- FAKE
- Ersatz
- Faux
- ___ news
- Three-dollar bill
- Bogus
- Not the real McCoy
- Charlatan
- Counterfeit
- Made of paste, say
- Go one way and then the other, say
- See 56-Across
- Hoax
- Quack
- Imposter
- Impostor
- Simulate
- Play possum or cry wolf
- Imitation
- Cry wolf or play possum
- Phony
- Pretend
- Sham
- Like some collectibles
- Unreal
- Fabricate
- Feign
- Knockoff
- Art expert's discovery
- False move
- Hoops move
- Art buyer's concern
- The Piltdown Man, notably
- Fraudulent
- Expert's discovery
- Art world fraud
- Deceptive move
- Certain "Antiques Roadshow" discovery
- Not genuine
- Counterfeit thing
- Gridiron move
- Humbug.
- Designed to deceive.
- Coil (a rope).
- Quacksalver.
- Loop of coiled rope.
- Mountebank.
- Fraud.
- Sham: Colloq.
- Football maneuver.
- Make-believe.
- Dissimulate.
- Phoney
- Popular kind of fur
- QB's feint
- Four-flusher
- Not real
- Improvise, in jazz
- Spurious
- Like some furs
- Deceptive play
- Like a flea-market Gucci, probably
- What some consider the 38-Across to be
- With 24-Across, bluff
- Handoff that isn't
- Forgery
- Like knockoff goods
- Like some lashes and tans
- Clifford Irving's "Autobiography of Howard Hughes," e.g.
- Embarrassment for an art curator
- Like many Rolex watches sold on the street
- Like an orange tan, say
- Like C.G.I.
- Like bot accounts on social media
- Like some plants that don't need watering
- Like some IDs
- Seether "___ It"
- How bad C.G.I. looks
- Bona fide? No
- Like fair-weather friends
- Like lashes and tattoos that come off
- With 68-Across, deceive ... or a hint to how the spellings of the starred clues' answers were formed?
- Gridiron maneuver
- Museum embarrassment
- Not bona fide
- Street vendor's Gucci, most likely
- Word before news or fur
- Embarrassment for a curator
- Art exhibit embarrassment
- Rolex bought on the street, probably
- Like a three-dollar bill
