Crossword-Solution: LURKING 7 letters, 32 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Lurking p. pr. & vb. n. of Lurk

We have 32 clues for the answer “LURKING”

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Ready to pounce, like a tiger 1 answer
Ready to ambush 1 answer
Lying in ambush 1 answer
In the shadows, perhaps 1 answer
Hiding in the shadows 2 answers
IN concealment 5 answers
intermitted 9 answers
Abeyant 15 answers
DEFERRED ___ 31 answers
undetectable 32 answers
unapparent 32 answers
connoted 33 answers
Hinted 34 answers
insinuated 34 answers
postponed 35 answers
unnoticeable 37 answers
Suggested 41 answers
Indicated. 43 answers
Implied 46 answers
Smallest 47 answers
Least 49 answers
Fecund 52 answers
Demonstrative 53 answers
implicit 53 answers
Quiescent 53 answers
insinuative 54 answers
Subtle 54 answers
Latent 58 answers
Hiding __ 60 answers
Dormant 61 answers
meaningful 63 answers
Meaning 67 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LURKING (5)

Even were there no other lurking danger—a danger I did not care to let my imagination loose upon—there would still be all the roots to stumble over and the tree-boles to strike against.
The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992
Someone lurking outside an apartment door tries all kinds of bogus ways to get the occupant to open up, while ominous music plays in the background.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Even the women went about with a curious look of fear and of hate lurking in their brown eyes; and all watched Marguerite as she stepped on shore, followed by Sir Andrew, and murmured as she passed along: “_Sacrés aristos!_” or else “_Sacrés Anglais!_” Otherwise their presence excited no further comment.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993
Instantly I sprang toward it to wrench it open again, for something in the uncanny movement of the thing and the tense and almost palpable silence of the chamber seemed to portend a lurking evil lying hidden in this rock-bound chamber within the bowels of the Golden Cliffs.
The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
CHAPTER 10 Fighting Racism at Home and Abroad Hard Times Again THE new Negro of the 1920s who had struck out for "the Promised Land" found, in the 1930s, that his old enemies of hunger, cold, and prejudice were lurking outside the door of his newly chosen home.
The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008

Quotes with LURKING (3)

But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?
Jack Kerouac On the Road
Why were you lurking under our window?""Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?""Listening to the news," said Harry in a resigned voice. His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage." Listening to the news! Again?""Well, it changes every day, you see," said Harry.
J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free — if we are. Or because we’ve been educated — if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance — the confidence — to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.
Iris Murdoch
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 6 times in crossword archives (1996–2025).