Crossword-Solution: CREEPIES
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On the back of an animal
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
OSADLR
Hint 3 another clue
BACK ___!
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Sentences with CREEPIES (5)
Besides, you know all those creepie-creepies, as you call them, afford one so excellent an opportunity of studying natural history from the life.' 'Oh, bother such life, Dugald! My dear cousin, I would rather remain in blissful ignorance of natural history all my life than have even an earwig reposing under my pillow.
Besides, I notice that even your Yahoo servants--' 'I beg your pardon, cousin; Gaucho, not Yahoo.' 'Well, well, Gaucho servants shudder, and even run from our common bedroom creepies.' 'Oh! they are nothing at all to go by, Archie.
First a lot of creepies come in to suck your blood and inject poison into your veins, to say nothing of half scaring a fellow to death; and then a whole lot of flying creepies, much worse than the former, come in to hunt them up; and bats come next, to say nothing of lizards; and what with the buzzing and singing and hopping and flapping and beating and thumping, poor _me_ has to lie awake half the night, falling asleep towards morning to dream I'm in purgatory.' 'Poor _you_ indeed!' said Dugald.
This may be a land flowing with milk and honey and all the rest of it, Murdoch, but it is also a land crawling with creepie-creepies.' 'Well, anyhow,' said Dugald, 'here comes your mule.
Archie had long since become acclimatized to all kinds of creepies--they no longer possessed any terrors for him.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2015).