Crossword-Solution: BOOTLEGGER
We have 17 clues for the answer “BOOTLEGGER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Prohibition-era criminal | 1 answer |
| someone who makes or sells illegal liquor | 1 answer |
| Specialist of the 1920's. | 1 answer |
| Speakeasy's supplier | 1 answer |
| Speak-easy supplier | 1 answer |
| Rumrunner, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Rum-runner | 1 answer |
| Roaring Twenties' character | 1 answer |
| Relative of a black marketeer. | 1 answer |
| Prohibition profiteer | 1 answer |
| Prohibition era criminal | 1 answer |
| One running for work? | 1 answer |
| Liquor smuggler | 1 answer |
| Illicit-spirits dealer | 1 answer |
| Bathtub gin distiller | 1 answer |
| Salesman of sorts | 2 answers |
| Prohibition figure | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with BOOTLEGGER (5)
There are signs (though, unfortunately, in the wrong direction) that some of our younger college generation are already casting envious eyes toward the rich rewards, the social opportunities and the exciting life of the professional bootlegger.
Casey may be an easy mark--he may be the officious goat pro tem of every darn' bootlegger an' moonshiner an' every darn' cop that crosses his trail; but you can ask anybody if Casey Ryan don't do 'is own decidin'! "Before you go any further, young feller, I'll tell yuh just how fur Casey's in your game--an' that's as fur as Barstow.
And," he added with a smile, "if I had thought that you were a bootlegger or a crook of any other kind, I'd have had you in Las Vegas jail by this time.
How did he know that Mack Nolan wasn't another bootlegger, wanting to rope Casey in on a job for some fell purpose of his own? He had Mack Nolan's word and nothing more.
Returning to Los Angeles, even without a bootlegger's load, was not a matter which Casey liked to contemplate.
Quotes with BOOTLEGGER (3)
Reading wasn't an attempt to educate myself. It was my chief escape from a world that, although gorgeous in landscape and rich with mountain culture, didn't provide what I needed — the promise of adventure, a life beyond the perimeter of hills. I often fantasized that I'd been adopted and had mysterious powers such as flying or teleportation. Books offered the promise of a world in which misfits like me could flourish. Within the pages of a novel, I was unafraid: of my father…
If [a man] spent his money, say, in giving parties for his friends, they (we may hope) would get pleasure, and so would all those upon whom he spent money, such as the butcher, the baker, and the bootlegger. But if he spends it (let us say) upon laying down rails for surface cars in some place where surface cars turn out not to be wanted, he has diverted a mass of labor into channels where it gives pleasure to no one. Nevertheless, when he becomes poor through failure of his …
The Mania Speaks You clumsy bootlegger. Little daffodil. I watered you with an ocean and you plucked one little vein? Downed a couple bottles of pills and got yourself carted off to the ER? I gifted you the will of gunpowder, a matchstick tongue, and all you managed was a shredded sweater and a police warning? You should be legend by now. Girl in an orange jumpsuit, a headline. I built you from the purest napalm, fed you wine and bourbon. Preened you in the dark, hammered lul…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1957–2024).