Crossword-Solution: LEVEES 6 letters, 48 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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LEVEES anagram ELEVES, LEEVES, SLEEVE

We have 48 clues for the answer “LEVEES”

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Overflow controls 1 answer
Dam relatives 1 answer
Defenses from deluges 1 answer
Deluge defenses 1 answer
Flood barriers 1 answer
Flood controllers 1 answer
Flood embankments 1 answer
Flood zone structures 1 answer
Flood-control embankments 1 answer
Floodplain constructions 1 answer
Morning receptions. 1 answer
New Orleans infrastructure rebuilt by the Army Corps of Engineers after Hurricane Katrina 1 answer
Current resisters 1 answer
Overflow protection 1 answer
Presidential receptions. 1 answer
Protectors of lowlands 1 answer
River restrainers 1 answer
Riverside insurance 1 answer
Sandbags may be used for them 1 answer
Some banks 1 answer
Steamboat stops 1 answer
They protect banks 1 answer
They're expected to hold water 1 answer
Banks that are too important to fail? 1 answer
Bank protectors 1 answer
River embankments 2 answers
River walls 2 answers
River barriers 2 answers
Mississippi sights 2 answers
Anti-flood embankments 2 answers
Flood preventers 2 answers
Flood protectors 2 answers
Bank checks 2 answers
Flood deterrents 2 answers
Bank guards? 2 answers
Quays. 3 answers
Embankments 3 answers
Protective embankments 3 answers
Flood stoppers 3 answers
Some receptions 3 answers
Bank deposits? 6 answers
A BANK NAMED BY A LENDING SYNDICATE OF SEVERAL BANKS TO PROTECT THEIR INTERESTS 10 answers
A REMEDY THAT STOPS OR CONTROLS THE EFFECTS OF A POISON 10 answers
BE PILED UP IN BANKS OR HEAPS BY THE FORCE OF WIND OR A CURRENT 10 answers
CERTAIN STEAMBOAT, INFORM 10 answers
A RIVER STEAMBOAT ON WHICH THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES COULD BE GIVEN 11 answers
bank river 11 answers
bank of a river 13 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LEVEES (5)

Some believed that the Commission's money ought to be spent only on building and repairing the great system of levees.
Life On The Mississippi, Complete Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2006
Ascending on the left, a flood was pouring in through and over the levees on the Chandler plantation, the most northern point in Pointe Coupee parish.
Life On The Mississippi, Complete Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2006
There Prince Charlie held his phantom levees, and in a very gallant manner represented a fallen dynasty for some hours.
Edinburgh Robert Louis Stevenson 2010
Clay rolled along the coast from Valencia to the mines in a paddle-wheeled steamer that had served its usefulness on the Mississippi, and which had been rotting at the levees in New Orleans, when Van Antwerp had chartered it to carry tools and machinery to the mines and to serve as a private launch for himself.
Soldiers of Fortune Richard Harding Davis 1996
When he held his levees, not standing, but seated on a throne ingeniously contrived to hide his infirmity, the people thronged to greet him; when he drove out through the city streets, shouts followed him wherever he went--every countenance brightened as he passed, and his own, perhaps, was the brightest of all.
The Little Lame Prince Miss Mulock--Pseudonym of Maria Dinah Craik 2006

Quotes with LEVEES (3)

It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.
Barack Obama
The queen who mended her stockings in prison must have looked every inch a queen and even more a queen than at sumptuous banquets and levees.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The federal government was responsible for building the levees, engineering the levees, and consequentially, the federal government is responsible for repairing the damage that has been done, which has not been completed yet.
Mitch Landrieu
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 51 times in crossword archives (1954–2024).