Crossword-Solution: PINCUSHION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pincushion | n. | A small cushion, in which pins may be stuck for use. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “PINCUSHION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Sewing-kit accessory | 1 answer |
| Sewer storage site? | 1 answer |
| It often gets needled? | 1 answer |
| Backup digits for the ATM? | 1 answer |
| Bowler's margin of comfort? | 1 answer |
| Etui's cousin? | 1 answer |
| Tailor's accessory | 2 answers |
| Sewing-box item | 2 answers |
| Seamstress's accessory | 2 answers |
| Point guard? | 2 answers |
| Sewer's accessory | 2 answers |
| Seamstress's aid | 3 answers |
| Sewing-kit item | 4 answers |
| It has holes | 4 answers |
| Sewing kit item | 7 answers |
| Sticking point | 20 answers |
| Padding | 57 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARTEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PINCUSHION (5)
The little, lop-sided cake at the church supper, the cheapest pincushion, the skimpiest apron at the bazaar, were always Mrs.
Upstairs she took the library key from the place where she always hid it under her pincushion--who said she wasn't careful?--put on her hat, and swept down again and out into the street.
Then they would find on the pincushion the letter she had written to her uncle, saying good-by and explaining that she had decided to remove forever the taint of her mother and herself from their house and their lives--a somewhat theatrical letter, modeled upon Ouida, whom she thought the greatest writer that had ever lived, Victor Hugo and two or three poets perhaps excepted.
But it won’t be easy, for it is a dreadful disappointment,” and poor Jo bedewed the little fat pincushion she held with several very bitter tears.
Tupman in full brigand’s costume, with a very tight jacket, sitting like a pincushion over his back and shoulders, the upper portion of his legs incased in the velvet shorts, and the lower part thereof swathed in the complicated bandages to which all brigands are peculiarly attached.
Quotes with PINCUSHION (2)
Silence. First it’s a cloud of apricot trees in flower, yellow or ivory, like a thousand little butterflies sown in the fresh grass, moving in the glow of lamplight when night ascends. Fragments of dreams. You can see the red sun setting on the foliage, like an enormous mass of incandescent steel. Then there were the trees a little farther off, straightening their fragile frames, the woolen blue pincushion flower like an eye and that tumult of milk in the deep stone, and fina…
Then the long nights, that were also days, in the hospital. And the long blanks, that were also nights. Needles, and angled glass rods to suck water through. Needles, and curious enamel wedges slid under your middle. Needles, and - needles and needles and needles. Like swarms of persistent mosquitoes with unbreakable drills. The way a pincushion feels, if it could feel. Or the target of a porcupine. Or a case of not just momentary but permanently endured static electricity af…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 21 times in crossword archives (1992–2021).