Secret Plotting or Underhand Scheming

This page is the CodyCross answer for the clue below from Workshop, Group 2247, Puzzle 2 (Welding Helmet).

Question is: Secret Plotting or Underhand Scheming

and the answer is: INTRIGUE

Word Meaning:

INTRIGUE — A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to affect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.

Definitions from Wiktionary.