Crossword-Solution: CARNELIAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Carnelian | n. | A variety of chalcedony, of a clear, deep red, flesh red, or reddish white color. It is moderately hard, capable of a good polish, and often used for seals. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “CARNELIAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Birthstone for zodiac sign Virgo | 1 answer |
| Claire Ann (anag) – reddish-orange semi-precious stone | 1 answer |
| Reddish gem | 2 answers |
| Red cross member? | 2 answers |
| Red chalcedony | 2 answers |
| sard | 3 answers |
| cornelian | 3 answers |
| Red quartz | 4 answers |
| Reddish-orange | 5 answers |
| Red gem | 5 answers |
| Variety of quartz | 9 answers |
| CHALCEDONY GEM | 10 answers |
| brownish red quartz | 10 answers |
| chalcedony quartz | 10 answers |
| A TRANSLUCENT RED OR ORANGE VARIETY OF CHALCEDONY | 10 answers |
| August birthstone | 11 answers |
| Chalcedony | 11 answers |
| BIRTHSTONE | 13 answers |
| Semi-precious stone | 18 answers |
| Quartz | 24 answers |
| BIRTHSTONE (in order of month) | 25 answers |
| Gem | 62 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CARNELIAN (5)
Shall pearls roll out, lustrous and white and wan? Lapis? carnelian? Unheard-of stones that make the sick mind reel With wonder of their beauty? Rubies, then? Green emeralds, glittering like the eyes of beasts? Poisonous opals, good to madden men? Gold bezants, ten and ten? Hard, regal diamonds, like kingly feasts? He tugged; the seal gave way.
One discovered that money couldn’t keep shame and sorrow out of rich people’s houses, another that, though she was poor, she was a great deal happier, with her youth, health, and good spirits, than a certain fretful, feeble old lady who couldn’t enjoy her comforts, a third that, disagreeable as it was to help get dinner, it was harder still to go begging for it and the fourth, that even carnelian rings were not so valuable as good behavior.
Counting from the left-hand top corner, the stones are carnelian, peridot, emerald, ruby, lapis lazuli, onyx, sapphire, agate, amethyst, topaz, beryl, and jasper." I was amazed at the variety and beauty of the stones.
The settings of the uppermost row of four stones--the carnelian, peridot, emerald, and ruby--were rough and jagged as if someone had scraped all round them.
She was red-headed, but her hair become her somehow when she curled 'n' frizzed it over a karosene lamp, 'n' then wound it round 'n' round her head like ropes o' carnelian.
Quotes with CARNELIAN (2)
I stepped to the tank's edge, leaned in, and concentrated on keeping my eyes open. Which fish would be the shooter? The fish were all facing me, but one in particular seemed to be staring directly at my left eye, like a hunter targeting his prey. Wham! The water hit my pupil with such force that I jerked back …. Laughing, I wiped my left eye but stayed by the tank, my left hand resting on its edge. Another fish quickly seized the opportunity to blast the diamond in my engagem…
Just why it should have happened, or why it should have happened just when it did, he could not, of course, possibly have said; nor perhaps could it even have occurred to him to ask. The thing was above all a secret, something to be preciously concealed from Mother and Father; and to that very fact it owed an enormous part of its deliciousness. It was like a peculiarly beautiful trinket to be carried unmentioned in one's trouser-pocket - a rare stamp, an old coin, a few tiny …
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, S&S.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1978–2007).