Crossword-Solution: ARCTURUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Arcturus | n. | A fixed star of the first magnitude in the constellation Bootes. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “ARCTURUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ALPHA Bootis | 1 answer |
| BOOTES, first magnitude star in | 1 answer |
| Fourth-brightest star in the sky | 1 answer |
| Giant fixed star of Bootes. | 1 answer |
| Great star in Boötes. | 1 answer |
| Guardian of the Bear | 1 answer |
| Guiding star for Hawaiian navigators of yore | 1 answer |
| NORTH American celestial hemisphere, brightest star in the | 1 answer |
| Star in the Plowman constellation | 1 answer |
| Very bright star | 2 answers |
| star in Bootes | 2 answers |
| RED giant of the first magnitude | 3 answers |
| STAR of the first magnitude | 9 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with ARCTURUS (5)
Sure he can recall What time together both we drove our flocks, He two, I one, on the Cithaeron range, For three long summers; I his mate from spring Till rose Arcturus; then in winter time I led mine home, he his to Laius’ folds.
Arcturus Arcturus brings the spring back As surely now as when He rose on eastern islands For Grecian girls and men; The twilight is as clear a blue, The star as shaken and as bright, And the same thought he gave to them He gives to me to-night.
XXVI He of Mount Alban is the first to say, They should not combat darkling, on the plain; But should their duel till such time delay As slow Arcturus should have turned his wain.
Compassed were her folk With wailing misery: through her streets the foe Exulted, as when madding blasts turmoil The boundless sea, what time the Altar ascends To heaven's star-pavement, turned to the misty south Overagainst Arcturus tempest-breathed, And with its rising leap the wild winds forth, And ships full many are whelmed 'neath ravening seas; Wild as those stormy winds Achaea's sons Ravaged steep Ilium while she burned in flame.
The suggestion to employ such an apparatus in astronomical observations occurs at once, and it may be noted that in one instance the heat of rays of light from the remote star Arcturus gave results.
Quotes with ARCTURUS (2)
There were spaceships again in that century, an dthe ships were manned by fuzzy impossibilities that walked on two legs and sprouted tufts of hair in unlikely anatomical regions. They were a garrulous kind. They belonged to a race quite capable of admiring its own image in a mirror, and equally capable of cutting its own throat before the altar of some tribal god, such as the deity of Daily Shaving. It was a species that considered itself to be, basically, a race of divinely …
There were spaceships again in that century, and the ships were manned by fuzzy impossibilities that walked on two legs and sprouted tufts of hair in unlikely anatomical regions. They were a garrulous kind. They belonged to a race quite capable of admiring its own image in a mirror, and equally capable of cutting its own throat before the altar of some god, such as the deity of Daily Shaving. It was a species which often considered itself to be, basically, a race of divinely …
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Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1944–2020).