Crossword-Solution: ALUM 4 letters, 448 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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Word Word Type Definition
Alum n. A double sulphate formed of aluminium and some other element
(esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of
water of crystallization.
Alum v. t. To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of
alum; to treat with alum.

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Word Anagrams
ALUM anagram AMUL, LAMU, LUMA, MAUL, MULA, ULAM

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"Class of" person, for short 1 answer
"The Penn Stater" recipient 1 answer
'00 class member, e.g. 1 answer
'00 class member, now 1 answer
'03 class member, now 1 answer
'04 class member, e.g. 1 answer
'06 class member, e.g. 1 answer
'07 class member, e.g. 1 answer
'08 class member, e.g. 1 answer
'08 classmate, now 1 answer
'10 grad now, e.g. 1 answer
'10 or '11 person, now 1 answer
'12 or '13, now 1 answer
'18 honoree, today 1 answer
Former student, for short 1 answer
Former student of a school, informally 1 answer
A double sulfate. 1 answer
A double sulphate. 1 answer
A salt used in styptic pencils. 1 answer
A styptic 1 answer
ASTRINGENT substance 1 answer
Adam Sandler, to "Saturday Night Live" 1 answer
Admissions interviewer, often 1 answer
Aluminum potassium sulfate 1 answer
American returnee? 1 answer
An astringent 1 answer
Any one of the eight members of "The Group" (Mary McCarthy) 1 answer
Application to a cut 1 answer
Astringent compound 1 answer
Astringent or emetic 1 answer
Astringent or styptic 1 answer
Astringent stuff 1 answer
Astringent used in tanning and dyeing 1 answer
Baking-power ingredient 1 answer
Bard grad, e.g. 1 answer
Compound used in pickling and dyeing 1 answer
Bill or Hillary vis- -vis Yale 1 answer
Bitter substance used in dyes. 1 answer
Bitter substance. 1 answer
Blood clotter 1 answer
Blood clotting material 1 answer
Booster Club mem. 1 answer
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Booster, at times 1 answer
Booster, frequently 1 answer
Booster, often 1 answer
Booster, perhaps 1 answer
Campus dorm's donor, often 1 answer
Campus returnee 1 answer
Campus returnee, familiarly 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ALUM (5)

And being of a noticing habit, he also observed that when Weintraub had occasion to write out a label for a box of powdered alum Mrs.
The Haunted Bookshop Christopher Morley 2008
Mother gathered the fanciest every fall, dried them, and dipped them in melted alum coloured with copperas, aniline, and indigo.
Laddie Gene Stratton-Porter 2008
Far down in the east a small black smudge upon the pearl-colored and vaporous horizon was all they could discern of a walled city filled with factories for the working of hemp and furs and alum and silk and bitumen.
The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 2008
But I vow your hair looks better as it is.” “Not so yours,” said she, like lightning; “‘twould look better to me hanging on the belt of one of them red devils.” In the morning, when he would have lifted the pack of alum salt, Polly Ann gave him a push that sent him sprawling.
The Crossing Winston Churchill 1995
This was said to be salt--which in Japan is credited with great cleansing properties--but as far as could be ascertained by superficial examination it was a mixture of alum and salt.
The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé Harry Houdini 1996

Quotes with ALUM (3)

Greed and our food supply. It is greed that compels dairymen to skim every bit of goodness from milk to make other products and then to fill the swill left with chalk and sell it at profit. Greed tempts butchers to grind up the meat of sick cows with well ones and mix it into sausage along with offal and dung to extend the amount of 'meat' that they can sell. Greed motivates bakers to use flour devoid of the wheat germ and the nutritious outer husk and to add alum and chlorin…
Lynn Cullen Mrs. Poe
Whether people agree or disagree with the decisions an actor makes after their Disney tenure, every alum has a clear vision of how they want their career to pan out.
Cameron Boyce
I'm an avid University of Miami Hurricanes fan. I hope to come to the day where I can still do some stuff for NBC and somehow integrate it with an RV tour of the South for college football. Luckily, my wife, she's a Florida State alum, so I wouldn't have to talk her into it. I think our kids would think we're weird.
Chuck Todd
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 946 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).