Crossword-Solution: CATCHALL
We have 15 clues for the answer “CATCHALL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A place for odds and ends. | 1 answer |
| Attic or closet, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Attic, for example. | 1 answer |
| Holder of odds and ends | 1 answer |
| Miscellany category | 1 answer |
| Odds-and-ends category | 1 answer |
| Omnipurpose | 1 answer |
| Receptacle for odds and ends. | 1 answer |
| Something to hold most anything. | 1 answer |
| Place for odds and ends | 2 answers |
| Miscellaneous category | 4 answers |
| multipurpose | 10 answers |
| A SALE OF MISCELLANY | 11 answers |
| Miscellaneous | 24 answers |
| Miscellany | 76 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CATCHALL (4)
The IMF's propensity to provide a "catchall" one-measure-fits-all panacea is nothing short of shortsighted and disastrous.
One of the pit-falls in nearly every business is "general expense" or "sundry expense." This department is a catchall for a lot of items, and it hides a lot of leaks and wastes in business.
This closet was a sort of catchall, as the closets of spare rooms are apt to be; and as Coyne stooped to pick up the slippers he knocked down something which had been standing in a dark corner.
Five Rollins Place was a catchall: a home for Moore and his assorted associates, an informal office, a dormitory for out-of-town enthusiasts, Italian and otherwise, a lodging house for prospective witnesses and intellectuals and freshly minted college girls heavy with purpose.
Quotes with CATCHALL (3)
There is that, and there is also the Irreconcilable Differences line. It seems so catchall, so vague. You could say that about anyone, any man and woman at all. Jesus and Mary Magdalene: "Irreconcilable Differences." JFK and Jackie, anyone at all. It´s built into the man-woman thing. What kind of paltry reason is that? "Insanity" is another box to be checked on the divorce petition, the only alternative to "Irreconcilable Differences." I would like to check it.
Where do you find a stomach on a Thursday afternoon in Reno? "Chinatown?" suggests someone. "Costco?" "Butcher Boys." Tracy pulls his phone from a pocket. "Hello, I'm from the university" - the catchall preamble for unorthodox inquiries.
Sorrow comes with so many defense mechanisms. You have your shock, your denial, your getting wasted, your cracking jokes, and your religion. You also have the old standby catchall--the blind belief in fate, the whole "things happening for a reason" drill. But my personal favorite defense has always been anger, with its trusty offshoots of self-righteous indignation, bitterness, and resentment.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).