Crossword-Solution: QUIXOTE
We have 29 clues for the answer “QUIXOTE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Don of fiction | 1 answer |
| Subject for Picasso and Strauss | 1 answer |
| Spaniard who inspires Cyrano | 1 answer |
| Romantic man of La Mancha | 1 answer |
| Rocinante rider | 1 answer |
| Panza's partner | 1 answer |
| O'Toole's role in "Man of La Mancha" | 1 answer |
| Literary hero of 1605 | 1 answer |
| Impossible dreamer | 1 answer |
| Idealistic one | 1 answer |
| He tilted at windmills | 1 answer |
| Fictional hero on a horse | 1 answer |
| Extravagant romantic | 1 answer |
| Embodiment of impractical chivalry | 1 answer |
| Dulcinea's Don. | 1 answer |
| Companion of Panza | 1 answer |
| Cervantes's idealist | 1 answer |
| Cervantes hero | 1 answer |
| Another Don. | 1 answer |
| Adventurer accompanied by Panza | 1 answer |
| Romantic visionary | 2 answers |
| Rosinante's rider | 2 answers |
| O'Toole role | 2 answers |
| Impractical idealist | 3 answers |
| Man of La Mancha | 8 answers |
| BE EXTRAVAGANT | 11 answers |
| Believer | 34 answers |
| Idealist | 38 answers |
| Visionary | 93 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with QUIXOTE (5)
When this happens, you may feel like Don Quixote, as he was looking "for a needle in a bottle of hay." The large number of online offerings is bewildering.
Stowe, like that of Cervantes in Don Quixote and of Fielding in Joseph Andrews, overpowered the narrow specialty of her design, and expanded a local and temporary theme with the cosmopolitanism of genius." A half-century is not much in the life of a people; it is in time an inadequate test of the staying power of a book.
Bartholomew slaughter; Rabelais was not yet published; 'Don Quixote' was not yet written; Shakespeare was not yet born; a hundred long years must still elapse before Englishmen would hear the name of Oliver Cromwell.
Fortunat? No doubt, you mean a heroic idiot who passed through life with a lofty mien, clad in all the virtues, as stoical as Job, and as resigned as a martyr--a sort of moral Don Quixote, preaching the austerest virtue, and practising it? But, unfortunately, nobility of soul and of purpose are expensive luxuries, and I am a ruined man.
With the aid of a translator, Cervantes says, he is now bringing the story of Don Quixote's life back into the Spanish tongue.
Quotes with QUIXOTE (3)
When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The novel teaches us to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude.
Don Quixote could never manage without his patient servant Sancho Panza.
If you can see something, and it is wrong, you can fight it with a reasonable chance of success. Fighting the nonexistent is worse than pointless: Don Quixote tilted at windmills, but at least windmills are real.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, WSJ.
Used 27 times in crossword archives (1949–2021).