Crossword-Solution: ACCRUES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ACCRUES | anagram | ACCURSE, ACCUSER |
We have 22 clues for the answer “ACCRUES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Is built up gradually, as interest | 1 answer |
| Accumulates, as interest | 1 answer |
| Is added, like interest | 1 answer |
| Is added over time | 1 answer |
| Increases, as debt | 1 answer |
| Builds up, as interest | 1 answer |
| Comes by way of increase. | 1 answer |
| Earns over time | 1 answer |
| Grows, as interest | 1 answer |
| Gains (as interest) | 1 answer |
| Generates, as interest | 1 answer |
| Grows periodically | 1 answer |
| Grows over time | 1 answer |
| Mounts up | 2 answers |
| Earns, as interest | 2 answers |
| Grows | 7 answers |
| Adds up | 7 answers |
| Builds up | 9 answers |
| A DECORATION OF COLOR OR INTEREST THAT IS ADDED TO RELIEVE PLAINNESS | 11 answers |
| Builds | 12 answers |
| Accumulates | 14 answers |
| Increases | 30 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
OCERAN
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with ACCRUES (5)
Coppinger; and whatever revenue accrues from readers, goes to the finder of the original talc-upon-wax sheets, myself.
The benefit that accrues hereby is this: it heateth and chafeth their bodies, and it breaketh the fat and glut that is within them.
The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law and some good repute accrues to him from his increased wealth and from his spending the irregularly acquired possessions in a seemly manner.
His livery is of a very expensive character, as it should be in order to set forth in a beseeming manner the dignity of his exalted master; but it is contrived to show that the wearing of it contributes little or nothing to the physical comfort of the wearer, for it is an item of vicarious consumption, and the repute which accrues from its consumption is to be imputed to the absent master, not to the servant.
EUTHYPHRO: And do you imagine, Socrates, that any benefit accrues to the gods from our gifts? SOCRATES: But if not, Euthyphro, what is the meaning of gifts which are conferred by us upon the gods? EUTHYPHRO: What else, but tributes of honour; and, as I was just now saying, what pleases them? SOCRATES: Piety, then, is pleasing to the gods, but not beneficial or dear to them? EUTHYPHRO: I should say that nothing could be dearer.
Quotes with ACCRUES (3)
Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amount of privilege and therefore we have a huge amount of responsibility. We live in free societies where we are not afraid of the police; we have extraordinary wealth available to us by global standards. If you have those things, then you have the kind of responsibility that a person does not have if he or she is slaving seventy hours a week to put food on the table; a responsibi…
My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind — like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.
I've been fascinated over the years by the way refrains work. Think, say, of the refrains in Yeats' ballads. Ideally, each time the refrain comes back in a poem, it is both the same and different. It works by counterpoint and reiteration. It accrues meaning.
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Onion, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 24 times in crossword archives (1965–2025).