Crossword-Solution: CONROY
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| Clue | Answers |
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| "Joker" actress Frances | 1 answer |
| "Lords of Discipline" author | 1 answer |
| "The Great Santini" author | 1 answer |
| "The Prince of Tides" novelist Pat | 1 answer |
| Pat who wrote "The Prince of Tides" and "The Great Santini" | 1 answer |
| "The Prince of Tides" author | 2 answers |
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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 CONROY (5)
Conroy's Gap This was the way of it, don't you know -- Ryan was 'wanted' for stealing sheep, And never a trooper, high or low, Could find him -- catch a weasel asleep! Till Trooper Scott, from the Stockman's Ford -- A bushman, too, as I've heard them tell -- Chanced to find him drunk as a lord Round at the Shadow of Death Hotel.
Drunk as he was when the trooper came, To him that did not matter a rap -- Drunk or sober, he was the same, The boldest rider in Conroy's Gap.
When this girl's father, old Jim Carew, Was droving out on the Castlereagh With Conroy's cattle, a wire came through To say that his wife couldn't live the day.
The trooper heard the hoof-beats ring In the stable yard, and he slammed the gate, But the Swagman rose with a mighty spring At the fence, and the trooper fired too late, As they raced away and his shots flew wide And Ryan no longer need care a rap, For never a horse that was lapped in hide Could catch the Swagman in Conroy's Gap.
Where fierce hot winds have set the pine and myall boughs asweep He hails the shearers passing by for news of Conroy's sheep.
Quotes with CONROY (3)
The Queen (Victoria) wrote generously to her mother, 'I quite understand your feelings on the occasion of Sir John Conroy's death. . . I will not speak of the past and the many sufferings he entailed on us by creating divisions between you and me which could never have existed otherwise, they are buried with him.. For his poor wife and children I am truly sorry." Thanking the Queen for her letter the Duchess of Kent wrote 'Yes, Sir John Conroy's death was a most painful shock…
So now, not only did my best friend leave, but the cheerleaders and their mindless followers assumed I was personally responsible for the petition (which, yeah, I was) and started being openly rude to me - shutting doors in my face, leaving nasty notes on my desk and in my locker, making fun of me when I could obviously hear them. That's when I started keeping really quiet in class, and finding ways to show the other kids I wasn't afraid of them - like staring them straight i…
Pat Conroy embraced his new hometown with the grateful passion of a refugee.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (2004–2025).