Crossword-Solution: CRANKS
We have 23 clues for the answer “CRANKS”
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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.
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.
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.
Also, even in civilized communities, man is in constant danger from highwaymen, cranks and policemen.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 22 times in crossword archives (1955–2018).