Crossword-Solution: SPINSTERS
We have 12 clues for the answer “SPINSTERS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Arsenic and Old Lace" aunts, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Bachelors' sexist counterparts | 1 answer |
| Certain loners | 1 answer |
| Hip publicists? | 1 answer |
| Relatives of bachelor girls. | 1 answer |
| Unmarried women, once | 1 answer |
| Unmarried women | 2 answers |
| Maidens | 3 answers |
| ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (FILM) CAST | 10 answers |
| Arsenic | 13 answers |
| Misses. | 18 answers |
| ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (FILM) ROLE | 19 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MEZECA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SPINSTERS (5)
When she sat down to a basketful of their stockings, every heel with a hole in it, she would fling up her arms and exclaim, “Oh dear, I am sure I sometimes think spinsters are to be envied!” Her face beamed when she exclaimed this.
There are bachelors by nature and bachelors by circumstance: spinsters there doubtless are also of both kinds, though some think only those of the latter.
You will be interested to hear that I have temporarily placed out Punch with two charming spinsters who have long been tottering on the brink of a child.
These spinsters, although loving sisters, no longer go about together, Caligula’s nerves being so shaken that solitude upsets them.
Stout matrons became slender girls again; worn spinsters felt their cheeks flush with the tenderness of their lost youth.
Quotes with SPINSTERS (3)
Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason.
When posing for a photograph, spinsters should avoid looking desperate or deprived. A serene smile will show that your circumstances are by choice and not for lack of beauty or character. -Miss Gertrude Hasslebrink, 1878
No, what Great Aunt Winifred was suffering from was the persecution every happily single woman suffers: the predictable social condemnation of her independence and childlessness. Dorothy reminded herself of what she'd learned during a university course on feminist history (with a strong Marxist slant): spinsters are a threat to patriarchy.
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1958–2019).