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Answer for the clue "Communicate what wrong answer may do ", 10 letters:
get across

Word definitions for get across in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive intransitive English) To cross; to move from one side (of something) to the other, literally or figuratively. 2 (context transitive English) To make an idea evident; to successfully explain a thought or feeling; put over.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. communicate successfully; "I couldn't get across the message"; "He put over the idea very well" [syn: put over ] become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions; "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow" [syn: ...

Usage examples of get across.

If you have been to the others, you know we have a message to get across, but we haven't bothered you with speeches.

What I had to do was to get across to Liverpool by the shortest open road, there to meet my heavy baggage and embark.

While, as you say, they could be elaborated upon, your descriptions were more than sufficient to get across the important elements.

And this time, I think he will get across the obstacle to his front.

The protection for the rest of us is to use that same Bill of Rights to get across to every citizen the indispensability of the Bill of Rights.

If she could get across the pasture unseen, she would be invisible.

What bothered her so much in Domingo's attitude and behavior, what made her still feel certain that some disaster was impending, would be very difficult to get across to anyone else.

In case the idea didn't get across, he spat through the bars onto the major's tunic.