Crossword-Solution: DIVERTS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DIVERTS | anagram | STRIVED |
We have 13 clues for the answer “DIVERTS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Alters the course of | 1 answer |
| Changes the course of | 1 answer |
| Distracts | 1 answer |
| Redirects | 1 answer |
| Shifts the course of | 1 answer |
| Turns aside or amuses. | 1 answer |
| AMUSES | 3 answers |
| Detours | 5 answers |
| Changes direction | 7 answers |
| Shifts | 9 answers |
| Entertains | 9 answers |
| AN ENTERTAINMENT THAT PROVOKES PLEASED INTEREST AND DISTRACTS YOU FROM WORRIES AND VEXATIONS | 10 answers |
| De-lights? | 17 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DIVERTS (5)
For a moment she said nothing; then she inquired, “Is it very necessary to your happiness?” “It diverts me more than I can say.” “You are wonderfully civil.
Thus, in these languages, the idea of a robber is that of a man who conceals, carries away, or diverts, in any manner whatever, a thing which does not belong to him.
But the sight of the litters above, tilting up and down, and jerking from this side to that, as the bearers continually slip and tumble, diverts our attention; more especially as the whole length of the rather heavy gentleman is, at that moment, presented to us alarmingly foreshortened, with his head downwards.
The state of civilization is therefore insufficient by itself to explain what suggests to the human mind the love of general ideas, or diverts it from them.
Where any of these wanted fortunes, I would provide them with convenient lodges round my own estate, and have some of them always at my table; only mingling a few of the most valuable among you mortals, whom length of time would harden me to lose with little or no reluctance, and treat your posterity after the same manner; just as a man diverts himself with the annual succession of pinks and tulips in his garden, without regretting the loss of those which withered the preceding year.
Quotes with DIVERTS (3)
I am no scientist. I explore the neighbourhood. An infant who has just learned to hold his head up has a frank and forthright way of gazing about him in bewilderment. He hasn't the faintest clue where he is, and he aims to learn. In a couple of years, what he will have learned instead is how to fake it: he'll have the cocksure air of a squatter who has come to feel he owns the place. Some unwonted, taught pride diverts us from our original intent, which is to explore the neig…
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Surely, by all convention, the Iliad will end here, with the triumphant return of its vindicated hero. But the Iliad is not a conventional epic, and at the very moment of its hero's greatest military triumph, Homer diverts his focus from Achilles to the epic's two most important casualties, Patroklos and Hektor: it is to the consequences of their deaths, especially to the victor, that all action of the Iliad has been inexorably leading.
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Appears in: Crossroads, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).