Crossword-Solution: QUICKSAND
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Quicksand | n. | Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure; especially, a deep mass of loose or moving sand mixed with water, sometimes found at the mouth of a river or along some coasts, and very dangerous, from the difficulty of extricating a person who begins sinking into it. |
We have 29 clues for the answer “QUICKSAND”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Mushy terrain | 1 answer |
| deep mass of loose wet sand that sucks anything on top of it into it | 1 answer |
| a treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy | 1 answer |
| Unsafe footing. | 1 answer |
| Treacherous trap. | 1 answer |
| Treacherous terrain | 1 answer |
| Treacherous situation that can trap and destroy | 1 answer |
| Treacherous ground. | 1 answer |
| Treacherous footing | 1 answer |
| TREACHEROUS area | 1 answer |
| Swamp hazard | 1 answer |
| Stuff that can give you a sinking feeling? | 1 answer |
| Something that gives you a sinking feeling | 1 answer |
| Sinking hazard in an adventure movie | 1 answer |
| Pitfall of sorts | 1 answer |
| Movie-serial hazard | 1 answer |
| Marsh hazard | 1 answer |
| It takes time to sink in | 1 answer |
| Intelligent beach material? | 1 answer |
| Hazard in jungle movies | 1 answer |
| George in a hurry? | 1 answer |
| Adventure film hazard | 1 answer |
| Jungle hazard | 2 answers |
| Bog material | 2 answers |
| It can give you a sinking feeling | 2 answers |
| Trap for the unwary | 3 answers |
| BUGGY TERRAIN | 10 answers |
| Marsh | 36 answers |
| Pitfall | 39 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETRA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with QUICKSAND (5)
How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs.
Between the two, shifting backwards and forwards at certain seasons of the year, lies the most horrible quicksand on the shores of Yorkshire.
How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling-tongs.
You must fight Death himself, though he come to you in pain or in joy; by the day, or the night; in safety or in peril! On your living soul I charge you that you do not die--nay, nor think of death--till this great evil be past.” The poor dear grew white as death, and shock and shivered, as I have seen a quicksand shake and shiver at the incoming of the tide.
She had pulled him from a quicksand bed,--made of cement that showed a strong tendency to "set" about his form before she could rescue him,--and she had fought with him on the edge of a cliff and had thrown him over; and his director, anxious for the "punch" that was his fetish, had insisted on a panorama of the fall, so that there was no chance for Gil to save himself the bruises he got.
Quotes with QUICKSAND (3)
True story This morning I jumped on my horse And went for a ride, And some wild outlaws chased me And shot me in the side. So I crawled into a wildcats cave To find a place to hide But some pirates found me sleeping there And soon they had me tied To a pole and built a fire Under me---I almost cried Till a mermaid came and cut me loose And begged to be my bride So I said id come back Wednesday But I must admit I lied. Then I ran into a jungle swamp But I forgot my guide And I…
I used to think love was two people suckingon the same straw to see whose thirst was stronger, but then I whiffed the crushed walnuts of your nape, traced jackals in the snow-covered tombstones of your teeth. I used to think love was a non-stop saxophone soloin the lungs, till I hung with you like a pair of sneakersfrom a phone line, and you promised to always smellthe rose in my kerosene. I used to think love was terminalpelvic ballet, till you let me jog beside while you pe…
The day you start giving yourself priority and catering to your own needs first, that day everything will fall in place. Most of us were taught (or believed) that taking care of your own needs first is being selfish. Nothing can be farther from the truth. Unless you look after yourself first, how can you look after others? It has been proved beyond reasonable doubt that if you want to help others, you have to take care of your own needs first. No, you are not being selfish by…
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 21 times in crossword archives (1956–2023).