Crossword-Solution: CROCUSES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CROCUSES | anagram | USSOCCER |
We have 8 clues for the answer “CROCUSES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Bulbs that bloom in the spring | 1 answer |
| First signs of spring. | 1 answer |
| Early spring bloomers | 2 answers |
| Saffron sources | 2 answers |
| Sources of saffron | 2 answers |
| Spring blooms | 7 answers |
| Spring flowers | 10 answers |
| Signs of spring. | 14 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CROCUSES (5)
The crocuses and hyacinths were to grow in rows; some of the summer flowers he placed over her head and feet, the lilies and forget-me-nots over her heart.
Impatient of the set in the field, she turned to the quiet lawn, surrounded by sheaves of shut-up crocuses.
After this they resumed their walk, strolling on with the slowness of unaccustomed holiday-makers from one path to another--through budding shrubberies, past grass-banks sprinkled with lilac crocuses, and under rocks on which the forsythia lay like sudden sunshine.
Between the gorgeous buttes and rainbow-tinted ridges there were narrow plains, broken here and there by dry creeks or gulches, and these again were clothed scantily with poplars and sad-colored bull-berry bushes, while the bare spots were purple with the wild Dakota crocuses.
One day the Master of the Prairie, walking out over his great lawns, where were only grasses, asked the Prairie: “Where are your flowers?” And the Prairie said: “Master, I have no seeds.” Then he spoke to the birds, and they carried seeds of every kind of flower and strewed them far and wide, and soon the Prairie bloomed with crocuses and roses and buffalo beans and the yellow crowfoot and the wild sunflowers and the red lilies, all the summer long.
Quotes with CROCUSES (3)
The weather was cheerful, the breath of spring animating. She watched the swelling of the buds — the peeping heads of the crocuses — the opening of the anemones and wild wind-flowers, and at last, the sweet odour of the new-born violets, with all the interest created by novelty; not that she had not observed and watched these things before, with transitory pleasure, but now the operations of nature filled all her world; the earth was no longer merely the dwelling place of her…
I lay down in the mother ash dirt among the crocuses and told her it was okay. That I'd surrendered. That since she died, everything had changed. Things she couldn't have imagined and wouldn't have guessed. My words came out low and steadfast. I was so sad it felt as if someone were choking me, and yet it seemed my whole life depended on my getting those words out. She would always be my mother, I told her, but I had to go. She wasn't there for me in that flowerbed anymore an…
Advice" I must do as you do? Your way I own Is a very good way, and still, There are sometimes two straight roads to a town, One over, one under the hill. You are treading the safe and the well-worn way, That the prudent choose each time; And you think me reckless and rash to-day Because I prefer to climb. Your path is the right one, and so is mine. We are not like peas in a pod, Compelled to lie in a certain line, Or else be scattered abroad.'T were a dull old world, methink…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1952–2023).