Crossword-Solution: STHENO
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| STHENO | anagram | ETHNOS, HESTON, HONEST, HONTES, SOTHEN, THESON |
We have 2 clues for the answer “STHENO”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Medusa's sister. | 1 answer |
| One of the three Gorgons | 1 answer |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEAG
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with STHENO (5)
Their names were Medūsa, Euryăle, and Stheno, and they are represented as having scales on their bodies, brazen hands, golden wings, tusks like boars, and snakes for hair.
The Gorgons, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, were the three daughters of Phorcys and Ceto, and were the personification of those benumbing, and, as it were, petrifying sensations, which result from sudden and extreme fear.
The funnel of the web was in the mouth Of a vast tomb, whose outside, hewn on rock, Outlined a Gorgon's face with jaws agape-- Some stern Medusa, Stheno, or Euryale, Changed to the stone that in the elder days She changed the sons of men who looked on her.
Myth.) Defn: One of three fabled sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, with snaky hair and of terrific aspect, the sight of whom turned the beholder to stone.
Hesiod increases the number of Gorgons to three--Stheno (the mighty), Euryale (the far-springer) and Medusa (the queen), and makes them the daughters of the sea-god Phorcys and of Keto.
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Appears in: NYT, Three Across.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1947–2006).