Crossword-Solution: ACTON 5 letters, 158 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Acton	n.	A stuffed jacket worn under the mail, or (later) a jacket plated with mail.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
ACTON	anagram	CANOT, CANTO, CATON, COTAN, NOACT, OCTAN, TONCA

We have 158 clues for the answer “ACTON”

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"Absolute power corrupts absolutely" writer	1 answer
"Absolute power corrupts..." coiner	1 answer
"Power tends to corrupt . . ." writer	1 answer
"Power tends to corrupt ..." speaker	1 answer
A London suburb	1 answer
Anne Bronte's pseudonym	1 answer
Anne Bronte, a.k.a. -- Bell	1 answer
Bay State city	1 answer
Be motivated by	1 answer
British historian, d. 1902	1 answer
Bronte's Bell	1 answer
Carry further	1 answer
Cromwellian city	1 answer
Decide according to	1 answer
Do something in response to	1 answer
Don't ignore, as advice	1 answer
English historian: 1834-1902	1 answer
Exert influence over	1 answer
Exert power.	1 answer
Follow a Info	1 answer
Follow through with	1 answer
Follow, as a hunch	1 answer
Follow, as a lead	1 answer
Follow, as a recommendation	1 answer
Follow, as a suggestion	1 answer
Follow, as a tip	1 answer
Follow, as an impulse	1 answer
Function in accord with.	1 answer
Function in regard to.	1 answer
Get at the issue	1 answer
Give a decision	1 answer
Give in to, as an impulse	1 answer
Give in to, as an urge	1 answer
He said "All power corrupts . . . "	1 answer
Historian Lord	1 answer
Hockeyist Keith	1 answer
Implement, as feedback	1 answer
Jacket plated with steel	1 answer
Locale in western London	1 answer
Lord ___, British historian	1 answer
Lord ___, English historian	1 answer
Lord ___, commenter on power	1 answer
Lord ___, who said, "All power corrupts."	1 answer
Lord who said "Absolute power corrupts absolutely"	1 answer
Massachusetts town in Middlesex County	1 answer
Medieval knight's garment	1 answer
Middlesex town	1 answer
More than just take seriously	1 answer
Move decisively	1 answer
Old English borough, now part of London	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

EAERT

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with ACTON (5)

And Charlotte put out her arms and drew the Baroness toward her; while Robert Acton turned away, with his hands stealing into his pockets.

The Europeans Henry James 1994

The murder of a white family near Acton, Minnesota, by a party of Indian duck hunters in August, 1862, precipitated the break.

Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman 2008

Acton, was a delightful old _esprit fort_, as I knew her in the sixties, “pagan, I regret to say,” but not a little resembling her brother in the point and manner of her wit.

A. W. Kinglake W. Tuckwell 2013

They've killed Captain Davis, from Acton." "You don't say so!" "Yes, they have, and--" "I say, Joe Devins, go down and do-do something.

Twilight Stories Various 1996

Promoted a short time previous to the governorship of the Westward Islands, Acton Hague had died, in the bleak honour of this exile, of an illness consequent on the bite of a poisonous snake.

The Altar of the Dead Henry James 2010

Quotes with ACTON (3)

I believe in political equality. But there are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of the commonwealth, and so wise that the commonwealth needs their advice. That is, in my opinion, the false, romantic doctrine of democracy. On the other hand, you may believe fallen men to be so wicked that not one of them can be trusted with any irresponsible power over his fellows. That I believe to be the true…

C. S. Lewis The Weight of Glory

Uncle Acton spent the whole of his working life in India, for the simple reason that he gave up work very young.

Rosemary Sutcliff Blue Remembered Hills: A Recollection

Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton

Harold Holzer Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 248 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).