Crossword-Solution: ALLIGATORS
We have 11 clues for the answer “ALLIGATORS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Creatures that can regrow a lost tooth up to 50 times | 1 answer |
| Crocodile cousins | 1 answer |
| Denizens of New York City sewers, per an urban legend | 1 answer |
| Large reptiles found in swamps and marshes | 1 answer |
| Florida lake invaders | 1 answer |
| Kin of the caiman | 1 answer |
| Long-jawed Florida reptiles | 1 answer |
| Machines with strong jaws. | 1 answer |
| Reptiles protected by law | 1 answer |
| Hepcats | 2 answers |
| Everglades denizens | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ALLIGATORS (5)
But this hard body might be a bony carapace, like that of the antediluvian animals; and I should be free to class this monster among amphibious reptiles, such as tortoises or alligators.
Was not he, too--he thought naively--a poor Tarzan of the advertising jungle, lost among the elephants and alligators of commerce, and sighing for this dainty and unattainable vision of girlhood that had burst upon his burning gaze! He stole a perilous side-glance at her profile, and saw the racing flicker of the screen reflected in tiny spangles of light that danced in her eyes.
Still more shadowy were the sinister crocodilian outlines—alligators and other uncouth shapes, culminating in the colossal lizard, the iguanodon.
Couldn't you bring back some baby alligators and a pelican? Anything alive will be gratefully received.
Once, when an odd-looking craft, with a vast coal-scuttle slanting aloft on the end of a beam, was steaming by in the distance, he indifferently drew attention to it, as one might to an object grown wearisome through familiarity, and observed that it was an 'alligator boat.' 'An alligator boat? What's it for?' 'To dredge out alligators with.' 'Are they so thick as to be troublesome?' 'Well, not now, because the Government keeps them down.
Quotes with ALLIGATORS (3)
New York! I say New York, let black blood flow into your blood. Let it wash the rust from your steel joints, like an oil of life Let it give your bridges the curve of hips and supple vines. Now the ancient age returns, unity is restored, The recociliation of the Lion and Bull and Tree Idea links to action, the ear to the heart, sign to meaning. See your rivers stirring with musk alligators And sea cows with mirage eyes. No need to invent the Sirens. Just open your eyes to the…
The Marquis sighed. "I thought it was just a legend," he said. "Like the alligators in the sewers of New York City." Old Bailey nodded, sagely: "What, the big white buggers? They're down there. I had a friend lost a head to one of them." A moment of silence. Old Naeiley handed the statue back to the Marquis. Then he raised his hand, and snapped it, like a crocodile hand, at the Carabas. "It was OK," gurned Old Bailey with a grin that was most terrible to behold. "He had another.
And at that moment the alligators burst into the room.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1963–2023).