Crossword-Solution: CRANKS 6 letters, 23 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Starters of yore 1 answer
Parts of hurdy-gurdies 1 answer
Old car starters 1 answer
Model T starters 1 answer
Model T appendages 1 answer
Jack-in-the-box handles 1 answer
Car starters of old 1 answer
Crosspatches. 1 answer
Crotchety ones: Colloq. 1 answer
Features of jack-in-the-boxes 1 answer
Features of old cars. 1 answer
Grumpy people 1 answer
Winches 2 answers
Stimulates, with "up" 2 answers
Irritable persons. 2 answers
Grouchy ones 3 answers
Curmudgeons 3 answers
Grouches 4 answers
Constant complainers 4 answers
Whims 5 answers
Construction site sights 6 answers
Eccentrics 10 answers
Handles 48 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CRANKS (5)

But what's the matter with a captive balloon, and letting fresh-air cranks sleep in a big basket bed--say, at five hundred feet? Or a thousand--a thousand would be better.
Where There's A Will Mary Roberts Rinehart 2006
Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas John Milton 1995
One of the sneers of the Kelly-House gang was that "those Dorn cranks think they are aristocrats, a little better than us common, ordinary laboring men." And the sneer was not without effect.
The Conflict David Graham Phillips 1996
Also, even in civilized communities, man is in constant danger from highwaymen, cranks and policemen.
The Master Key L. Frank Baum 1996
Haydock talking about 'hicks.' Apparently he despises the farmers because they haven't reached the social heights of selling thread and buttons.” “Parasites? Us? Where'd the farmers be without the town? Who lends them money? Who--why, we supply them with everything!” “Don't you find that some of the farmers think they pay too much for the services of the towns?” “Oh, of course there's a lot of cranks among the farmers same as there are among any class.
Main Street Sinclair Lewis 2006

Quotes with CRANKS (3)

Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as are the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference.
Willard Van Orman Quine
Nothing is a masterpiece - a real masterpiece - till it's about two hundred years old. A picture is like a tree or a church, you've got to let it grow into a masterpiece. Same with a poem or a new religion. They begin as a lot of funny words. Nobody knows whether they're all nonsense or a gift from heaven. And the only people who think anything of 'em are a lot of cranks or crackpots, or poor devils who don't know enough to know anything. Look at Christianity. Just a lot of f…
Joyce Cary The Horse's Mouth
Where misunderstanding dwells, misuse will not be far behind. No theory in the history of science has been more misused and abused by cranks and charlatans — and misunderstood by people struggling in good faith with difficult ideas — than quantum mechanics.
Sean Carroll The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.

Used 22 times in crossword archives (1955–2018).