Crossword-Solution: WAXWORK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Waxwork | n. | Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings. |
| Waxwork | n. | An American climbing shrub (Celastrus scandens). It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the seeds. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “WAXWORK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Candle material effigy | 1 answer |
| Figure made from candle material | 1 answer |
| Many a royal figure in Westminster Abbey | 1 answer |
| One might stand in a chamber of horrors | 1 answer |
| Still representation of a famous person | 1 answer |
| lifelike wax model of a (famous) person | 1 answer |
| Celebrity model? | 1 answer |
| Effigy | 15 answers |
| sculpture | 21 answers |
| Dummy | 81 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WAXWORK (5)
But though he might have been a waxwork when they were within four yards of him, he jumped up like a jack-in-the-box when they came within three, and said in a deferential, though not undignified, manner: “Will you step inside, gentlemen? I have no staff at present, but I can get you anything simple myself.” “Much obliged,” said Flambeau.
After the speech was ended, Mary carried me within; the captain’s hands were folded on his bosom, his face and head were composed; he looked as if he might speak at any moment; I have never seen this kind of waxwork so express or more venerable; and when I went away, I was conscious of a certain envy for the man who was out of the battle.
The places to which you, as a smug Briton, may or may not take a lady! The scale of wickedness allowed to the waxwork British lady is most charmingly graduated.
But I found no sign of him in the empty street, and no sign in the Earl’s Court Road, that looked as empty for all its length, save for a natural enemy standing like a waxwork figure with a glimmer at his belt.
The amateur tenor, whose vocal villainies All desire to shirk, Shall, during off-hours, Exhibit his powers To Madame Tussaud's waxwork.
Quotes with WAXWORK (2)
And then I recalled those mysterious stories about the waxworkers of the middle ages and the public reprobation attached to their trade. Did they not live in cellars, in the eternal twilight propitious for enchantments and apparitions? Their visionary art (who, more than they, evoked a truer image of life?) was closely related to that of magicians: bewitchments were carried out with wax figures, witch trials are full of them, and one particular legend haunted me above all, th…
Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2009–2017).