Deserter, Turncoat Crossword Clue

Deserter, turncoat crossword clue. A quick crossword puzzle question in The Dominion Post newspaper on Thursday, 20 July 2017. 8 letters.

Answer: RENEGADE

A renegade is a person who deserts and betrays an organization, country, or set of principles.

Example:

He developed four well-defined characters in the process – a country farmer, Ezekiel Biglow, and his son Hosea; the Rev. Homer Wilbur, a shrewd old-fashioned country minister; and Birdofredum Sawin, a Northern renegade who enters the army, together with one or two subordinate characters; and his stinging satire and sly humour are so set forth in the vernacular of New England as to give at once a historic dignity to this form of speech.