Crossword-Solution: TINDERBOX
We have 24 clues for the answer “TINDERBOX”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Fire hazard of a sort. | 1 answer |
| Explosive combination | 1 answer |
| Word for the pre-war Balkans | 1 answer |
| Volatile scenario | 1 answer |
| Thing that's highly explosive | 1 answer |
| Situation that is a potential source of violence | 1 answer |
| Potentially explosive region | 1 answer |
| Place of potential violence | 1 answer |
| Metaphor for a flammable situation | 1 answer |
| Kindle-enabled device? | 1 answer |
| Highly flammable object | 1 answer |
| Flint holder. | 1 answer |
| Explosive person or thing | 1 answer |
| Volatile situation | 2 answers |
| Excitable person | 2 answers |
| Potentially explosive situation | 3 answers |
| spitfire | 6 answers |
| Dangerous situation | 7 answers |
| A SITUATION THAT IS A POTENTIAL SOURCE OF VIOLENCE | 10 answers |
| ABSTAINING FROM THE USE OF VIOLENCE | 10 answers |
| A DANGEROUS STATE OF AFFAIRS | 11 answers |
| A PLACE OF POLITICAL UNREST AND POTENTIAL VIOLENCE | 11 answers |
| explosive situation | 12 answers |
| Hot spot | 38 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TRAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TINDERBOX (5)
Back, lurid in air, for a second regale, The Cinder King, hot with desire, To Brydges Street hied; but the Monarch of Ale, With uplifted spigot and faucet, and pail, Thus chided the Monarch of Fire: “Vile tyrant, beware of the ferment I brew; I rule the roast here, dash the wig o’ me! If, spite of your marriage with Old Drury, you Come here with your tinderbox, courting the New I’ll have you indicted for bigamy!” XIII.
With tears still wounding him, he searched the niche in the adjacent wall, until he found the tinderbox that he had left there.
Meanwhile the sentry, whose lantern had been extinguished and from the folds of whose garments its flint and tinderbox had been taken, had now been completely trussed up, and lay helpless and perforce silent against the wall of the shed.
She says he finds his way up to his room, in the dark, and the candle and a tinderbox are always placed handy for him there.
This live coal was sometimes lost and the tinderbox missing; then the man of the family would travel to the nearest house for a spark with which to kindle his lost fire.
Quotes with TINDERBOX (3)
A forest fire was making its way along the tinderbox ridges above them, flaring and shimmering against the overcast like the northern lights. Cold as it was he stood there a long time. The color of it moved something in him long forgotten. Make a list. Recite a litany. Remember.
Around me shone the kitchen I'd worked in each day: the copper pans hung neatly, the scratched wooden table and neat blue plates set in rows on the dresser. I got up to rake out the cinders and suddenly clutched at the black stone of the hearth. How long was it since as a new girl I'd first spiked a fowl and set it to roast on that fire? What great sides of beef had we roasted on the smoke-jack, while bacon dangled on hooks, and meat juices basted puddings as light as eggy cl…
New York City is a tinderbox. The Sons of the Serpent - a white supremacist group with a twisted history, deep pockets, and long reach - declared it a combat zone. As they have many times before, they're unashamedly ginning bigotry and hatred into violence and bloodshed. But this time, they've gotten smart about it. Instead of parading through the streets in hoods and robes... they've gone undercover. Dozens upon dozens of them, hiding inside the New York justice system so th…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1962–2024).