Crossword-Solution: ASPIDISTRA
We have 12 clues for the answer “ASPIDISTRA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BRITISH indoor plant | 1 answer |
| The cast-iron plant. | 1 answer |
| a house plant | 1 answer |
| liliaceae | 2 answers |
| Common house plant | 3 answers |
| Common houseplant | 4 answers |
| FOLIAGE plant | 8 answers |
| HOUSE plant | 11 answers |
| Lily | 23 answers |
| BRITISH plant | 51 answers |
| ASIAN plant | 54 answers |
| Plant | 98 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ASPIDISTRA (5)
The open inner door showed a bright linoleum on the floor, and the end of a brown side-board on which stood an aspidistra.
There was no greater pleasure than to set themselves to achieve some magnificent object—as, for instance, to buy a china flower-pot, which could stand on the window-sill and contain an aspidistra.
There were amber silk sashes to the Nottingham lace curtains at the huge bow window and an amber winding sheet was wrapped about the terra cotta pot in which a tired aspidistra bore forth a yearly leaf.
Since the plants are likely to be injured in porch-boxes, and since these boxes should have some architectural effect, it is well to use abundantly of rather heavy greenery, such as swordfern (the common form of _Nephrolepis exaltata_) or the Boston fern, _Asparagus Sprengeri_, wandering jew, the large drooping vinca (perhaps the variegated form), aspidistra.
She was very short and small and frail-looking, and wore a cap--for the same reason no doubt that she kept an aspidistra in the dining-room window, went to church at eleven o'clock on Sundays, and had given birth to Agatha and Albert.
Quotes with ASPIDISTRA (2)
What he realised, and more clearly as time went on, was that money-worship has been elevated into a religion. Perhaps it is the only real religion-the only felt religion-that is left to us. Money is what God used to be. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success. Hence the profoundly significant phrase, to make good. The decalogue has been reduced to two commandments. One for the employers-the elect, the money priesthood as it were- 'Thou shalt make m…
She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1963).