Crossword-Solution: FIDDLER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fiddler | n. | One who plays on a fiddle or violin. |
| Fiddler | n. | A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle, hence the name; -- called also calling crab, soldier crab, and fighting crab. |
| Fiddler | n. | The common European sandpiper (Tringoides hypoleucus); -- so called because it continually oscillates its body. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “FIDDLER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| person who plays the fiddle | 1 answer |
| Rooftop musico | 1 answer |
| Hoedown musician | 1 answer |
| COUNTRY-style violinist | 1 answer |
| A crab on the roof? | 1 answer |
| "Tradition" show, familiarly | 1 answer |
| "Sunrise, Sunset" musical, familiarly | 1 answer |
| type of crab | 5 answers |
| AGENT provocateur | 5 answers |
| Kind of crab. | 7 answers |
| embezzler | 8 answers |
| Shyster | 11 answers |
| Illusionist | 12 answers |
| forger | 15 answers |
| Twister | 24 answers |
| Defaulter | 31 answers |
| Violinist | 33 answers |
| cheater | 38 answers |
| Fox | 40 answers |
| musician | 55 answers |
| Swindler | 65 answers |
| Imitator | 69 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with FIDDLER (5)
However, the occurrence seemed to have become known to few, for it had not interrupted a fiddler, who had lately begun playing by the door of the tent, nor the four bowed old men with grim countenances and walking-sticks in hand, who were dancing “Major Malley’s Reel” to the tune.
Many a church member saw I, walking behind the music, that has danced in the same measure with me, when Somebody was fiddler, and, it might be, an Indian powwow or a Lapland wizard changing hands with us! That is but a trifle, when a woman knows the world.
But scorning rest, upon his reappearance, he instantly began again, though there were no dancers yet, as if the other fiddler had been carried home, exhausted, on a shutter, and he were a bran-new man resolved to beat him out of sight, or perish.
The parts are written; hear the super wail: "Who is stage-managing this cosmic show?" Blind fools of fate and slaves of circumstance, Life is a fiddler, and we all must dance.
Jimmy burst his concertina, and the bullock-drivers went For the corpse of Joe the Fiddler, who was sleeping in his tent; Joe was tired and had lumbago, and he wouldn't come, he said, But the case was very urgent, so they pulled him out of bed; And they fetched him, for the bushmen knew that Something-in-Disguise Had a cure for Joe's lumbago in the Shanty on the Rise.
Quotes with FIDDLER (3)
Dave and Serge... played the Fiddler's Elbow as if it were Giants Stadium, and even though it was acoustic, they just about blew the place up. They were standing on chairs adn lying on the floor, they were funny, they charmed everyone in the pub apart from an old drunk ditting next to the drum kit... who put his fingers firmly in his ears during Serge's extended harmonica solo. It was utterly bizarre and very moving: most musicians wouldn't have bothered turning up, let alone…
This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones "I Wanna Be Sedated" is what folk music is really all about, and gone straight into it.
Ruby said there were many songs that you could not say anybody in particular had made by himself. A song went around from fiddler to fiddler and each one added something and took something away so that in time the song became a different thing from what it had been, barely recognizable in either tune or lyric. But you could not say the song had been improved, for as was true of all human effort, there was never advancement. Everything added meant something lost, and about as …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, NY Sun, NYT, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1958–2020).