Crossword-Solution: TAPERS 6 letters, 54 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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TAPERS anagram PASTER, PATERS, PATRES, PRATES, REPAST, RETAPS, TRAPES, TSAPRE

We have 54 clues for the answer “TAPERS”

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Narrows at the end 1 answer
Gets narrower 1 answer
Gets skinnier, in a way 1 answer
Gets thin, in a way 1 answer
Gets thinner toward one end 1 answer
Gets to the point? 1 answer
Gradually narrows 1 answer
Grows narrower 1 answer
Grows pointy 1 answer
Items in sconces 1 answer
Long waxed wicks 1 answer
Menorah inserts 1 answer
Narrows at one end 1 answer
Gets more narrow 1 answer
Narrows down 1 answer
Narrows gradually 1 answer
Narrows to a point 1 answer
Romantic table lights 1 answer
Service lights? 1 answer
Slim candles 1 answer
Some church lighting 1 answer
Thin candles 1 answer
Wax candles. 1 answer
Winds down, with "off" 1 answer
___ off (lessens gradually) 1 answer
enthusiasm for the subject tapered off 1 answer
Feeble lights 1 answer
Acuminates 1 answer
Becomes less gradually. 1 answer
Becomes narrower 1 answer
Becomes pointed 1 answer
Becomes smaller, as a finger. 1 answer
Candle lighters. 1 answer
Church candles 1 answer
Comes to the point? 1 answer
Decreases, with "off" 1 answer
Slender candles 2 answers
Comes to a point 2 answers
Narrows 2 answers
Makes a V 2 answers
Gradual diminutions 2 answers
Gradually lessens 2 answers
Gradually reduces 3 answers
Reduces gradually 3 answers
Gets thinner 5 answers
Makes a point 5 answers
Light sources 6 answers
A HOLDER WITH SOCKETS FOR CANDLES 10 answers
Candles Like prank 10 answers
A DECORATIVE WALL BRACKET FOR HOLDING CANDLES OR OTHER SOURCES OF LIGHT 10 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TAPERS (5)

The part held in the hand is nearly an inch in thickness; and, from the extreme end of the butt or handle, the cowskin tapers its whole length to a point.
My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass 1995
Below, I know the church is bright With haloed tapers, warm with prayer; But here I only feel the air Of icy centuries of night.
A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass Amy Lowell 2008
Sacred thou art, from pinnacle to base; And in thy panes of gold and scarlet glass The setting sun sees thousandfold his face; Sorrow and joy, in stately silence pass Across thy walls, the shadow and the light; Around thy lofty pillars, tapers white Illuminate, with delicate sharp flames, The brows of saints with venerable names, And in the night erect a fiery wall.
Main Street and Other Poems Alfred Joyce Kilmer 2008
Furthermore, concerning the consecration of wax-tapers, palm-branches, cakes, oats, [herbs,] spices, etc., which indeed, cannot be called consecrations, but are sheer mockery and fraud.
The Smalcald Articles Martin Luther 1995
When he came home to claim the throne of his hereditary kingdom, he brought with him tapers and black priests, and commanded the people to overthrow the altars of Odin and Thor and to believe alone in Christ the White.
Tales From Two Hemispheres Hjalmar Hjorth Boysen 1995

Quotes with TAPERS (3)

The dying tapers off now and then, but the War is still killing lots and lots of people. Only right now it is killing them in more subtle ways. Often in ways that are too complicated, even for us, at this level, to trace. But the right people are dying, just as they do when armies fight. The ones who stand up, in Basic, in the middle of the machine-gun pattern. The ones who do not have faith in their Sergeants. The ones who slip and show a moment's weakness to the Enemy. Thes…
Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow
I followed the other Experiment around, yesterday afternoon, at a distance, to see what it might be for, if I could. But I was not able to make [it] out. I think it is a man. I had never seen a man, but it looked like one, and I feel sure that that is what it is. I realize that I feel more curiosity about it than about any of the other reptiles. If it is a reptile, and I suppose it is; for it has frowzy hair and blue eyes, and looks like a reptile. It has no hips; it tapers l…
Mark Twain
The garden shimmered with candlelight from dozens of sweetly scented beeswax tapers set around to illuminate the space. In the center stood her painting table, now neatly draped in a crisp, white linen tablecloth and laid with her best china, crystal and silver. More lighted candles were arranged on the table, a small vase of flowers set in the middle, tender petals of red, pink and ivory adding a pleasing burst of color. More color glowed in the sky, sunset turning the horizon a glorious golden apricot.
Tracy Anne Warren Seduced By His Touch
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 86 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).