Crossword-Solution: ALLUSIONS
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ALLUSIONS (5)
She was too clever to overdo her part, and made no further allusions to the supposed _billet doux_, which had caused Sir Andrew Ffoulkes such an agonising five minutes.
Not long after, as Tom, all undressed for bed, was surveying his drenched garments by the light of a tallow dip, Sid woke up; but if he had any dim idea of making any “references to allusions,” he thought better of it and held his peace, for there was danger in Tom’s eye.
But, there my Lord interposed (with as grave a face as if it had not been true), saying that he could not sit upon that Bench and suffer those allusions.
The lady’s allusions to her past, and her refusal to take her husband into her confidence, both pointed in that direction.
She talked in a sweet, soft voice, used language at times a trifle superfine, and made literary allusions.
Quotes with ALLUSIONS (3)
Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle.
The individual parts played by other instrumentalists-- crickets or earthworms, for instance-- may not have the sound of music by themselves, but we hear them out of context. If we could listen to them all at once, fully orchestrated, in their immense ensemble, we might become aware of the counterpoint, the balance of tones and timbres and harmonics, the sonorities. The recorded songs of the humpback whale, filled with tensions and resolutions, ambiguities and allusions, inco…
[P]art of the pleasure of engaging with a writer is unraveling some allusions and admitting defeat by others.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NY Sun, NYT, WP.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1974–2005).