Somebody Who Is Made to Take the Blame

This page is the CodyCross answer for the clue below from New York, New York!, Group 370, Puzzle 2 (Saturday Night Live).

Question is: Somebody Who Is Made to Take the Blame

and the answer is: SCAPEGOAT

Word Meaning:

SCAPEGOAT — In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.

Definitions from Wiktionary.

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