Crossword-Solution: GORGON
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| Gorgon | n. | One of three fabled sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, with snaky hair and of terrific aspect, the sight of whom turned the beholder to stone. The name is particularly given to Medusa. |
| Gorgon | n. | Anything very ugly or horrid. |
| Gorgon | n. | The brindled gnu. See Gnu. |
| Gorgon | a. | Like a Gorgon; very ugly or terrific; as, a Gorgon face. |
We have 26 clues for the answer “GORGON”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Euryale, for instance | 1 answer |
| Mythical figure who lost her head | 1 answer |
| Mythical figure that might elicit a stone-faced reaction? | 1 answer |
| Monster with a petrifying gaze | 1 answer |
| Monster like Medusa | 1 answer |
| Medusa was one | 1 answer |
| Medusa or Stheno | 1 answer |
| Homer's "dread monster" | 1 answer |
| EURYALE | 1 answer |
| Dungeons & Dragons beast named for a mythical Greek figure | 1 answer |
| Mythical snake-haired woman | 1 answer |
| One of the snaky sisters of Greece. | 1 answer |
| Ugly, terrifying woman | 1 answer |
| a glance at Medusa turned the beholder to stone | 1 answer |
| Medusa, for one | 2 answers |
| Snake haired lady | 2 answers |
| Monster of Greek myth | 2 answers |
| Snake-haired she-beast | 2 answers |
| Perseus, victim of | 3 answers |
| medusa | 4 answers |
| part0301TERRIFYING person | 6 answers |
| Rara avis | 10 answers |
| Hag | 27 answers |
| Virago | 30 answers |
| DEMON ___ | 46 answers |
| Monster | 59 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with GORGON (5)
The peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of brow ridges, the absence of a chin beneath the wedgelike lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles, the tumultuous breathing of the lungs in a strange atmosphere, the evident heaviness and painfulness of movement due to the greater gravitational energy of the earth—above all, the extraordinary intensity of the immense eyes—were at once vital, intense, inhuman, crippled and monstrous.
The Gorgon’s Head It was a heavy mass of building, that chateau of Monsieur the Marquis, with a large stone courtyard before it, and two stone sweeps of staircase meeting in a stone terrace before the principal door.
What is it to be? A live gorgon, a Jack-in-the-box, or a spring that fires a pistol? On your knees, sir, before the prodigy!’ So saying, I turned the despatch-box upside down upon the table.
The head of a dreadful monster, the Gorgon, covered the broad of his back, and a bag of silver—a marvel to see—contained it: and from the bag bright tassels of gold hung down.
True, she was a sweet woman and an angel of a wife; but what if a Gorgon should return, amid the transports of our connubial bliss, and take the angel’s place.
Quotes with GORGON (3)
War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.
Death lurks in the shadows, just out of view. Now and then I see his reaching hand, uncertain of the blurry image that passes before my eyes, but conscious of the crippling influence of his touch. Some say Death rears an ugly head, so hideous a view the beholder can scarcely gasp their last breath. Others call him beautiful, a sweet relief to look upon. But these are rumors babbled by the unknowing. For Death is like the gorgon, Medusa, who when perceived, turns the body to s…
I don't feel at home where I am, or where I spend time; only where, beyond counting, there's freedom and calm, that is, waves, that is, space where, when there, you consist of pure freedom, which, seen, turns that Gorgon, the crowd, to stone, to pebbles and sand . . . where life's mean-ing lies buried, that never let onecome within cannon shot yet. From cloud-covered wells untoldpour color and light, a feteof cupids and Ledas in gold. That is, silk and honey and sheen. That i…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1943–2022).