Crossword-Solution: BURBS 5 letters, 27 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

We have 27 clues for the answer “BURBS”

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City's outskirts, for short 1 answer
Outer areas 1 answer
Homes of commuters, informally 1 answer
Homes for many commuters 1 answer
Home turf for many commuters, with "the" 1 answer
Home to many commuters, slangily 1 answer
Home to many commuters 1 answer
Commuters' towns, for short 1 answer
Sprawl creation, informally 1 answer
Commuters' home, often 1 answer
Commuter towns, for short 1 answer
Sprawling areas outside of cities, casually 1 answer
City outskirts, briefly 1 answer
1989 Tom Hanks film with The 1 answer
1989 Tom Hanks comedy, with "The" 1 answer
1989 Tom Hanks black comedy, with "The" 1 answer
"Desperate Housewives" setting 1 answer
The ___ (area outside a city) 1 answer
Urban surroundings 1 answer
With "The," Tom Hanks film of '89 1 answer
Commuters' home, perhaps 2 answers
City's outskirts 2 answers
Outlying area, for short 2 answers
Outlying areas 3 answers
BOSLEY, TOM FILM 10 answers
DICILLO, TOM FILM 10 answers
COURTENAY, TOM FILM 10 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Just for a while": Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with minor luxuries and ensnared you with long-term payment plans. Join the Rat Race "just for a while." Concentrate on your career "just for a while." Move in with your girlfriend "just for a while." Find a bigger place, out in the burbs "just for a while." Lie down in that wooden box "just for a while.
Christopher Brookmyre A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away
Nobody should have to put their boxers in a half rotted chest of drawers.”“Hey. I’ll have you know that the rustic look is very popular in the burbs.”“Rustic?” Chase snorted. “Is that your way of saying termite infested?”“This furniture does not have termites. Mice maybe, even moths, but not termites.”“Great, I can look forward to having a swiss cheese wardrobe.
Adrienne Wilder Seven
Maybe it wasn’t rational, but she didn’t like the idea of Leo invading her little world. Yesterday, Brooklyn had belonged to her. The Long Island ’burbs where she’d grown up had felt far away from the brick streets and renovated factory spaces of Brooklyn. In this job, she’d felt truly independent, putting down her own fragile roots in a new place. Fast forward twenty-four hours, and her daddy had joined the workplace and her ex-boyfriend had shown up to remind her of all tha…
Sarina Bowen Rookie Move
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, S&S, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 27 times in crossword archives (1997–2025).