Crossword-Solution: DOWNBEAT
We have 12 clues for the answer “DOWNBEAT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Apt part of a sad song? | 1 answer |
| Conductor's cue, maybe | 1 answer |
| Jazz magazine | 1 answer |
| Party-pooping | 1 answer |
| Somewhat pessimistic | 1 answer |
| the first beat of a musical measure | 1 answer |
| Jazz/blues monthly | 2 answers |
| Bearish time | 5 answers |
| Pessimistic | 30 answers |
| Dejected | 65 answers |
| Gloomy | 89 answers |
| Blue | 123 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETRA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DOWNBEAT (2)
For the moment, forgetful even of her father, Genevieve clasped her gloved hands and gazed upwards over the heads of the rushing multitude at a vision of swampy lagoons, of palm clumps and tangled jungles, of towering cliffs, and hot sand beaches, all aglare with the fierce downbeat of the tropical sun.
The substitution of English, Turkish, Egyptian or Russian cigarettes for good old Camels or Luckies; the impossibility of buying a bottle of cocacola at any price; the disappearance of the solacing wad of chewinggum; the pulsing downbeat of a hot band--these were the first things whose loss was noticed.
Quotes with DOWNBEAT (3)
In these downbeat times, we need as much hope and courage as we do vision and analysis; we must accent the best of each other even as we point out the vicious effects of our racial divide and pernicious consequences of our maldistribution of wealth and power. We simply cannot enter the twenty-first century at each other's throats, even as we acknowledge the weighty forces of racism, patriarchy, economic inequality, homophobia, and ecological abuse on our necks. We are at a cr…
Expectations are at war, if good feeling and discomfort clash. When we are expecting zest and joy, our good karma may be ousted by distress and frustration, if negative downbeat waves are emitted. Just with a feel of realism, without prejudice, should we step into the future. What will be, will be. Only the fortune of war will tell, since life may be war or peace. ("Fish for silence.")
Music has the ability to express in the upbeat every brilliant aspect of existence, while on the downbeat convey the anguish that a human being experiences when apprehending the fleeting nature of time, and the mysterious torture of living and dying. Music stands alone in its ability to communicate the symbols and phases of life, both being and nonbeing.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WP.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1970–2020).