Crossword-Solution: TACKS 5 letters, 86 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Executes a sailing maneuver 1 answer
Sails a zigzag course 1 answer
Pushpins, e.g. 1 answer
Pushpins 1 answer
Poster holders 1 answer
Poster fasteners 1 answer
Ones with big heads around the office? 1 answer
Nautical maneuvers 1 answer
Fliers' holders 1 answer
Flat-headed fasteners 1 answer
Flat tire causes 1 answer
Sails in a zigzag way 1 answer
Changes the course of a sloop 1 answer
Changes course, nautically 1 answer
Carpeting supply 1 answer
Carpet securers 1 answer
Carpet nails 1 answer
Carpet hardware 1 answer
Carpet fasteners 1 answer
Bulletin-board supply 1 answer
Bulletin-board stickers 1 answer
Bulletin-board need 1 answer
Thumb and carpet 1 answer
Zigzags: naut. 1 answer
Zigzags on a cat 1 answer
Zigzag movements 1 answer
Upholstery fasteners 1 answer
Turns at sea 1 answer
Turns a ship 1 answer
Turns a sailboat 1 answer
Tire deflaters 1 answer
Thumbnails 1 answer
Thumb nails 1 answer
Bulletin-board fasteners 1 answer
They support your hang-ups 1 answer
The really important brass. 1 answer
Temporary stitches 1 answer
Shifts policy abruptly 1 answer
Sews on, in a way. 1 answer
Sews on with basting stitches. 1 answer
Secures in a hasty manner. 1 answer
Secures a carpet 1 answer
Sails into the wind, say 1 answer
Bulletin-board attachments 1 answer
Adds, with "on" 1 answer
After carpet or thumb 1 answer
Attaches with on 1 answer
Brass ___ (basic facts). 1 answer
Brass ___: essentials 1 answer
Brass and hard 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEART
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TACKS (5)

Albert Edward’s conduct was a popular subject of discussion among railroad men in those days, and as Ray pulled the tacks out of this lithograph he felt more indignant with the English than ever.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
See! see! (I cried) she tacks no more! Hither to work us weal; Without a breeze, without a tide, She steadies with upright keel! The western wave was all a-flame The day was well nigh done! Almost upon the western wave Rested the broad bright Sun; When that strange shape drove suddenly Betwixt us and the Sun.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2006
Her captain had lost no time in taking in his studding sails; halyards, tacks, and sheets had all been cut together and dropped overboard.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various 2008
The necessary preparations were accordingly made, while the vessel made short tacks on the southern side of the rock, in comparatively smooth water.
Records of a Family of Engineers Robert Louis Stevenson 2010
But as every wealthy American and “smart” Englishwoman passing the spring in Paris rushed for that too open circle, like tacks toward a magnet, it was finally cut by the “Duchesses,” who, together with such attractive aides-de-camp as the Princesse de Poix, Mmes.
The Ways of Men Eliot Gregory 2008

Quotes with TACKS (3)

You think one's any different from the next? I mean, when it comes right down to brass tacks, people killing each other since they figured out how, that's all. Give them pretty names and numbers, but it's all the same to the worms.
Caitlin R. Kiernan Threshold
Here was a man who'd learned to write before he could think, a man who threw out logical fallacies like tacks behind a getaway car, and he always always always got away.
Helen DeWitt The Last Samurai
In the nineteenth century, The Romantics viewed Nature as benign, a glowing reflection of God's grace. Now we know better. Nature is brutal and, if it is feminine, she's not the kind of woman you can trust. Human beings may be her finest achievement yet, but when you get right down to brass tacks, we're meat. AIDS and organisms like streptococcus don't give a crap that we subdued the earth or produced a Shakespeare...
Rick Yancey
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 97 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).