Crossword-Solution: CARNY
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CARNY | anagram | CARYN, CYNAR |
We have 29 clues for the answer “CARNY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Fairground employee | 1 answer |
| Worker in a sideshow: Slang | 1 answer |
| Traveling show worker | 1 answer |
| State fair worker | 1 answer |
| Sideshow worker, slangily | 1 answer |
| Sideshow guy | 1 answer |
| Sideshow barker | 1 answer |
| Pitchman at the fair | 1 answer |
| Midway worker | 1 answer |
| Midway figure | 1 answer |
| Midway employee | 1 answer |
| Midway attention-getter | 1 answer |
| Human barker | 1 answer |
| Ferris wheel operator, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Ferris wheel operator | 1 answer |
| Fair figure | 1 answer |
| Fair employee | 1 answer |
| Fair barker | 1 answer |
| Barker, for example | 1 answer |
| Amusement park worker | 1 answer |
| 'Step right up!' shouter | 1 answer |
| "Step right up!" sayer, say | 1 answer |
| Big-top employee | 2 answers |
| Barker, e.g. | 2 answers |
| Sideshow worker | 2 answers |
| Sideshow employee | 2 answers |
| CERTAIN HUCKSTER | 11 answers |
| BARKER | 18 answers |
| Geek | 26 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CARNY (5)
Fyodor dealt in scrap, too, and once, he had half of a carny carousel, a few horses and part of the canopy, paint flaking and sharp torn edges protruding; next to it, a Korean-war tank minus its turret and treads, and inside the tank were peeling old pinup girls and a rotation schedule and a crude Kilroy.
Anthony on his gridiron, and rolled his eye-balls up toward the dark bed; and uttered a dismal groan, and thought of the three inexorable fates, Carny, Nutter, and Dyle, who at that moment held among them the measure, and the thread, and the shears of his destiny: and standing desperately in the dark at the verge of the abyss, he mentally hurled the three ugly spirits together into his bag, and flung them whirling through the mirk into the lake that burns with fire and brimstone.
Professor Lightning told Charley that he was leaving for New York, and Charley said: "What? In the middle of the season?" Then he told Wrout, and Wrout screamed and ranted and swore that Professor Lightning would never work in carny again.
And, Carny, if that girl at The Lucky Digger tries to pump you as to what your lay is, tell 'er you've come to buy a little property and settle down.
One, the leader, was Dolly; another Sweet William, or simply William; the third was Carny, or Carnac; the fourth Garstang.
Quotes with CARNY (3)
The speech fascinated him. His ear caught the rhythm of it and he noted their idioms and worked some of them into his patter. He had found the reason behind the peculiar, drawling language of the old carny hands — it was a composite of all the sprawling regions of the country. A language which sounded Southern to Southerners, Western to Westerners. It was the talk of the soil and its drawl covered the agility of the brains that poured it out. It was a soothing, illiterate, earthy language.
Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, 'Joyland.' He addresses the novel of carny life and sideshows, where the midway serves as microcosm, such as in those famous books by Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney and William Lindsay Gresham.
I can juggle, not well... I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a little sleight of hand with cards and coins.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 34 times in crossword archives (1981–2025).