Crossword-Solution: CONTRAPTION
We have 16 clues for the answer “CONTRAPTION”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Unnamed object #1 | 1 answer |
| unnecessarily intricate device | 1 answer |
| Thing-amajig | 14 answers |
| Utensil | 18 answers |
| Doohickey | 18 answers |
| Mechanism. | 23 answers |
| Gimmick | 30 answers |
| contrivance | 31 answers |
| Gadget | 38 answers |
| __ machine | 38 answers |
| Invention. | 39 answers |
| Brainchild | 40 answers |
| Apparatus | 42 answers |
| Implement | 47 answers |
| Device | 75 answers |
| expedient | 76 answers |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "CONTRAPTION"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
15 +1
New Suggestion for "CONTRAPTION"
Related word tools
Sentences with CONTRAPTION (5)
Nice as it seemed, an' convincin' as they talked, I couldn't get the consent of my mind to order, until I knowed if you was goin' to kiver your dead with the contraption.
And yet if he spends all his time on some foolish contraption, like a new kind of traction plow, what good is that? If I could get a glimpse of it, I might drop a friendly hint in his ear." But there were no cracks in the fence, or, if there were, it was too dark to see them, and also too dark to behold anything on the other side of the barrier.
Wall, I wuz a standin' thar one day a watchin' the people and things go by, when all to onct along cum the durndest lookin' contraption I calculate I ever seen in my life.
But before the youth had a glimpse of it he was made aware who the occupant was by hearing someone exclaim: "Bless my shoe laces if this cantankerous contraption isn't going wrong again! I wonder if it's going to have a fit here in this lonely place.
She kept stumbling on with Mister Ward, and he kept shouting to her about some contraption he wanted to build.
Quotes with CONTRAPTION (3)
I tell you all the time, you will never be able to replace me with a brass and steam contraption.
Experience has taught me the power of trophies. You may have every knick-knack and useless contraption ever devised, but while they weigh you down, a simple trophy can go a long, long way.
You think he has some bomb defusing Mac Gyver contraption cooked up that involves lube, condoms, and a paper clip?
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1999–2015).