Crossword-Solution: TRAPDOORS
We have 8 clues for the answer “TRAPDOORS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Accesses to attics, sometimes | 1 answer |
| Haunted house hazards | 1 answer |
| Secret entrances under carpets, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Secret exits for magicians | 1 answer |
| Secret exits represented five times in this puzzle's grid | 1 answer |
| Some secret exits | 1 answer |
| Stage exits | 1 answer |
| They might be hidden under rugs | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MAZECE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TRAPDOORS (5)
You don't know that Mason's and other hackers have been working on the Freedom viruses." "Some systems? Why not all?" "They still want to keep a few trapdoors for themselves." "See what I mean!" exclaimed Burnson.
Many of the gutters are covered with boards that open like trapdoors, and it is supplied with pumps surmounted with shining brass ornaments kept scoured and bright at the public cost.
Out of prison he had constantly had the officers of justice on his track; he had been forced to pay hushmoney to informers; he had stolen, in ignominious disguises, through windows and trapdoors, to meet his flock, and had, while pouring the baptismal water, or distributing the eucharistic bread, been anxiously listening for the signal that the tipstaves were approaching.
Hogarth’s pictures give some notion of it in the pre-Fielding days, the low roughs, the high-born bullies, the drunkenness, the villainies, the thieves’ kitchens with their riverside trapdoors, down which the body is thrust.
Then the stable is cleaned out through trapdoors, which let all the dirt fall into the lower storey, from which it can be carted away to manure the fields.
Quotes with TRAPDOORS (3)
But then life is never neat, it is made up of doors and trapdoors. You move down baroque corridors, and even when you think you know which door to open, you still need to have the courage to choose.
At what point,” he asked, “does one decide on rafters and a rope? Answer: no points to be had. There is merely what happened, what is now happening and what will one day happen. Do we choose sleep? Hell no and bullshit — we fall. We give ourselves over to possibility, to whim and fancy, to the bed, the pillow, the tiny white tablet. And these choose for us. Gravity has a hand. Bear in mind trapdoors. We fall in love, yes? Tumble, in fact. Is it choice? Enough said.
Only later did I come to understand that to be a mother is to be an illusion. No matter how vigilant, in the end a mother can't protect her child - not from pain, or horror, or the nightmare of violence, from sealed trains moving rapidly in the wrong direction, the depravity of strangers, trapdoors, abysses, fires, cars in the rain, from chance.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1996–2023).