Crossword-Solution: INKSTAINED
We have 5 clues for the answer “INKSTAINED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Descriptor for old-time cartoonists' hands | 1 answer |
| Like an illustrator's fingertips, maybe | 1 answer |
| Like newspaper employee's hands | 1 answer |
| Like wretches who work for newspapers | 1 answer |
| Blotchy, in a way | 2 answers |
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On the back of an animal
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
ODSALR
Hint 3 another clue
BACK ___!
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Sentences with INKSTAINED (3)
Looking round at the vacant desks and inkstained furniture, Artemus was silent for a minute or two, and then burst into one of those peculiar chuckling fits of laughter in which he would occasionally indulge; not a loud laugh, but a shaking of the whole body with an impulse of merriment which set every muscle in motion.
Exam week came and went, leaving inkstained fingers and a crop of headaches; mistresses were busy correcting papers; "swatters" were daring to congratulate themselves, and "slackers" were bewailing the difficulty of the questions.
She was seated at the wide battered old writing-table which schoolboy Harry English had scored with penknife and chisel, burned and inkstained.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2016–2023).