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Crossword-Solution: CRANK 5 letters, 169 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Crank n. A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at
right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or
received from it; also used to change circular into reciprocating
motion, or reciprocating into circular motion. See Bell crank.
Crank n. Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
Crank n. A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change
of the form or meaning of a word.
Crank n. A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also,
a fit of temper or passion.
Crank n. A person full of crotchets; one given to fantastic or
impracticable projects; one whose judgment is perverted in respect to a
particular matter.
Crank n. A sick person; an invalid.
Crank n. Sick; infirm.
Crank n. Liable to careen or be overset, as a ship when she is too
narrow, or has not sufficient ballast, or is loaded too high, to carry
full sail.
Crank n. Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident;
opinionated.
Crank n. To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind
and turn.

We have 169 clues for the answer “CRANK”

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A shaft 1 answer
Annoying, as a call 1 answer
Antique car starter 1 answer
Antique starter 1 answer
Antique-car starter 1 answer
Bent portion of axle. 1 answer
Billy Idol's "Call" on "Rebel Yell" 1 answer
Bitter old man 1 answer
Car part, old style. 1 answer
Car starter of old 1 answer
Car starter of yore 1 answer
Crotchety type 1 answer
Don Rickles, e.g. 1 answer
ECCENTRIC act 1 answer
ECCENTRIC idea 1 answer
Early auto item. 1 answer
Early auto starter 1 answer
Early car starter. 1 answer
Flivver starter 1 answer
Gadget for a very old car 1 answer
Gadget for an old car 1 answer
Gatling gun feature 1 answer
Gouchy person 1 answer
Handle for turning. 1 answer
Hangry person, maybe 1 answer
How to start up a Model T 1 answer
Ill-tempered type 1 answer
Jack-in-the-box appendage 1 answer
Jack-in-the-box feature 1 answer
Jack-in-the-box handle 1 answer
Kind of call that's hard to make in the era of cell phones 1 answer
Model T accessory 1 answer
Model T essential 1 answer
Model T item. 1 answer
Model T necessity 1 answer
Model T starter 1 answer
Model-T accessory 1 answer
Model-T adjunct 1 answer
Monomaniac, informally 1 answer
Mouse Trap part 1 answer
Old car engine starter 1 answer
Old car part 1 answer
Old car starter 1 answer
Operate by a handle. 1 answer
Operate, as an old car window 1 answer
Original Model T need 1 answer
Part of a really old telephone 1 answer
Part of many a generator 1 answer
Part of the shaft of an engine. 1 answer
Person of eccentric habits 1 answer
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greedy person
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Sentences with CRANK (5)

Usually one does not refer to a grind crank out loud, but merely makes the appropriate gesture and noise.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
The Italian turned a crank; and, behold! every one of these small individuals started into the most curious vivacity.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993
His socialism was accompanied by a passing phase of vegetarianism, and with the ferment of youth working headily within him he could hardly escape the charge of being a crank, but "a crank, if a little thing, makes revolutions," and Brooke's youthful extravagances were utterly untinged with decadence.
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke Rupert Brooke 1995
With midnight always in one's heart, And twilight in one's cell, We turn the crank, or tear the rope, Each in his separate Hell, And the silence is more awful far Than the sound of a brazen bell.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol Oscar Wilde 1995
The careful study of an opera audience from different parts of our auditorium has brought me to the conclusion that the public there may be loosely divided into three classes—leaving out reporters of fashionable intelligence, dressmakers in search of ideas, and the lady inhabitants of “Crank Alley” (as a certain corner of the orchestra is called), who sit in perpetual adoration before the elderly tenor.
The Ways of Men Eliot Gregory 2008

Quotes with CRANK (3)

What have I done to her?" Gabriel muttered to himself as he crossed the room to crank open a window. Cool air washed over his skin. "What the devil did she do to me?
Olivia Parker
I didn't like anything. Maybe I was afraid. That was it - I was afraid. I wanted to sit alone in a room with the shades down. I feasted upon that. I was a crank. I was a lunatic.
Charles Bukowski Women
The mechanism of the clock was enclosed in a box resembling a large cupboard, but I was disappointed with the workings. They were much smaller than I had anticipated. The clock was worked by heavy weights suspended on long cables. My father picked up a handle like the crank handle of a car and wound them up. There were two of them. One to work the hands, the other controlling the hammer which struck out the hours on a large bell. Then the mousetraps were set, Not to catch mic…
William Perry The End of an Era: Life in Old Eaglehawk and Bendigo
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Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 111 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).