Crossword-Solution: BACKDROP 8 letters, 34 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

We have 34 clues for the answer “BACKDROP”

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scenery hung at back of stage 1 answer
Theatrical painting. 1 answer
Stage curtain,e.g 1 answer
Stage curtain, e.g. 1 answer
Scrim, perhaps 1 answer
Scenery hung at the rear 1 answer
Having exchanged parts, withdraw stage curtain 1 answer
Painted cloth at the rear of a stage 1 answer
Stage setting often found behind the action 1 answer
Backcloth 2 answers
Piece of stage scenery. 2 answers
Piece of scenery 3 answers
Theatrical scenery 4 answers
progenitors 5 answers
Stage curtain 6 answers
Panorama 19 answers
*Fall behind 19 answers
ANCESTORS 22 answers
landscape 22 answers
upbringing 23 answers
Heritage 25 answers
Extraction 31 answers
Setting 33 answers
family tree 38 answers
Background 43 answers
Scene 51 answers
Scenery. 62 answers
placement 74 answers
ordering 78 answers
putting in order 80 answers
MAKING ready 81 answers
Game Plan 82 answers
outgrowth 89 answers
Procedure 92 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BACKDROP (5)

Whether he spoke in the Egyptian desert, before the backdrop of the Sphinx and the pyramids, or addressed his shivering men on the dew-soaked plains of Italy, made no difference.
The Story of Mankind Hendrik van Loon 1996
The land has split between a colourful, dynamic, rapacious and omnivorous class - and the sepia-like and quaint backdrop of their compatriots.
After the Rain Sam Vaknin 2002
The meeting place seems ironic, not only because of the recent no-show but also because of the overall backdrop.
Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software Sam Williams 2004
Lotus' suit, coupled with the Apple -Microsoft "look and feel" battle, provided a troublesome backdrop for the GNU Project.
Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software Sam Williams 2004
She whirled to see her mother outlined in fire and smoke against the blood-red backdrop of the Stone.
Highland Ballad Christopher Leadem 2002

Quotes with BACKDROP (3)

Enjoy every step you take. If you're curious, there is always something new to be discovered in the backdrop of your daily life.
Roy T. Bennett The Light in the Heart
This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parents--were they the stuff of Literature? At best, they might aspire to the condition of onlookers and bystanders, part of a social backdrop against which real, true, important things could happen. Like what? The things Literature was about: Love, sex, morality, friendship, happiness, suffering, betrayal, adultery, good and evil, heroes and villains, guilt and innocence, ambition, …
Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending
There's a kind of activism that's more about bolstering identity than achieving results, one that sometimes seems to make the left the true heirs of the Puritans. Puritanical in that the point becomes the demonstration of one's own virtue rather than the realization of results. And puritanical because the somber pleasure of condemning things is the most enduring part of that legacy, along with the sense of personal superiority that comes from pleasure denied. The bleakness of…
Rebecca Solnit Hope in the Dark
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 9 times in crossword archives (1955–2021).