Crossword-Solution: MOONSTONE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Moonstone | n. | A nearly pellucid variety of feldspar, showing pearly or opaline reflections from within. It is used as a gem. The best specimens come from Ceylon. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MOONSTONE | anagram | MONOTONES |
We have 20 clues for the answer “MOONSTONE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Subject of a Wilkie Collins classic | 1 answer |
| Shimmery feldspar gem | 1 answer |
| Pearly white gem | 1 answer |
| 1868 novel (with "The"). | 1 answer |
| Collins novel. | 1 answer |
| Cursed article in a Collins classic | 1 answer |
| Famous mystery novel (with "The"). | 1 answer |
| Feldspar variety | 1 answer |
| Gem in a Wilkie Collins novel | 1 answer |
| Gem popular in Art Nouveau jewelry | 1 answer |
| Opal alternative | 1 answer |
| Opalescent gem | 1 answer |
| Pearly feldspar | 1 answer |
| Translucent gem | 2 answers |
| Pearly gem | 2 answers |
| White feldspar | 2 answers |
| A WIDELY DISTRIBUTED FELDSPAR THAT FORMS ROCKS | 10 answers |
| Feldspar | 12 answers |
| BIRTHSTONE (in order of month) | 25 answers |
| Gem | 62 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MOONSTONE (5)
Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone.
Her affection for him was prettier than most of the things that went to make up the doctor’s life in Moonstone.
They were called Malaga grapes in Moonstone, and once or twice during the winter the leading grocer got a keg of them.
Every one in Moonstone was astonished when the Kohlers took the wandering music-teacher to live with them.
Thea was reflecting as she walked along that had it not been for Professor Wunsch she might have lived on for years in Moonstone without ever knowing the Kohlers, without ever seeing their garden or the inside of their house.
Quotes with MOONSTONE (3)
Sir Ector looked into the fire, fidgeting with something in his pocket. "I have something for you," he said at last. "It was your mother's." And he drew out the thing in his pocket and held it up to her. The ring Blanche took from him was antique silver, cabochon-set with a glimmering moonstone. Her mother's ring! Blanche folded it into her hand and held tightly to the only thing her parents had left her.
I was about 12 when I first encountered 'The Moonstone' - or a Classics Illustrated version of it - digging through an old trunk in my grandfather's house on a rainy Bengali afternoon.
Although we might think of Holmes as the Ur-sleuth, the seminal inspiration for many writers comes not from the chronicles of Baker Street but from the intricately plotted novels of Charles Dickens and his colleague Wilkie Collins, who in works like 'Bleak House' and 'The Moonstone' established the modern, character-driven mystery novel.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1962–2016).