Crossword-Solution: PALES 5 letters, 84 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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PALES anagram ALPES, ELAPS, LAPSE, LEAPS, PEALS, PELAS, PLEAS, SALEP, SEPAL, SPALE

We have 84 clues for the answer “PALES”

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Isn't worthy in comparison 1 answer
Loses ruddiness 1 answer
Loses one's tan 1 answer
Looks inferior, comparatively 1 answer
Looks inferior by comparison 1 answer
Looks inferior 1 answer
Looks frightened, in a way 1 answer
Looks fearful 1 answer
Looks bad, comparatively 1 answer
Lightens in color 1 answer
More than flinches 1 answer
Is not so important, comparatively speaking 1 answer
Is lesser (in comparison) 1 answer
Is less serious in comparison 1 answer
Is drained of color 1 answer
Hardly measures up in comparison 1 answer
Hardly measures up 1 answer
Grows wan 1 answer
Goes white from fright 1 answer
Goes white 1 answer
Sees a ghost, maybe 1 answer
Grows faint in comparison 1 answer
___ in comparison (doesn't measure up to) 1 answer
Turns whitish 1 answer
Turns white with fear 1 answer
Turns white 1 answer
Turns chalky 1 answer
Turns ashen 1 answer
Turns a whiter shade 1 answer
Shows fear, maybe 1 answer
Grows ashen 1 answer
Reacts to seeing a ghost, maybe 1 answer
Reacts to bad news, maybe 1 answer
Reacts to bad news, in a way 1 answer
Reacts to a spirit 1 answer
Reacts to a scare, perhaps 1 answer
Reacts to a ghost, perhaps 1 answer
Reacts to a ghost, maybe 1 answer
Reacts to a fright 1 answer
Pickets outside a house 1 answer
Exhibits fright, perhaps 1 answer
Becomes lighter. 1 answer
Goes ghostly 1 answer
Becomes wan 1 answer
Betrays horror, in a way 1 answer
Changes color in fright 1 answer
Compares poorly 1 answer
Compares unfavorably 1 answer
Displays fear, maybe 1 answer
Doesn't measure up 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEART
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PALES (5)

The chicken crept through the pales of the coop and ran, with some show of liveliness, to her feet; while Chanticleer and the ladies of his household regarded her with queer, sidelong glances, and then croaked one to another, as if communicating their sage opinions of her character.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993
And for the said bailey, forsooth, they had but little stomach; for they saw thence, on the slopes of the Castle-hill, tokens of the cruel justice of the said lord; for there were men and women there, yea, and babes also, hanging on gibbets and thrust through with sharp pales, and when they asked of folk why these had suffered, they but looked at them as if astonished, and passed on without a word.
The Well at the World's End William Morris 2008
GEORGIC III Thee too, great Pales, will I hymn, and thee, Amphrysian shepherd, worthy to be sung, You, woods and waves Lycaean.
The Georgics Virgil 2008
The pales of a picket fence, the cheering outlines of a log-cabin came in view and at a peaked gate I shouted: “Hello!” You enter no mountaineer's yard without that announcing cry.
A Knight of the Cumberland John Fox Jr. 2008
From the Llam y Lleidyr I went to the canal and walked along it till I came to the house of the old man who sold coals, and who had put me in mind of Smollett’s Morgan; he was now standing in his little coal-yard, leaning over the pales.
Wild Wales George Borrow 1996

Quotes with PALES (3)

A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East. Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning’s flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself--and not a taper lighted at the hearthstone of the race, which pales before the light of common day.
Henry David Thoreau Walking
In theory, the risk of business failure can be reduced to a number, the probability of failure multiplied by the cost of failure. Sure, this turns out to be a subjective analysis, but in the process your own attitudes toward financial risk and reward are revealed. By contrast, personal risk usually defies quantification. It's a matter of values and priorities, an expression of who you are. "Playing it safe" may simply mean you do not weigh heavily the compromises inherent in …
Randy Komisar The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur
We all want relationships that are healthy and resolved, and sometimes that simply doesn't happen. But the beauty of life is that inside these disappointments are hidden the most miraculous of blessings. What we lose and what we might have been pales against what we have.
Laura Schroff An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 148 times in crossword archives (1949–2025).