Crossword-Solution: TARRY 5 letters, 71 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Tarry n. Consisting of, or covered with, tar; like tar.
Tarry v. i. To stay or remain behind; to wait.
Tarry v. i. To delay; to put off going or coming; to loiter.
Tarry v. i. To stay; to abide; to continue; to lodge.
Tarry v. t. To delay; to defer; to put off.
Tarry v. t. To wait for; to stay or stop for.
Tarry n. Stay; stop; delay.

We have 71 clues for the answer “TARRY”

Clue Answers
linger or delay 1 answer
Stick around too long 1 answer
Stall for time, perhaps 1 answer
Linger or loiter 1 answer
Linger in expectation 1 answer
Leave slowly and hesitantly 1 answer
Delay leaving 1 answer
Be reluctant to go 1 answer
Be in no rush 1 answer
Stick around awhile 2 answers
Linger around 2 answers
Drag one's heels 2 answers
LINGER too long 2 answers
Remain at a place temporarily 2 answers
"Don't run off" 2 answers
Linger longer 3 answers
Take one's time 3 answers
BE late 3 answers
remain behind 3 answers
Hang around idly 3 answers
Take one's sweet time 4 answers
Wait around 5 answers
HANG about 6 answers
Stay awhile 6 answers
Lallygag 7 answers
BE A SLOWPOKE 8 answers
gain time 8 answers
Don't go 9 answers
Potter 9 answers
BACK HANG 10 answers
AWHILE 10 answers
Lollygag 10 answers
BE RELUCTANT 10 answers
AROUND STICK 10 answers
A LENGTH OF TIME TO HANG AROUND ROWDY BAR IN REFUGE 10 answers
AROUND HANG 10 answers
AROUND FOR HANG 10 answers
Drag one's feet 11 answers
stick around 12 answers
Straggle 12 answers
Bide-___ 13 answers
Sojourn 14 answers
Vegetate 15 answers
Loll 16 answers
Dilly-dally 18 answers
take time 19 answers
*Fall behind 19 answers
Hang around 22 answers
prorogue 23 answers
protract 25 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 TARRY (5)

Heed then; I fain would see thee out of harm; For by the looks, marred though they be by fate, I judge thee noble; tarry where thou art, While I go seek the burghers—those at hand, Not in the city.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
Dimmesdale longed at least to shake hands with the tarry blackguard, and recreate himself with a few improper jests, such as dissolute sailors so abound with, and a volley of good, round, solid, satisfactory, and heaven-defying oaths! It was not so much a better principle, as partly his natural good taste, and still more his buckramed habit of clerical decorum, that carried him safely through the latter crisis.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
Nicholas when they crossed, there lies a small market town or rural port, which by some is called Greensburgh, but which is more generally and properly known by the name of Tarry Town.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving 1992
The Spirit did not tarry here, but bade Scrooge hold his robe, and passing on above the moor, sped--whither? Not to sea? To sea.
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1992
Before her was a small cauldron standing over a low fire and in it bubbled a thick, reddish, tarry mass.
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Quotes with TARRY (3)

Drualt took Freya's warm hand, Her strong hand, Her sword hand, And pressed it to his lips, Pressed it to his heart. Come with me,' he said. Come with me to battle, My love. Tarry at my side. Stay with me When battle is done. Tarry at my side. Laugh with me, And walk with me The long, long way. Tarry with me, My love, at my side.
Gail Carson Levine The Two Princesses of Bamarre
The vision is always for the appointed time. Though it tarry, it will not fail. It shall surely come to pass in perfect moment.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. One by one, as they march, our comrades vanish form our sight, seized by the silent orders of omnipotent Death. Very brief is the time in which we can help them, in which their happiness or misery is decided. Be it ours to shed sunshine on their path, to lighten their sorrows by the balm of s…
Bertrand Russell
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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 120 times in crossword archives (1971–2025).