Crossword-Solution: BURGLAR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Burglar | n. | One guilty of the crime of burglary. |
We have 32 clues for the answer “BURGLAR”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Building robber | 1 answer |
| Raffles. | 1 answer |
| Raffles, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Thief of the breaking-and-entering variety | 1 answer |
| One breaking and entering | 1 answer |
| Man in a police line-up. | 1 answer |
| Guard dog's target | 1 answer |
| Criminal detected by some alarms | 1 answer |
| Alarm target | 1 answer |
| person who enters a building to commit a crime, esp theft | 1 answer |
| a thief who enters a building with intent to steal | 1 answer |
| peterman | 2 answers |
| Fence supplier | 3 answers |
| picklock | 5 answers |
| cracksman | 5 answers |
| housebreaker | 7 answers |
| Yegg | 7 answers |
| Prowler. | 7 answers |
| Second-story man | 8 answers |
| nimmer | 9 answers |
| pilferer | 9 answers |
| purloiner | 9 answers |
| "Robin ___" | 9 answers |
| filcher | 10 answers |
| larcenist | 10 answers |
| Detected | 11 answers |
| Cause for alarm? | 15 answers |
| Prig | 18 answers |
| stealer | 20 answers |
| thief | 51 answers |
| - cat | 52 answers |
| Robber | 52 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with BURGLAR (5)
You satisfy an assassin’s conscience in one way, a philanthropist’s in another, a miser’s in another, a burglar’s in still another.
The Welshman started—stared in return—three seconds—five seconds—ten—then replied: “Of burglar’s tools.
Then—“And who do you reckon the murdered man _was?_ It was—_Jake_ Dunlap, the long-lost burglar!” “Great Scott!” “And the man that buried him was—_Brace_ Dunlap, his brother!” “Great Scott!” “And who do you reckon is this mowing idiot here that’s letting on all these weeks to be a deef and dumb stranger? It’s—_Jubiter_ Dunlap!” [Illustration: And there was the murdered man.] My land, they all busted out in a howl, and you never see the like of that excitement since the day you was born.
The thought flashed across me that I might have before me a burglar or cut-throat, some monstrous Irregular Isosceles, who, by feigning the voice of a Circle, had obtained admission somehow into the house, and was now preparing to stab me with his acute angle.
Why any burglar should take such a thing passes my understanding, for it was only a plaster cast and of no real value whatever.
Quotes with BURGLAR (3)
There was this book Dad used to read to me every night called "The Giving Tree." It was a really good book, but the back of it had a picture of the author, this guy named Shel Silverstein. But Shel Silverstein looks more like a burglar or a pirate than a guy who should be writing books for kids. Dad must have known that picture kind of freaked me out, because one night after I got out of bed, Dad said: "IF YOU GET OUT OF BED AGAIN TONIGHT, YOU'LL PROBABLY RUN INTO SHEL SILVER…
You can go back to blacksmithing in Hintindar and live a quiet happy life. Do me a favor and marry some pretty farm girl and train your son to beat the crap out of imperial knights.""Sure," Hadrian told him. "And with any luck he'll make friends with a cynical burglar who'll do nothing but torment him.
Every time you open a book for the first time, there is something akin to safe-breaking about it. Yes, that's exactly it: the frantic reader is like a burglar who has spent hours digging a tunnel to enter the strongroom of a bank. He emerges face to face with hundreds of strongboxes, all identical, and opens them one by one. And each time a box is opened, it loses its anonymity and becomes unique: one is filled with paintings, another with a bundle of banknotes, a third with …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Three Across, USA TODAY.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1954–2022).