Crossword-Solution: MISPRINTS
We have 6 clues for the answer “MISPRINTS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Crummy jobs in publishing? | 1 answer |
| Editor's woe | 1 answer |
| New Yrok and New Jresey, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Phone company buried in errors? | 1 answer |
| Smudged words, maybe | 1 answer |
| Printing errors | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETRA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MISPRINTS (5)
When will people understand that it is useless for a man to read his Bible unless he also reads everybody else’s Bible? A printer reads a Bible for misprints.
Oliver Lodge has so kindly supplied me with, comes within the later class. I trust that if some parts of the book are thought to be frivolous, the chapters on lists of errata and misprints may be found to contain some useful literary information.
Early use of errata--Intentional blunders-- Authors correct their books--Ineffectual attempts to be immaculate--Misprints never corrected.
Nicholas Heinsius, the son of the editor of the ‘Virgil,’ when he came to correct his father’s edition, found that it contained so many coquilles, or misprints, as to be nearly the most incorrect copy in the world.
Strangely enough, both in BLUMENTHAL and in Chodowiecki's ENGRAVING the year is given as 1785 (plainly impossible); _Militair-Lexikon_ misprints the month; and, one way or other, only Rodenbeck (iii.
Quotes with MISPRINTS (1)
Cynthia had been on friendly terms with an eccentric librarian called Porlock who in the last years of his dusty life had been engaged in examining old books for miraculous misprints such as the substitution of "1" for the second "h" in the word "hither." Contrary to Cynthia, he cared nothing for the thrill of obscure predictions; all he sought was the freak itself, the chance that mimics choice, the flaw that looks like a flower; and Cynthia, a much more perverse amateur of …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, WSJ.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1976–2023).