Crossword-Solution: ALCOVES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ALCOVES | anagram | COEVALS |
We have 27 clues for the answer “ALCOVES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Bookcase spots | 1 answer |
| Places for statuary | 1 answer |
| Room recesses | 1 answer |
| Nick Carter's retreats. | 1 answer |
| Mosques' mihrabs, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Dinette settings | 1 answer |
| Sites for bookcases | 1 answer |
| Breakfast places | 1 answer |
| Architectural setbacks | 1 answer |
| Architectural nooks | 1 answer |
| Sites for dinettes, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Small rooms from the Arabic for "vault" | 1 answer |
| Spots for bookcases | 1 answer |
| Statuary spots | 1 answer |
| Statue spots | 1 answer |
| Breakfast nooks | 2 answers |
| Architectural recesses | 2 answers |
| Cozy nooks. | 2 answers |
| Crannies | 3 answers |
| Nooks | 3 answers |
| DINETTE | 7 answers |
| BOOKCASE UNIT | 10 answers |
| Dinette spot | 10 answers |
| DINETTE PLACE | 10 answers |
| BOOKCASE LINEUP | 10 answers |
| DINETTE PIECE | 11 answers |
| Recesses | 12 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEATR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ALCOVES (5)
Two stories of the old house had been thrown into one: the lower space was divided into little alcoves; above, a gallery ran round the wall, which carried books to the ceiling.
Along the sides of the room were deep alcoves, like bay windows; and in each of these lay several marble-visaged babes, utterly hidden and buried under banks of fresh flowers, all but their faces and crossed hands.
Roman and Greek history have their alcoves, as have mediæval history and the reigns of the different Louis.
But instead of being plain, the walls are so deeply and elaborately carved into all sorts of recesses—alcoves, cirques, amphitheaters, and side cañons—that, were you to trace the rim closely around on both sides, your journey would be nearly a thousand miles long.
There are alcoves, rows on rows, shelves on shelves, with the exactest system everywhere prevailing, with the attendants moving about in list-bottomed shoes, fulfilling without the least hesitation or mistake the multitude of directions from the central desk.
Quotes with ALCOVES (3)
The dusty tombs of long-dead exorcist priests lay in the alcoves below, surmounted by stone effigies, the features eroded by the passing of time and the reverent caresses of their grateful parishioners, a reminder, she knew all too well, of the brevity of life.
Before I had a chance to feel too sorry for myself, I turned toward the front of the cabin and found the bookcases carved right into the wall. Hundreds of leather-bound volumes rested in dim alcoves. I had no idea what stories or information they held. It didn’t matter. I wanted to absorb anything they had to say.
Gankis lifted an arm to point at the distant shale cliffs. "And in the face of it there were thousands of little holes, little what-you-call-'ems...""Alcoves," Kennit supplied in an almost dreamy voice. "I call them alcoves, Gankis. As would you, if you could speak your own mother tongue.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 25 times in crossword archives (1946–2024).