Crossword-Solution: ATAVISTS
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ATAVISTS (5)
The atavists are not, as in the case of the poppies, obviously allied with the type by a full range of intermediate steps, but quite distant from it by their rarity.
There seems to be a gap in the same way as between the striped flowers of the snapdragon and their uniform red atavists, while with the poppies the atavists may be viewed as being only the extremes of a series of variations fluctuating around some average type.
From this reason it is as interesting to appreciate the hereditary position of the atavists of twisted varieties as it was for the red-flowered descendants of the striped flowers.
Obviously the divergences between these figures are too slight to be dwelt upon, but the fact that the atavists are as true or nearly as true inheritors of the twisted race as the best selected individuals is clearly proved by this experience.
The fact that the worst atavists may have the highest percentage of varietal units seems to leave no room for another explanation.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Universal.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1999–2003).