Crossword-Solution: QUICKSAND 9 letters, 29 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 25

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Word Word Type Definition
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”

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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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One who, or that which, eats.
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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.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1994
Between the two, shifting backwards and forwards at certain seasons of the year, lies the most horrible quicksand on the shores of Yorkshire.
The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1994
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.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 2008
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.
Dracula Bram Stoker 1995
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.
Jean of the Lazy A B. M. Bower 1996

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…
Shel Silverstein
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…
Jeffrey McDaniel
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…
Latika Teotia
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 21 times in crossword archives (1956–2023).