Crossword-Solution: THUMBTACKS
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| Bulletin-board adjuncts | 1 answer |
| Sharp bulletin-board stickers | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERTA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with THUMBTACKS (4)
The underlying metaphor may be that of a rubber band stretched through a number of intermediate points; if you remove all the thumbtacks in the middle, it snaps into a straight line from first to last.
Fasten the different parts on a smooth surface by means of thumbtacks and knit to measure, without stretching your work.
Mimms then took the card down to the main floor and attached it to a bulletin board with four thumbtacks.
The poles were placed on the ground, and to each of them an end of the strip of sheeting was secured with the thumbtacks.
Quotes with THUMBTACKS (3)
He walked steadily, feeling them behind him. His stride did not falter; he pretended they weren’t there. He pretended that all was well — that those hideous things knew nothing about what he had done earlier in the night. But each pumpkin he passed nearly leapt off its porch or railing or wooden chair, expanded and morphed and throbbed as if in a funhouse mirror, and joined the procession behind him. The wind picked up, suddenly and fiercely, and construction paper decoration…
I'm unable to tell you what it feels like to be "a little" mad. My emotions work as if controlled by a light switch. I'm either fine or I'm out of control. I once spilled a container of thumbtacks and got as angry at myself as I did when I screwed up my relationship with my high school sweetheart. If I'm under the impression that there are Golden Grahams in my cupboard, then realize that there in fact are none, there's a high probability I'll be as sad as I was at my grandfat…
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1989–2023).