Crossword-Solution: BURGLAR 7 letters, 32 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Burglar n. One guilty of the crime of burglary.

We have 32 clues for the answer “BURGLAR”

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Building robber 1 answer
Raffles. 1 answer
Raffles, e.g. 1 answer
Thief of the breaking-and-entering variety 1 answer
One breaking and entering 1 answer
Man in a police line-up. 1 answer
Guard dog's target 1 answer
Criminal detected by some alarms 1 answer
Alarm target 1 answer
person who enters a building to commit a crime, esp theft 1 answer
a thief who enters a building with intent to steal 1 answer
peterman 2 answers
Fence supplier 3 answers
picklock 5 answers
cracksman 5 answers
housebreaker 7 answers
Yegg 7 answers
Prowler. 7 answers
Second-story man 8 answers
nimmer 9 answers
pilferer 9 answers
purloiner 9 answers
"Robin ___" 9 answers
filcher 10 answers
larcenist 10 answers
Detected 11 answers
Cause for alarm? 15 answers
Prig 18 answers
stealer 20 answers
thief 51 answers
- cat 52 answers
Robber 52 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BURGLAR (5)

You satisfy an assassin’s conscience in one way, a philanthropist’s in another, a miser’s in another, a burglar’s in still another.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
The Welshman started—stared in return—three seconds—five seconds—ten—then replied: “Of burglar’s tools.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
Then—“And who do you reckon the murdered man _was?_ It was—_Jake_ Dunlap, the long-lost burglar!” “Great Scott!” “And the man that buried him was—_Brace_ Dunlap, his brother!” “Great Scott!” “And who do you reckon is this mowing idiot here that’s letting on all these weeks to be a deef and dumb stranger? It’s—_Jubiter_ Dunlap!” [Illustration: And there was the murdered man.] My land, they all busted out in a howl, and you never see the like of that excitement since the day you was born.
Tom Sawyer, Detective Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
The thought flashed across me that I might have before me a burglar or cut-throat, some monstrous Irregular Isosceles, who, by feigning the voice of a Circle, had obtained admission somehow into the house, and was now preparing to stab me with his acute angle.
Flatland Edwin A. Abbott 1994
Why any burglar should take such a thing passes my understanding, for it was only a plaster cast and of no real value whatever.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1994

Quotes with BURGLAR (3)

There was this book Dad used to read to me every night called "The Giving Tree." It was a really good book, but the back of it had a picture of the author, this guy named Shel Silverstein. But Shel Silverstein looks more like a burglar or a pirate than a guy who should be writing books for kids. Dad must have known that picture kind of freaked me out, because one night after I got out of bed, Dad said: "IF YOU GET OUT OF BED AGAIN TONIGHT, YOU'LL PROBABLY RUN INTO SHEL SILVER…
Jeff Kinney The Last Straw
You can go back to blacksmithing in Hintindar and live a quiet happy life. Do me a favor and marry some pretty farm girl and train your son to beat the crap out of imperial knights.""Sure," Hadrian told him. "And with any luck he'll make friends with a cynical burglar who'll do nothing but torment him.
Michael J. Sullivan Percepliquis
Every time you open a book for the first time, there is something akin to safe-breaking about it. Yes, that's exactly it: the frantic reader is like a burglar who has spent hours digging a tunnel to enter the strongroom of a bank. He emerges face to face with hundreds of strongboxes, all identical, and opens them one by one. And each time a box is opened, it loses its anonymity and becomes unique: one is filled with paintings, another with a bundle of banknotes, a third with …
Jacques Bonnet Phantoms on the Bookshelves
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Three Across, USA TODAY.

Used 12 times in crossword archives (1954–2022).