Crossword-Solution: PANTAGRUEL
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Gargantua, son of | 1 answer |
| Rabelais romance. | 1 answer |
| Son of Gargantua | 1 answer |
| Rabelais giant | 2 answers |
| Rabelaisian giant | 2 answers |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
AATGE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with PANTAGRUEL (5)
Dubois wrote the word Pantagruel, in perfectly distinct roman characters; then placing himself behind the somnambule, he presented the card close to her occiput.
And of these some wore red crosses on their garments, which meaneth “Salvation;” and others wore white crosses, with a little black button of crape, to signify “Purity;” and others bits of blue to mean “Abstinence.” While some of these pursued Panurge others did beset Pantagruel; asking him very long questions, whereunto he gave but short answers.
You hear his manly laughter, you hear his mighty hands approving, you see the tears he sheds when he had "slain Porthos"--great tears like those of Pantagruel.
And on the dresser, and before the fire, whole hecatombs of fragrant victims, which needed neither frankincense nor myrrh; Clovelly herrings and Torridge salmon, Exmoor mutton and Stow venison, stubble geese and woodcocks, curlew and snipe, hams of Hampshire, chitterlings of Taunton, and botargos of Cadiz, such as Pantagruel himself might have devoured.
They bring their boyish faith into a place (if one may quote Pantagruel’s voyage once more) like the Isle of the Macraeones.
Quotes with PANTAGRUEL (1)
The problem with a lot of people who read only literary fiction is that they assume fantasy is just books about orcs and goblins and dragons and wizards and bullshit. And to be fair, a lot of fantasy is about that stuff. The problem with people in fantasy is they believe that literary fiction is just stories about a guy drinking tea and staring out the window at the rain while he thinks about his mother. And the truth is a lot of literary fiction is just that. Like, kind of p…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1962–1983).