Crossword-Solution: ASPHODEL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Asphodel | n. | A general name for a plant of the genus Asphodelus. The asphodels are hardy perennial plants, several species of which are cultivated for the beauty of their flowers. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “ASPHODEL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "That greeny flower" in a William Carlos Williams poem | 1 answer |
| Daffodil | 1 answer |
| Flower said to cover the plains of Hades | 1 answer |
| MEDITERRANEAN liliaceous plant | 1 answer |
| Scottish asphodel | 1 answer |
| plant with clusters of yellow or white flowers | 1 answer |
| white asphodel | 1 answer |
| INDIAN liliaceous plant | 2 answers |
| Liliaceous plant | 4 answers |
| Narcissus. | 4 answers |
| MEDITERRANEAN plant | 11 answers |
| Plant of the lily family | 15 answers |
| Indian plant | 35 answers |
| yellow-flowered plant | 41 answers |
| BRITISH plant | 51 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ASPHODEL (5)
Her hand he seis’d, and to a shadie bank, Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowr’d He led her nothing loath; Flours were the Couch, Pansies, and Violets, and Asphodel, And Hyacinth, Earths freshest softest lap.
One saw young chevaliers, blue-eyed, of elemental beauty and purity; women with crowns, gold girdles, and cloudy wimples; young girls, entrancing in their loveliness, wearing snow-white kerchiefs, their golden hair unbound and flowing, dressed in white samite, bearing armfuls of flowers; the whole procession defiling against a background of forest glades, venerable oaks, half-hidden fountains, and fields of asphodel and roses.
The asphodel is at least no falsifier, but a true lily by all the heaven-set marks, though small of flower and run mostly to leaves, and should have a name that gives it credit for growing up in such celestial semblance.
The Poetess of Reform One pleasant day in the latter part of eternity, as the Shades of all the great writers were reposing upon beds of asphodel and moly in the Elysian fields, each happy in hearing from the lips of the others nothing but copious quotation from his own works (for so Jove had kindly bedeviled their ears), there came in among them with triumphant mien a Shade whom none knew.
And here is a treasure from France la belle Exhaleth a faint perfume Of wedded lily and asphodel In a garden of song abloom.
Quotes with ASPHODEL (3)
The main thing about ghosts — most of them have lost their voices. In Asphodel, millions of them wander around aimlessly, trying to remember who they were. You know why they end up like that? Because in life they never took a stand one way or another. They never spoke out, so they were never heard. Your voice is your identity. If you don’t use it,’ Nico said with a shrug, ‘you’re halfway to Asphodel already.’…He hated when his own advice applied to himself.
I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.
Your voice is your identity. If you don't use it, your halfway to Asphodel already.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, S&S.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1963–2018).