Crossword-Solution: FATTENS
We have 13 clues for the answer “FATTENS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Battens | 1 answer |
| Beefs up, as livestock | 1 answer |
| Gets ready for market, as livestock | 1 answer |
| Makes thicker, as one's wallet | 1 answer |
| Plies with food | 1 answer |
| Prepares for market. | 1 answer |
| Prepares for the abattoir | 1 answer |
| Prepares for the fair | 1 answer |
| Prepares to eat, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Readies for market, in a way | 1 answer |
| Stall-feeds, say | 1 answer |
| Adds to the kitty | 2 answers |
| Puts on pounds. | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERTA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FATTENS (5)
Because you fancy that the shepherd or neatherd fattens of tends the sheep or oxen with a view to their own good and not to the good of himself or his master; and you further imagine that the rulers of states, if they are true rulers, never think of their subjects as sheep, and that they are not studying their own advantage day and night.
For where thy happy folk, Canopus, city of Pellaean fame, Dwell by the Nile's lagoon-like overflow, And high o'er furrows they have called their own Skim in their painted wherries; where, hard by, The quivered Persian presses, and that flood Which from the swart-skinned Aethiop bears him down, Swift-parted into sevenfold branching mouths With black mud fattens and makes Aegypt green, That whole domain its welfare's hope secure Rests on this art alone.
And you say This happened, as it were, but yesterday? And here the Commune stretched a barricade, And there the final desperate stand was made? Such things have been? How all things change and fade! How little lasts in this brave world below! Love dies; hate cools; the Caesars come and go; Gaunt Hunter fattens, and the weak grow strong.
Better fatten me up; you will enjoy me much more.’ ‘That is a very sensible remark,’ replied the ogre; ‘but what fattens you quickest?’ ‘Butter, meat, and red wine,’ answered Halfman.
While I stored up, in my memory, enough to keep our parson going through six pipes on a Saturday night--to have it as right as could be next day--a lean man with a yellow beard, too thin for a good Catholic (which religion always fattens), came up to me, working sideways, in the manner of a female crab.
Quotes with FATTENS (3)
During a famine, the father and stepmother of Hansel and Gretel abandon them in a forest so that they will starve to death. The children stumble upon an edible house inhabited by a witch, who imprisons Hansel and fattens him up in preparation for eating him. Fortunately Gretel shoves the witch into a fiery oven, and “the godless witch burned to death in a horrible way.” 41 • Cinderella’s stepsisters, when trying to squeeze into her slippers, take their mother’s advice and cut…
People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest ... But here is the point: If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets …
Poor girls. The world fattens them on the promise of love. How badly they need it, and how little most of them will ever get. The treacled pop songs, the dresses described in the catalogs with words like 'sunset' and 'Paris'. Then the dreams are taken away with such violent force; the hand wrenching the buttons of the jeans, nobody looking at the man shouting at his girlfriend on the bus.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, WP, WSJ.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1955–2019).