Crossword-Solution: ANANSI
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ANANSI | anagram | INSANA |
We have 1 clue for the answer “ANANSI”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Trickster god of African lore | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ANANSI (2)
Anansi (grotesquely disguised sometimes as Aunt Nancy) is a hairy old man with claws, who outwits the lesser creatures, as Br'er Rabbit does.
Nevertheless, it seems to me these good people have differentiated their religion in the West Indies considerably; for example, in Obeah the spider (_anansi_) has a position given it equal to that of the snake in Voudou.
Quotes with ANANSI (3)
You know, one time I saw Tiger down at the water hole: he had the biggest testicles of any animal, and the sharpest claws, and two front teeth as long as knives and as sharp as blades. And I said to him, Brother Tiger, you go for a swim, I’ll look after your balls for you. He was so proud of his balls. So he got into the water hole for a swim, and I put his balls on, and left him my own little spider balls. And then, you know what I did? I ran away, fast as my legs would take…
Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look so pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each. What’s that? You want to know if Anansi looked like a spider? Sure he did, except when he looked like a man. No, he never changed his shape. It’s just a matter of how you tell the story. That’s all.
Saul was going to kill Anansi. They both knew it. Saul was going to kill Anansi and Loplop and King Rat, and Saul was going to die, all in an effort to prove that he was not his rat-father's son.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2006).