Crossword-Solution: LEECHES 7 letters, 20 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Physicians, old style. 1 answer
Parasitic group 1 answer
Old doctor's supply 1 answer
Freeloading sorts 1 answer
Clingy cures of yore 1 answer
Bloodsucking worms 1 answer
Bloodletter's supply 1 answer
LAKE shore fauna 2 answers
Bloodsuckers 2 answers
Moochers 4 answers
Spongers. 4 answers
Freeloaders 7 answers
Hangers-on. 9 answers
DENDRIFORM SPONGES 10 answers
ANY WINGLESS BLOODSUCKING PARASITIC INSECT NOTED FOR ABILITY TO LEAP 10 answers
CAPABLE OF EXPELLING OR DESTROYING PARASITIC WORMS 11 answers
A WORKMAN EMPLOYED TO COLLECT SPONGES 11 answers
Parasites 12 answers
Suckers 12 answers
Sponges 13 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TRAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LEECHES (5)

The principal subdivisions are the Ch‘topoda, including the Oligoch‘ta or earthworms and Polych‘ta or marine worms; and the Hirudinea or leeches.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995
For of physical strength my mother had never very much; it was her spirit that got through the work, and in those days she was often so ill that the sand rained on the doctor’s window, and men ran to and fro with leeches, and ‘she is in life, we can say no more’ was the information for those who came knocking at the door.
Margaret Ogilvy J. M. Barrie 2010
Martignon, and her husband; he seemed well, but said that he was having leeches applied to him by his friend Castaing.
A Book of Remarkable Criminals H. B. Irving 1996
LVII "She could not to the castle be conveyed In other guise than borne upon a bier: Her (so Tanacro bids) prompt leeches aid; Because he will not lose a prey so dear; And while to cure Drusilla they essayed, Busied about their spousals was the peer: In that so chaste a lady and so fair, A wife's and not a leman's name should wear.
Orlando Furioso Lodovico Ariosto 1996
There for his healing cunning leeches wrought, Who stanched the blood-rush, and laid on the gash Balms, such as salve war-stricken warriors' pangs.
The Fall of Troy Smyrnaeus Quintus 1996

Quotes with LEECHES (3)

Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain.(Mind the latter, how it’s written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But b…
Gerard Nolst Trenite Drop your Foreign Accent
When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you.
Connie Willis
If you dream your problems at night and live your problems by day, you are suffering the effects of paralyzing toxins delivered by the sting of worry, stress, and fear. You must detach yourself from these leeches if you do not wish to be irreversibly poisoned.
Richelle E. Goodrich Slaying Dragons
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 22 times in crossword archives (1965–2024).