Crossword-Solution: PUBLICAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Publican | n. | A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation. |
| Publican | n. | The keeper of an inn or public house; one licensed to retail beer, spirits, or wine. |
We have 23 clues for the answer “PUBLICAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| person who owns or runs a pub | 1 answer |
| TAX collector (bibl.) | 1 answer |
| ROMAN tax collector | 1 answer |
| Landlord or landlady | 1 answer |
| British tavern keeper | 1 answer |
| British bar owner | 1 answer |
| BRITISH innkeeper | 1 answer |
| A person who owns or manages a pub | 1 answer |
| hotel owner | 2 answers |
| Tavern keeper | 2 answers |
| Tax collector | 2 answers |
| Landlady | 3 answers |
| Victualler | 4 answers |
| Tax man | 5 answers |
| hotelier | 5 answers |
| restaurateur | 6 answers |
| BREWER | 7 answers |
| bung | 10 answers |
| alewife | 11 answers |
| Landlord | 13 answers |
| Innkeeper | 14 answers |
| Land owner | 33 answers |
| caterer | 35 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with PUBLICAN (5)
The man on the bicycle was doubtless a member of those week-end parties at the Hall of which the publican had spoken, but who he was, or what he wanted, was as obscure as ever.
Out Back The old year went, and the new returned, in the withering weeks of drought, The cheque was spent that the shearer earned, and the sheds were all cut out; The publican's words were short and few, and the publican's looks were black -- And the time had come, as the shearer knew, to carry his swag Out Back.
The man on the bicycle was doubtless a member of those week-end parties at the Hall of which the publican had spoken; but who he was or what he wanted was as obscure as ever.
The horses were all at the whip as they turned into the straight, and then The Trickler and the publican's mare singled out.
TOMMY I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer, The publican 'e up an' sez, “We serve no red-coats here.” The girls be'ind the bar they laughed an' giggled fit to die, I outs into the street again an' to myself sez I: O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' “Tommy, go away”; But it's “Thank you, Mister Atkins”, when the band begins to play, The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play, O it's “Thank you, Mister Atkins”, when the band begins to play.
Quotes with PUBLICAN (3)
In 1963, when I assigned the name "quark" to the fundamental constituents of the nucleon, I had the sound first, without the spelling, which could have been "kwork." Then, in one of my occasional perusals of Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce, I came across the word "quark" in the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark." Since "quark" (meaning, for one thing, the cry of a gull) was clearly intended to rhyme with "Mark," as well as "bark" and other such words, I had to find an excus…
The liberal state has no view on whether witchcraft is more valuable than all-in wrestling. Like a tactful publican, it has as few opinions as possible. Many liberals suspect passionate convictions are latently authoritarian. But liberalism should surely be a passionate conviction. Liberals are not necessarily lukewarm. Only the more macho leftist suspects that they have no balls. You can be ardently neutral, and fiercely indifferent.
My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a light engineer, and a then a publican. My mum was a traditional housewife and mother. They showed my brother and I unconditional love.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1994–2022).