Crossword-Solution: CANDLE 6 letters, 75 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Candle n. A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a wick
composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and used to
furnish light.
Candle n. That which gives light; a luminary.

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CANDLE anagram CENDAL, DECLAN, ENCLAD, LANCED

We have 75 clues for the answer “CANDLE”

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Light on a birthday cake 1 answer
Cake burner 1 answer
Chandler's product 1 answer
Classic light provider 1 answer
Easter glow 1 answer
Elton John's "__ in the Wind" 1 answer
Examine (eggs) by a lighting device. 1 answer
Tea light, e.g. 1 answer
Incense source, and a hint to the starred answers 1 answer
It may be brought out during a blackout 1 answer
It may be scented 1 answer
It may represent a year 1 answer
Taper, e.g. 1 answer
Test eggs 1 answer
Light with a wick 1 answer
Lightheaded one? 1 answer
Menorah insert 1 answer
Mood setter, perhaps 1 answer
One might have a crackling wick 1 answer
One of five on a 5-year-old's birthday cake 1 answer
Part 3 of motto 1 answer
Rushlight 1 answer
Slender taper 1 answer
Something wicked 1 answer
Symbol of a year, perhaps 1 answer
"Out, out brief ___." 1 answer
waxy light source 1 answer
the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites 1 answer
goes slow 1 answer
cierge 1 answer
Year, symbolically 1 answer
Wicked wax 1 answer
Wicked little thing 1 answer
Wicked light source 1 answer
" . . . out, brief ___!": Macbeth 1 answer
Ancient time-telling device 1 answer
Aromatherapist's tool 1 answer
Vigil light 1 answer
Thing to snuff 1 answer
There's one for every year 1 answer
BOUGIE 1 answer
Bell, book and ___ 1 answer
Birthday cake item 1 answer
Blackout necessity 1 answer
Wax light 2 answers
Wax taper 2 answers
Item on a birthday cake 2 answers
Wick holder 2 answers
Wicked thing 2 answers
chandelle 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CANDLE (5)

When the turquoise went to Malvina Sauvage, the French banker’s daughter, Marie shrugged her shoulders and betook herself to her little tent of shawls, where she began to shuffle her cards by the light of a tallow candle, calling out, “Fortunes, fortunes!” The young priest, Father Duchesne, went first to have his fortune read.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
Oak extinguished the lantern by blowing into it and then pinching out the snuff, the cot being lighted by a candle suspended by a twisted wire.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
But, for myself, during the whole of my Custom-House experience, moonlight and sunshine, and the glow of firelight, were just alike in my regard; and neither of them was of one whit more avail than the twinkle of a tallow-candle.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
There is an interesting semi-parallel to this term among typographers and printers: When new typefaces are being punch-cut by hand, a `smoke test' (hold the letter in candle smoke, then press it onto paper) is used to check out new dies.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
The night after the funeral, at which he had been sadly affected, Utterson locked the door of his business room, and sitting there by the light of a melancholy candle, drew out and set before him an envelope addressed by the hand and sealed with the seal of his dead friend.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1992

Quotes with CANDLE (3)

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld Maxims
Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu The Prince and the Pauper
Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
Eleanor Roosevelt This is My Story
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 59 times in crossword archives (1956–2025).