Crossword-Solution: JAKES 5 letters, 20 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

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Jakes n. A privy.

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Nicholson film "The Two ___" 1 answer
John whose Civil War trilogy was adapted as a miniseries starring Patrick Swayze 1 answer
"Love and War" author 1 answer
"North and South" creator 1 answer
"North and South" novelist 1 answer
"North and South" novelist John 1 answer
"North and South" trilogy author John __ 1 answer
"North and South" writer John 1 answer
"The Bastard" author John 1 answer
"The Two ___" ("Chinatown" sequel) 1 answer
"The Two ___" (1990 "Chinatown" sequel) 1 answer
"The Two ___" (Nicholson movie) 1 answer
"___ Women" (Neil Simon play) 1 answer
Author of "The Titans" 1 answer
John who wrote "The Bastard" 1 answer
North and South author 2 answers
BACKHOUSE 3 answers
CHINATOWN (FILM) DIRECTOR 10 answers
Outhouse? 14 answers
Privy 62 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with JAKES (5)

Part IV 46 Jakes and the Lady I was sold to a corn dealer and baker, whom Jerry knew, and with him he thought I should have good food and fair work.
Black Beauty Anna Sewell 2006
Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you’ll give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar and daub the walls of a jakes with him.
King Lear William Shakespeare 1998
What had he to do with sailing back at all! As well make the fox a knight for being the first that ever jumped down a jakes to escape the hounds.
Westward Ho! Charles Kingsley 2006
The jakes of a protestant family, who eat gras every day, bears a much higher price than the privy of a good catholic who lives maigre one half of the year.
Travels Through France and Italy Tobias Smollett 2000
Then she anointed the wheels with dragon's blood and bade her companions beat her with a severe beating, and set her in a chest and, quoth she, "Cry abroad the Refrain of Unity,[FN#413] nor fear from it aught of damage!" Replied they, "How can we beat thee, who be our sovereign lady, Zat al-Dawahi, mother of the King we glory in?" Then said she, "We blame not nor deal reproach to him who goeth to the jakes, and in need evil becometh good deed.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 2 Richard F. Burton 2001

Quotes with JAKES (3)

Be informed, also, that this good and savoury Parish is the home of Hectors, Trapanners, Biters who all go under the general appelation of Rooks. Here are all the Jilts, Cracks, Prostitutes, Night-walkers, Whores, Linnen-lifters, who are like so many Jakes, Privies, Houses of Office, Ordures, Excrements, Easments and piles of Sir-reverence: the whores of Ratcliffe High-way smell of Tarpaulin and stinking Cod from their continuall Traffick with seamen's Breeches. There are oth…
Peter Ackroyd Hawksmoor
Hey, Mrs. Jakes, how come people can’t afford new shoes or food, but they can still buy candy?” She smiled and waved him off. “Oh, people will always find a way to buy chocolate, Elliot. Chocolate is forever.
Jack C. Monroe A Hole In Time: An Elliot James Adventure
Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. *all cheer for Shakespearean insults*
William Shakespeare
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 19 times in crossword archives (1979–2025).