Crossword-Solution: BALKANS
We have 16 clues for the answer “BALKANS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Tinderbox of Europe" | 1 answer |
| Albania, Bulgaria | 1 answer |
| Albania, Bulgaria, etc., with "the" | 1 answer |
| Bulgaria, Albania et al. | 1 answer |
| Bulgaria, Greece, etc. | 1 answer |
| Countries of SE Europe | 1 answer |
| Macedonia, Montenegro and others | 1 answer |
| Powder-keg area. | 1 answer |
| Region famed for instability | 1 answer |
| Serbia, Slovenia et al. | 1 answer |
| Setting of 1990s military conflicts | 1 answer |
| 1990s war locale | 3 answers |
| Allies may invade Europe here. | 3 answers |
| BULGARIAN mountain(s) | 4 answers |
| BULGARIA | 7 answers |
| AREA OF EUROPEAN CONCERN | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BALKANS (5)
For transmissions to neighbouring countries like Cyprus, Turkey, the Balkans and the countries of the Middle East, there are two rotatable log periodic antennas with a high angle of vertical radiation (45 degrees) and a wide angle of 32 degrees in the horizontal plane.
DEAR FAM: I had a great deal to tell you, but we have just received copies of the Panama Star and have read of the trolley riots in Brooklyn, a crisis in France, War in the Balkans, a revolution in Honolulu and another in Colombia.
When Carol talked about the Balkans, and the possibility of a German revolution, Kennicott yawned, “Oh yes, it's a great old scrap, but it's none of our business.
But there was a long article, reprinted from the _Times_, about Karolides and the state of affairs in the Balkans, though there was no mention of any visit to England.
Look at the recent wars in Europe, first between Italy and Turkey, and afterward in the Balkans, to say nothing of disturbances in China and other parts of the world.
Quotes with BALKANS (3)
May in Varanasi. 25° and wet. It's like the 6th circle of the inferno here, Edith - where they flail the arses off the howling heretics and the men who fuck marine life etc. NATO's stomping on the Balkans while India and Pakistan threaten one another with nukes. "Dead From the Waist Down" on MTV. The humidity's making me horny and mad. I miss Robin. In his new book, Ken Wilbur calls it "skin hunger". I feel like I'm building up a charge. Monsoon's on its way.
The debacle in Iraq has reinforced the realist dictum, disparaged by idealists in the 1990s, that the legacies of geography, history and culture really do set limits on what can be accomplished in any given place. But the experience in the Balkans reinforced an idealist dictum that is equally true: One should always work near the limits of what is possible rather than cynically give up on any place. In this decade idealists went too far; in the previous one, it was realists who did not go far enough.
That war [Bosnian war] in the early 1990s changed a lot for me. I never thought I would see, in Europe, a full-dress reprise of internment camps, the mass murder of civilians, the reinstiutution of torture and rape as acts of policy. And I didn't expect so many of my comrades to be indifferent - or even take the side of the fascists. It was a time when many people on the left were saying 'Don't intervene, we'll only make things worse' or, 'Don't intervene, it might destabilis…
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, Slate, WSJ.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1943–2021).