Crossword-Solution: XIMENES
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| Spanish inquisitor | 1 answer |
| pseudonym of Derrick Somerset Macnutt, British crossword compiler who provided crosswords for The Observer | 1 answer |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
TEGAA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with XIMENES (5)
Farewell, colossal image of Evil and Corruption; farewell--to you who, if started on the right road, might have been greater than Ximenes, greater than Richelieu! You have kept your promises.
Through the kindness of one of his native or half-breed wives, who could talk a little Dutch, I managed, however, to get a lodging in a tumble-down house belonging to a dissolute person who called himself Don José Ximenes, but who was really himself a half-breed.
When the supper became a debauch, the guests began to sing, inspired by the Peralta and the Pedro-Ximenes.
For three generations there had been a great Lorrain warrior and a great Lorrain churchman; and, what is more singular, the churchmen all bore a strong resemblance in the face to Ximenes, as did Cardinal Richelieu in after days.
But modern parish registers were “discovered” (like America) in 1497, when Cardinal Ximenes found it desirable to put on record the names of the godfathers and godmothers of baptised children.