Crossword-Solution: ANDROCLES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ANDROCLES | anagram | COLANDERS |
We have 12 clues for the answer “ANDROCLES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| He extracted a thorn from a lion's foot. | 1 answer |
| He met a friendly lion in the arena. | 1 answer |
| Legendary lion tamer? | 1 answer |
| Legendary thorn remover | 1 answer |
| Lion tamer of legend | 1 answer |
| Lion tamer of myth | 1 answer |
| Role for Alan Young. | 1 answer |
| Roman lion tamer. | 1 answer |
| Runaway slave in Roman legend who extracted a thorn from the paw of a lion | 1 answer |
| Shaw's lion tamer | 1 answer |
| Title character in an Aesop fable | 1 answer |
| Lion's friend | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETRA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ANDROCLES (5)
But shortly afterwards both Androcles and the Lion were captured, and the slave was sentenced to be thrown to the Lion, after the latter had been kept without food for several days.
The Emperor and all his Court came to see the spectacle, and Androcles was led out into the middle of the arena.
But as soon as he came near to Androcles he recognised his friend, and fawned upon him, and licked his hands like a friendly dog.
Carol, as chairman, said politely, “Have you any ideas about what play we'd better give first?” She waited for them to look abashed and vacant, so that she might suggest “Androcles.” Guy Pollock answered with disconcerting readiness, “I'll tell you: since we're going to try to do something artistic, and not simply fool around, I believe we ought to give something classic.
The ships of three Cyprian kings--Pnytagoras, king of Salamis, Androcles, king of Amathus, and Pasicrates, king of Curium[14402]--were at once run down and sunk.[14403] Many others were disabled; the rest fled, pursued by the Tyrians, and sought to reach the shore.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1950–2011).