Crossword-Solution: LESBOS
We have 22 clues for the answer “LESBOS”
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| Greek locale once described as "the island of overmastering passions" | 1 answer |
| Island home of the poets Alcaeus and Sappho | 1 answer |
| Where Sappho lived. | 1 answer |
| Sappho's isle | 1 answer |
| Sappho's island home | 1 answer |
| Sappho's island | 1 answer |
| Sappho's home | 1 answer |
| SAPPHO, island home of | 1 answer |
| Land famous for its lyric poets | 1 answer |
| Island where Sappho was born | 1 answer |
| Home to Sappho | 1 answer |
| Greek isle whose name might make kids giggle | 1 answer |
| Greek island where Sappho lived | 1 answer |
| Greek island that, as you'd expect, is a popular destination for gay tourists | 1 answer |
| Greek island that's the etymological source of the "L" in L.G.B.T.Q. | 1 answer |
| Eponymous Greek island | 1 answer |
| AN ISLAND OF EASTERN GREECE IN THE EASTERN AEGEAN SEA | 11 answers |
| island Greece | 11 answers |
| Greece island | 12 answers |
| Greek island | 19 answers |
| Island accompaniment | 24 answers |
| Aegean island | 35 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.
Hint 2 anagram
MEZAEC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with LESBOS (5)
See how the temple's solid square of shade Points north to Lesbos, and the splendid sea That you have never seen, oh evening-eyed.
But he spake: "Dearer to me than life itself, when life Is happy (not at moments such as these); The day of sorrow comes, too long delayed, Nor long enough! With Caesar at our gates With all his forces, a secure retreat Shall Lesbos give thee.
But a generous band of four hundred obliged the mariners, when they were in sight of the Isle of Lesbos, to alter their course: they touched on Peloponnesus, ran ashore on a desert coast of Africa, and boldly erected, on Mount Aurasius, the standard of independence and revolt.
Under the reign of Andronicus the younger, the great domestic ruled the emperor and the empire; and it was by his valor and conduct that the Isle of Lesbos and the principality of Ætolia were restored to their ancient allegiance.
Under the reign of Andronicus the younger, the great domestic ruled the emperor and the empire; and it was by his valor and conduct that the Isle of Lesbos and the principality of ∆tolia were restored to their ancient allegiance.
Quotes with LESBOS (3)
Chalmers, thanks to Baudelaire, knew all about Taffreuse Juive, opium, absinthe, negresses, Lesbos and the metamorphoses of the vampire ... Needless to say, Chalmers and myself were both virgins, in every possible meaning of the word.
The inextinguishable lesbian spark. You've surely heard about it? The one that was first ignited at Lesbos, because Sappho was so sad every time a young woman left the academy that she wrote her a poem. Fancy being sad because someone leaves! Perverted, that's what I call it. Don't you?
I don't believe environment has the slightest bit to do with anything - I only believe in ancestral influence. It would have made no difference whether I'd been brought up in a reform school, or on the island of Lesbos.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Onion, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 24 times in crossword archives (1958–2024).