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The Clue

Be behind a lawbreaker (4 letter answer)

The Answer

ABET

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Notes

The answer ABET is very common and appears about once every 40 puzzles.

Related Clues

Encourage
Foment
Help
Incite
Instigate
"Not on ___!"
Urge on
Advance the cause of
Aid in a crime
Aid in crime
Aid a criminal
Aid's partner
Assist arsonists
Assist a felon
Assist illegally
Assist a prankster
Assist in wrongdoing
Assist a yegg
Back up
Coach a thief
Encourage a criminal
Encourage a felon
Encourage in iniquity
Foster a felon
Help in crime
Help with the heist
Help at a holdup
Help a hood
Help with a prank
Partner of aid
Play the henchman
Promote peccancy
Support a scoundrel
Support sedition
Support in skullduggery
Act as lookout, say
Assist, usually nefariously
Foster fiendish acts
Give relief to a thief
Help in holding up
Look out for, say
Promote felonious acts
Support when one shouldn't
Get hush money from, for instance

Definition

ABET as a verb:

1. assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing