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Crossword-Solution: CRETE 5 letters, 287 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Crete n. A Cretan

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CRETE anagram CERET, CERTE, CTREE, ERECT, RECTE, TERCE, TRECE

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"Zorba the Greek" island 1 answer
56 Labyrinth site 1 answer
Abode of Minos 1 answer
Aegean vacation locale 1 answer
Allied objective in Mediterranean. 1 answer
Ancient Minoan's island 1 answer
Ariadne's home 1 answer
Ariadne's island home 1 answer
Birthplace of Zeus 1 answer
Birthplace of Zeus, in Greek myth 1 answer
Birthplace of Zeus, in myth 1 answer
British-Greek problem. 1 answer
CRETAN (pert. to) 1 answer
Candia 1 answer
Candia's island 1 answer
Candia's isle 1 answer
Canea Where is capital 1 answer
Canea is its capital 1 answer
Canea's island 1 answer
Canea's land 1 answer
Center of Minoan culture 1 answer
Cnossus' country 1 answer
Daedalus built the labyrinth here. 1 answer
Domain of King Minos 1 answer
El Greco's birthplace 1 answer
El Greco's homeland 1 answer
European island that was once an Islamic state 1 answer
Extremely old civilizational center 1 answer
German-occupied island. 1 answer
Greece's largest island 1 answer
Greek Island accompaniment 1 answer
Greek island home to Knossos 1 answer
Greek island in the Mediterranean 1 answer
Greek island where El Greco was from 1 answer
Greek island where Knossos once stood 1 answer
Greek island where Minos ruled 1 answer
Greek island, capital Heraklion 1 answer
Greek labyrinth island, in myth 1 answer
Heraklion is its capital 1 answer
Heraklion location 1 answer
Heraklion's island 1 answer
Greek island, home to the ancient Minoan civilization 1 answer
Home of Daedalus 1 answer
Home of Icarus 1 answer
Home of King Minos 1 answer
Home of Minoan civilization 1 answer
Home of early civilization. 1 answer
Home of the Minoan civilization 1 answer
Home of the Minoans 1 answer
Home of the Minotaur 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Unscramble CRETE5-letter words that start with C5-letter words that end in E5-letter words containing RE5-letter words containing TE5-letter words with C and R

Sentences with CRETE (5)

Forty four years later some of the younger generation of operators who had not heard of this early activity from Crete allocated the prefix SV9 to the island.
The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece Norman F. Joly 2008
That question, I said, is easily answered: the four governments of which I spoke, so far as they have distinct names, are, first, those of Crete and Sparta, which are generally applauded; what is termed oligarchy comes next; this is not equally approved, and is a form of government which teems with evils: thirdly, democracy, which naturally follows oligarchy, although very different: and lastly comes tyranny, great and famous, which differs from them all, and is the fourth and worst disorder of a State.
Plato's Republic Plato 2008
Upon taking the course of the _Nautilus_, I found that we were going towards Candia, the ancient Isle of Crete.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne 1994
The hihe god, so as thei seide, To whom thei most worschipe leide, Saturnus hihte, and king of Crete He hadde be; bot of his sete He was put doun, as he which stod In frenesie, and was so wod, That fro his wif, which Rea hihte, Hise oghne children he to plihte, 850 And eet hem of his comun wone.
Confessio Amantis John Gower 1995
Being disappointed, then, in his search for the king, Orion went away to Crete and spent his time hunting in company with Artemis and Leto.
Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Homer and Hesiod 2008

Quotes with CRETE (3)

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a f…
Mark Twain Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings
There us a kind of flame in Crete - let us call it "soul" - something more powerful than either life or death. There is pride, obstinacy, valor, and together with these something else inexpressible and imponderable, something which makes you rejoice that you are a human being, and at the same time tremble. (Report to Greco)
N. Kazantzakis
The lintel of more than one collapsed Venetian house on Crete bears the Latin motto ‘The world is nothing but smoke and shadows’.
Roger Crpwley
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYM, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 511 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).