Crossword-Solution: PERSEPHONE
We have 12 clues for the answer “PERSEPHONE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| DESPOINA | 1 answer |
| Goddess who serves as a major character in 2019's "Hadestown" | 1 answer |
| Greek queen of the underworld | 1 answer |
| HADES, wife of | 1 answer |
| Mythical wife of Hades | 1 answer |
| Proserpina | 1 answer |
| Queen of the infernal regions | 1 answer |
| made queen of the underworld by Pluto in ancient mythology | 1 answer |
| Queen of the Underworld in Greek mythology | 1 answer |
| PLUTO, wife of | 2 answers |
| Pluto wife | 2 answers |
| wife Pluto | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PERSEPHONE (5)
And again: O heavens! verily in the house of Hades there is soul and ghostly form but no mind at all! Again of Tiresias:-- [To him even after death did Persephone grant mind,] that he alone should be wise; but the other souls are flitting shades.
But they who wake the meadows and the tides Have hearts too kind to bid him wake from sleep Who murmurs sometimes when his dreams are deep, Startling the Quiet Land where he abides, And charming still, sad-eyed Persephone With visions of the sunny earth and sea.
For he went down (they say beneath the earth) with that bold Peirithoos his friend to help him to carry off Persephone, the queen of the world below.
Once Demeter in the black anguish of her desolation searched for lost Persephone by the light of Hecate’s torch; and searching all in vain, spurned beneath her empty feet an earth barren of her smile; froze with set brows the merry brooks and streams; and smote forest, and plain, and fruitful field, with the breath of her last despair, until even Iambe’s laughing jest was still.
BETWEEN the circling ocean sea And the poplars of Persephone There lies a strip of barren sand, Flecked with the sea’s last spray, and strown With waste leaves of the poplars, blown From gardens of the shadow land.
Quotes with PERSEPHONE (3)
In older myths, the dark road leads downward into the Underworld, where Persephone is carried off by Hades, much against her will, while Ishtar descends of her own accord to beat at the gates of Hell. This road of darkness lies to the West, according to Native American myth, and each of us must travel it at some point in our lives. The western road is one of trials, ordeals, disasters and abrupt life changes — yet a road to be honored, nevertheless, as the road on which wisdo…
They’ve kept the truth about Persephone a secret, burying it deep below Hercules’s murdered wifeand all of Zeus’s affairs. It’s dangerous, you see, a spark threatening to ignite a long dead flame. Power. She loved her power, the Queen of the Dead, to forever reign in the fires of hell. She wore her crown like a beacon; a beautiful queen, plotting against her king. They never wanted youto know the hunger of Persephone, how she starved for something other than pomegranates. Con…
It had to unleash some invisible magic, he thought; Hades and Persephone, joining together again within these black and holy stone walls, for the first time in millennia. As they indulged in enjoying one another, how could they not be reactivating some power within the Earth itself? Surely they were at least bringing autumn storm clouds rolling and thundering over the Mediterranean. But probably every boy felt that way when finally in bed caressing the girl he loved.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1978–2024).