Crossword-Solution: SINKERS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SINKERS | anagram | RESINKS, SERKINS |
We have 18 clues for the answer “SINKERS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Doughnuts, in diners | 1 answer |
| Weighty fishing gear | 1 answer |
| Small lead weights | 1 answer |
| Pitches that drop as they near home plate | 1 answer |
| Pitches from Pelfrey | 1 answer |
| Line weights | 1 answer |
| Fishing weights | 1 answer |
| Doughnuts: Slang. | 1 answer |
| Donuts, in slang | 1 answer |
| Anglers' weights | 1 answer |
| Doughnuts | 2 answers |
| Fishing gadgets. | 2 answers |
| Lead weights | 2 answers |
| Low pitches? | 2 answers |
| Breakfast fare: Colloq. | 2 answers |
| Fishermen's gear | 3 answers |
| Fishing tackle. | 4 answers |
| Some pitches | 8 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SINKERS (5)
You don't say 'catch,' you say 'kill'--technical detail." Then they bought their tackle: a couple of cheap reels, lines, leaders, sinkers, a book of assorted flies that the delightful clerk suggested, and a beautiful little tin box painted green, and stenciled with a gorgeous gold trout upon the lid, in which they were to keep the pint of salted shrimps to be used as bait in addition to the flies.
Condy took off his coat and made a great show of stringing the tackle: winding the lines from the spools on to the reels, and attaching the sinkers and flies to the leaders, smoking the while, and scowling fiercely.
According to tradition, the first frame he made was a twelve gauge, without lead sinkers, and it was almost wholly of wood; the needles being also stuck in bits of wood.
Ashton is said to have introduced the method of making the frames with lead sinkers, which was a great improvement.
The pie she took to the pie supper at the church was so tough that even Deacon Dyer couldn't eat it; and the boys got holt of her doughnuts, and declared they was goin' fishin' next day 'n' use 'em for sinkers.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1948–2025).