Crossword-Solution: CRETAN 6 letters, 55 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Cretan a. Pertaining to Crete, or Candia.
Cretan n. A native or inhabitant of Crete or Candia.

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Word Anagrams
CRETAN anagram CANTER, CARNET, CENTRA, CREANT, NECTAR, RECANT, TRANCE

We have 55 clues for the answer “CRETAN”

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Like King Minos 1 answer
Epimenides, by birth 1 answer
GREEK island (pert. to) 1 answer
Greek from Canea 1 answer
Greek island native. 1 answer
Greek sailors dropping with effect of sun's rays 1 answer
HERCULES, bull of 1 answer
Iraklion native 1 answer
Iraklion resident, say 1 answer
King Minos was one 1 answer
King Minos, e.g. 1 answer
King Minos, for one 1 answer
Like "Zorba the Greek" novelist Nikos Kazantzakis 1 answer
Like El Greco and the Minotaur 1 answer
El Greco, for one 1 answer
Like Minos and Ariadne 1 answer
Like the Minotaur legend 1 answer
Minos, e.g. 1 answer
Minos, for instance. 1 answer
Minos, for one 1 answer
Minos, notably 1 answer
Modern Minoan 1 answer
Native of Axis-held Great Sea island. 1 answer
Native of Candia. 1 answer
Native of Canea 1 answer
Native of Gnossus. 1 answer
Native of largest Grecian isle. 1 answer
One living near Psychro Cave, legendary birthplace of Zeus 1 answer
El Greco, e.g. 1 answer
'90s Greek P.M. Constantine Mitsotakis, for one 1 answer
A Candiot. 1 answer
Ancient Knossos denizen 1 answer
Ariadne, e.g. 1 answer
BULL of Hercules 1 answer
CANDIOTE 1 answer
Candia resident. 1 answer
Canea denizen 1 answer
Canea inhabitant 1 answer
Canea resident 1 answer
Certain Greek islander 1 answer
El Greco, by birth 1 answer
Native of a Greek island. 2 answers
Certain Greek 2 answers
Icarus, e.g. 3 answers
Greek islander 3 answers
CANEA 4 answers
daughter Minos 10 answers
CAPITAL MINOS 10 answers
BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER OF MINOS AND PASIPHAE 10 answers
CANEA NATIVE 10 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CRETAN (5)

The people of occupied Greece were addressed by Mr Tsouderos, Crown Prince Paul of Greece, Sofoclis Venizelos, son of the famous Cretan politician Eleftherios Venizelos who had played a leading role in the political fortunes of modern Greece, and Panayiotis Kanellopoulos Minister for War.
The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece Norman F. Joly 2008
MELIBOEUS But we far hence, to burning Libya some, Some to the Scythian steppes, or thy swift flood, Cretan Oaxes, now must wend our way, Or Britain, from the whole world sundered far.
The Bucolics and Eclogues Virgil 2008
But if it be For wheaten harvest and the hardy spelt, Thou tax the soil, to corn-ears wholly given, Let Atlas' daughters hide them in the dawn, The Cretan star, a crown of fire, depart, Or e'er the furrow's claim of seed thou quit, Or haste thee to entrust the whole year's hope To earth that would not.
The Georgics Virgil 2008
The venerable Theseus might have been victorious Charlemagne, and Phaedra's maidens belonged rather in the train of Blanche of Castile than at the Cretan court.
The Troll Garden and Selected Stories Willa Cather 1995
After the punishment of Telphusa for her deceit in giving him no warning of the dragoness at Pytho, Apollo, in the form of a dolphin, brings certain Cretan shipmen to Delphi to be his priests; and the hymn ends with a charge to these men to behave orderly and righteously.
Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Homer and Hesiod 2008

Quotes with CRETAN (3)

He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society.
Thomas Hardy Far from the Madding Crowd
An ardent desire to go took possession of me once more. Not because I wanted to leave - I was quite all right on this Cretan coast, and felt happy and free there and I needed nothing - but because I have always been consumed with one desire; to touch and see as much as possible of the earth and the sea before I die.
Nikos Kazantzakis Zorba the Greek
When he was seventy-four years old the Cretan novelist Nikos Kazantzakis began a book. He called it Report to Greco... Kazantzakis thought of himself as a soldier reporting to his commanding officer on a mortal mission — his life. ... Well, there is only one Report to Greco, but no true book... was ever anything else than a report. ... A true book is a report upon the mystery of existence... it speaks of the world, of our life in the world. Everything we have in the books on …
Archibald MacLeish
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 73 times in crossword archives (1943–2022).