Crossword-Solution: ACOLYTES 8 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

We have 7 clues for the answer “ACOLYTES”

Clue Answers
Altar attendants 1 answer
Clergymen's aides 1 answer
Pupils 4 answers
ALTAR BOYS 10 answers
Assistants 15 answers
Attendants 19 answers
Followers 21 answers
✏️ Suggest another clue Know another question for crossword solution "ACOLYTES"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Front part of the eye
?
C
?
O
?
R
?
N
?
E
?
A
Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ECNROA
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
30 +2

New Suggestion for "ACOLYTES"

Answer (solution)
Clue

Related word tools

Sentences with ACOLYTES (5)

His wife and I walked on either side, like two acolytes supporting a priest, and so we made our way solemnly homewards the people stopping to see us pass.
The Stark Munro Letters J. Stark Munro 1995
The great Russian has kicked away their altar and routed the false gods, whose acolytes will never forgive him.
The Ways of Men Eliot Gregory 2008
With large gestures and in the emphatic tone which made what he said so striking, Athelny described to Philip the Spanish cathedrals with their vast dark spaces, the massive gold of the altar-pieces, and the sumptuous iron-work, gilt and faded, the air laden with incense, the silence: Philip almost saw the Canons in their short surplices of lawn, the acolytes in red, passing from the sacristy to the choir; he almost heard the monotonous chanting of vespers.
Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham 1995
Manono was shelled; the Tamasese warriors, under the conduct of a Manono traitor, who paid before many days the forfeit of his blood, landed and did some damage, but were driven away by the sight of a force returning from the mainland; no one was hurt, for the women and children, who alone remained on the island, found a refuge in the bush; and the _Adler_ and her acolytes returned the same evening.
A Footnote to History Robert Louis Stevenson 2005
Here, too, come acolytes lighting the dark with tapers—sun, moon, and stars—gifts of the Lord that His sanctuary may stand ever served.
The Roadmender Michael Fairless 2013

Quotes with ACOLYTES (3)

Despite the chaos that was tearing her head apart, Tevi understood what scene Yenneg was attempting to play out, with herself as a conscripted actor. She needed to force out an explanation or denial, but no words could get past her lips. Jemeryl's presence was paralysing her, an effect far more irresistible than anything Yenneg had achieved. Tevi watched Jemeryl take another few steps forwards and then crouch down so that their eyes were no more than a foot apart. Tevi though…
Jane Fletcher The Empress And the Acolyte
What naive garbage. People don't want freedom anymore--even those to whom freedom is a kind of religion are afraid of it, like trembling acolytes who make sacrifices to some pagan god. People want their governments to keep secrets from them. They want the hand of law to be brutal. They are so terrified by their own power that they will vote to have it taken out of their hands. Look at America. Look at the sharia states. Freedom is a dead philosophy, Alif. The world is returni…
G. Willow Wilson Alif the Unseen
Interesting Avil, the priests and the acolytes of the various religions and temples of Torea build their whole lives on a lie. At first, as children they believe it. Maybe as they grow older and more wise they see the absurdness of their beliefs, but by that time they have invested time and emotional energy into those beliefs, then seeing them crumble and fall apart would be too hard for them to bear. So the protect the lie, they shore it up with more lies and they ebb out th…
Martyn Stanley The Verkreath Horror
Where this answer appears

Appears in: LAT, NYT, Onion, USA TODAY.

Used 9 times in crossword archives (1970–2019).