
- "How then ... he now see?: John 9:19"
- Archaic auxiliary
- Does once?
- "How ...... the lady?": Shak.
- "Ant for ant ...... long": Theocritus
- Does: Poet.
- Bible verb
- over an hour spot does, very old
- Biblical verb form
- An old-fashioned do
- Period historian initially does once
- Performs in 'Hamlet'
- Simulated
- Make-believe
- Role-play, say
- Pressure on nurse to present claim
- Kids .... to be someone else
- Pressure on nurse to simulate
- Dissemble
- Suppose injured rep needs nurse
- Simulate pressure on mind
- Nurse in advance, let's suppose?
- Feign
- Play imaginatively
- Pressure on nurse to fake it
- make believe to be a claimant
- like nine, a big number to imagine
- dubiously claim to nurse beforehand
- To make believe
- Like nine, a number put on
- Fake rep upset nurse
- Put on an act
- Play make-believe
- Act
- Simulate
- Play a role
- Play act
- Put on pressure dealing with nurse
- Imagine French ready to settle
- Pressure on nurse to carry on sham
- Fake it
- Imaginary
- Put on an act in front of nurse
- Lay claim before nurse
- be inclined beforehand to sham
- Falsely claim to nurse in advance?
- Profess
- Affect
- Assume
- Declare
- Like
- Take
- Give false appearance
- What all actors do
- What all actors have to do
- Wear
- Pose as, pretend
- Engage in an imaginative game
- Feign, put on a show; fake
- act a part
- Adopt-......
- Aim (to)
- Allege
- Appropriate
- Arrogate
- Attempt
- Attempt (to)
- Avow
- Bluff
- Challenge
- Claim
- Counterfeit
- Cover up
- ...... dare
- dare to
- dissimulate
- do-a-bit
- Dramatize
- Encroach
- Endeavor
- Fake
- four flush
- Gammon
- Hazard
- histrionize
- Infringe
- Invade
- lay claim to
- Let on
- let on like
- make a pretense
- make as if
- make bold
- make free
- Make like
- Make out
- make-out-like
- Overact
- Play-......
- play God
- Play a part
- play-a-scene
- play possum
- playact
- Presume
- pretend to
- Pretext
- "... ... protest too much"
- Purport
- Put on
- put-on-airs
- Represent
- seek to
- Seize,
- Sham
- Strive (to)
- study to
- Take over
- take the liberty
- Trespass
- Try
- try and
- try to
- tug the heartstrings
- Undertake
- Usurp
- Venture
- Venture (to)
- assume rep upset nurse
- imagine each upsetting nurse
- suppose rep upset nurse
- Imaginary priest is missing finale
- feign to nurse beforehand
- Simulated pressure on nurse
- Excuse
- Front page has concerning message
- Specious excuse
- False reason
- Subterfuge
- Supposed reason
- False excuse
- Ostensible motive
- Excuse, often false
- excuse before written material
- ostensible reason
- excuse before biblical quotation
- Writing on page about excuse
- Excuse expert fabricated ahead of time
- An excuse for a foreword perhaps
- Ostensible motive, excuse
- Pretence
- Shift
- Contrivance
- Appearance
- Screen
- Ruse
- Cover
- Hypocrisy
- Before writing a dodgy excuse
- Window dressing
- Why
- "Wherefore?"
- What for
- Way out
- Acting
- Affectation
- Alibi
- Allege
- Alternative
- attitudinizing
- Avow
- Bluff
- bluffing
- Camouflage
- Cheating
- Choice
- Claim
- Cloak
- Color
- Coloring
- Cover story?
- Deception
- Delusion
- Disguise
- dissemblance
- Dissembling
- Dissimulation
- Escape clause
- escape-hatch
- Explanation
- Facade
- Face
- Fakery
- faking
- false air
- False front
- False show
- Falsity
- Feigning
- Feint
- four flushing
- Fraud
- Front
- Gilt
- Gloss
- Guise
- "......, humbug!"
- humbuggery
- Imposture
- Loophole
- Masquerade
- meretriciousness
- Ostentation
- Outward show
- playacting
- Plea
- POSE
- Posing
- Posture
- Pretend
- Pretense
- Pretension
- Profess
- "... ... protest too much"
- Purport
- rational ground
- Rationale
- Rationalization
- Reason
- reason for
- Reason why
- Red herring
- Representation
- Right
- saving-clause
- Seeming
- Semblance
- Sham
- Show ......
- Simulacrum
- simulation
- speciousness
- stated cause
- “... the big idea?”
- the idea
- the whatfor
- the wherefore
- the why
- underlying reason
- Varnish
- veil
- way of escape
- An excuse offered
- False excuse, ruse
- Specious excuse before phone message
- Claim
- Affirm
- lay claim to
- Claim, announce, declare
- Make open declaration of
- say openly
- Claim openly
- openly state
- Declare
- Affirm openly
- Aver
- state of being in force
- Avow
- Declare openly
- Claim of the journalists covering it
- Declare belief
- Make a clean breast of being in press
- Claim of being involved in the Press
- fanciful female academic's claim
- Claim to have put in the cupboard of
- Claim openly to have
- Pretend
- Acknowledge
- Avouch
- Feign
- Claim of the papers suppressing it
- Act
- act a part
- Affect
- Allege
- Announce
- annunciate
- Argue
- Assert
- assever
- Asseverate
- Assume
- Bluff
- Confess
- Confirm
- Contend
- Counterfeit
- Cover up
- Depose
- Dissemble
- dissimulate
- enunciate
- ...... Express
- express the belief
- Fake
- four flush
- Gammon
- Have
- Hold
- "...... insist!"
- issue a manifesto
- Lay down
- Let on
- let on like
- Maintain
- make a pretense
- make as if
- Make-believe
- Make like
- manifesto
- Offer?
- Play-......
- Play a part
- play possum
- playact
- Predicate
- Present
- Pretext
- Proclaim
- Proffer
- Pronounce
- Protest
- "... ... protest too much"
- Purport
- Put
- Put forward
- put it
- Put on
- "Say ......"
- Set down
- Set forth
- Sham
- Simulate
- ...... speak
- Speak out
- Speak up?
- Stand for
- stand on
- ......-state
- Submit
- Swear
- Tender
- Utter
- Vow
- Warrant
- declare academic has no gold
- Claim that academic has no alternative
- Claim
- Signify
- Intended meaning
- Meaning, substance
- Implied meaning
- Main idea
- claim to turn up, right and left
- Profess
- Significance
- Tenor
- Claim (to be)
- ...... sense
- Meaning
- Import
- Drift
- Perception
- Portend
- Design
- Signification
- Tendency
- Pose as, pretend
- Academic
- acceptation
- affective meaning
- Aim
- aim at
- Allege
- aspire after
- Aspire (to)
- Avow
- Be after
- Bearing
- Burden
- Coloring
- Connotation
- Consequence
- Core
- denotation
- Desire
- Destine
- Determine
- Drive at
- Effect
- Essence
- Extension
- Force
- Gist
- Go (for)
- grammatical meaning
- harbor a design
- have every intention
- "...... idea!"
- Impact
- Implication
- Intend
- intendment
- intension
- lexical meaning
- literal meaning
- "...... matter"
- Mean
- Meat
- ...... message
- Ostensible
- Overtone
- Pertinence
- Pith
- Plan
- Point
- postulated
- practical consequence
- presupposed