Crossword-Solution: BESETS
We have 23 clues for the answer “BESETS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Comes at from all sides | 1 answer |
| Troubles persistently | 1 answer |
| Troubles constantly | 1 answer |
| Threatens persistently | 1 answer |
| Plagues with troubles | 1 answer |
| Places under siege | 1 answer |
| Lays siege to | 1 answer |
| Is plagued (by) | 1 answer |
| Gives, as problems | 1 answer |
| Attacks on all sides | 1 answer |
| Attacks from every angle | 1 answer |
| Attacks from all sides | 1 answer |
| Falls upon | 2 answers |
| Puts under siege | 2 answers |
| Harries | 4 answers |
| Hems in | 6 answers |
| Assails | 10 answers |
| Harasses | 11 answers |
| Plagues | 12 answers |
| Surrounds | 17 answers |
| Troubles | 25 answers |
| Attacks | 25 answers |
| Dog's ___ | 27 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BESETS (5)
Intensely nervous, and feeling much of that shame at the exercise of the higher intelligence which besets those who are known to be renowned in field sports, Gordon produced his poems shyly, scribbled them on scraps of paper, and sent them anonymously to magazines.
When, in his mingled dislike and admiration, he had begun to study his sister-in-law, and the half-amused weaving of the small plots which would make things sufficiently unpleasant to be used as factors in her removal from the scene, if necessary, he had not calculated, ever so remotely, on the chance of that madness besetting him which usually besets men only in their youth.
LXV He all this while had made his guard delay The knight with words, till horse and foot he spied Arrived, where he this ambuscade did lay; When from the gate he with as many hied: As is the practised hunter's wonted way, To circle wood and beasts on every side: As nigh Volana, with his sweeping nets, The wary fisher fish and pool besets.
The risk of too great familiarity with an audience which insists on honouring the artist irrelevantly, at the expense of the art, must be run by all; a more clinging evil besets the actor, in that he can at no time wholly escape from his phantasmal second self.
For he may unawares have allowed the habitualness that besets this multitudinous life to take the pen from his hand and to write for him a page or a word; and habitualness compels our refusals.
Quotes with BESETS (3)
It is the absence of the knowledge of God and man’s refusal to obey Him that lie at the root of every problem which besets us.
Fear is one of the persistent hounds of hell that dog the footsteps of the poor, the dispossessed, the disinherited. There is nothing new or recent about fear — it is doubtless as old as the life of man on the planet. Fears are of many kinds — fear of objects, fear of people, fear of the future, fear of nature, fear of the unknown, fear of old age, fear of disease, and fear of life itself. Then there is fear which has to do with aspects of experience and detailed states of mi…
If I give with the motive to get, regardless of the degree to which that motive besets me, I will walk away impoverished and I will leave those to whom I have given just as impoverished as I have now found myself.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 75 times in crossword archives (1971–2025).