Crossword-Solution: WINDUP
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| WINDUP | anagram | UPWIND |
We have 20 clues for the answer “WINDUP”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Get ready to start--or finish | 1 answer |
| Start of a pitch | 1 answer |
| Preparatory movements of Bob Feller, about to pitch. | 1 answer |
| Pitcher's procedure | 1 answer |
| Pitcher's prep | 1 answer |
| Pitcher's motion | 1 answer |
| Pitcher's arm-swinging motion. | 1 answer |
| Motion on the mound | 1 answer |
| Kind of toy that moves when you turn a key | 1 answer |
| End ... or start | 1 answer |
| Final act | 2 answers |
| Pitch preceder | 2 answers |
| Bring to a conclusion | 2 answers |
| Pitcher's motions. | 2 answers |
| Turn out to be. | 5 answers |
| last act | 9 answers |
| CONCLUSION PRECEDER | 10 answers |
| Conclu-sion | 59 answers |
| Terminate | 71 answers |
| End | 107 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WINDUP (5)
Her friend and schoolmate, Elsie Hicks, who married three drummers in one day, a week or two before, and won a wager of two dozen bottles of Budweiser from the handsome and talented young hack-driver, Bum Smithers, is promenading in and out the low French windows with Ethelbert Windup, the popular young candidate for hide inspector, whose name is familiar to every one who reads police court reports.
The play consisted of three acts, showing the progress of courtship and marriage at the altar, country and town life with growing children, work, poverty, and final windup of the husband driven from home by the scolding wife, bruised in an alehouse, dead and followed to the graveyard by the Beadle, undertaker and a brindle dog.
They had had some startling adventures in the last few weeks, and although several days had elapsed since the windup in these events and it seemed that a season of quiet, peaceful camp life was in store for them, still they were sufficiently keyed up to the unusual in life to accept surprises and astonishing climaxes as almost matters of course.
The lantern did not remain stationary more than a few seconds at a time, but kept up a swinging movement that was eccentric to say the least, now passing back and forth like the weighty pendulum in an old-fashioned "grandfather" clock; then with an up-and-down action and, as a windup performing a circular movement, repeated twice.
The hours range from six in the evening until midnight, and during the heated term is very popular as the windup of a trolley or automobile ride.
Quotes with WINDUP (3)
They passed a couple of guys making a bronze windup toy. At least that’s what it looked like. It was a six-inch-tall centaur — half man, half horse — armed with a miniature bow. One of the campers cranked the centaur’s tail, and it whirred to life. It galloped across the table, yelling, “Die, mosquito! Die, mosquito!” and shooting everything in sight.
What exists beneath the sea? I’d always pictured it in colors of emerald and aquamarine, where black velvet fish with sequined eyes swim among plankton. But, when my eyes adjust, I see gray stones, lost anchors, wet wood, buttons, hooks, and eyes, the salem witches who wouldn’t float, stars and stripes, missing vessels, windup toys, the souls of Romeo and Juliet, peaches, cream, pistons, screams, cages of ribs and birds, tunnels, nutcracker soldiers, satin bows, drugstore sig…
A precursor to the Social Darwinists, Hobbes argued from th premise that the primordial human condition was a war fought by each against each, so brutal and incesssant that it was impossible to develop industry or even agriculture or the arts while that condition persisted. It's this description that culmintes in his famous epithet "And the life of man, solitary, poor, brutish, and short." It was a fiction to which he brought to bear another fiction, that of the social contra…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1950–2023).