Crossword-Solution: CELLO 5 letters, 249 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Cello n. A contraction for Violoncello.

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"Eleanor Rigby" instrument 1 answer
"Hilary and Jackie" instrument 1 answer
"The Swan" in Saint-Saëns's "Carnival of the Animals" 1 answer
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Arturo Toscanini's instrument 1 answer
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Bass viol's relative. 1 answer
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Big string 1 answer
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Clear material, for short 1 answer
Clear wrap, for short 1 answer
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Food wrapping, informally 1 answer
Huge instrument 1 answer
Instrument Bach wrote six suites for 1 answer
Instrument Casals played 1 answer
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Instrument held between the knees in an orchestra 1 answer
Member of the string family between viola and bass 1 answer
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Instrument for Pablo Casals 1 answer
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Instrument for Yo-Yo Ma 1 answer
Instrument heard in "Eleanor Rigby" 1 answer
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Instrument of Pablo Casals. 1 answer
Instrument played between the knees 1 answer
Instrument played between the legs 1 answer
Instrument played sitting down 1 answer
Instrument played while seated 1 answer
Instrument that goes between the knees 1 answer
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Sentences with CELLO (5)

What kept him awake, after that, was a dim, rhythmic sound coming from the house next door, where a holiday dance was in progress--music far away and slender: fiddle, 'cello, horn, bassoon, drums, all rollicking away almost the night-long, seeping through the walls to his restless pillow.
The Flirt Booth Tarkington 2004
Then came from the yard a sound of tuning instruments, squeak of fiddle, croon of 'cello, a falling triangle ringing and tinkling to the floor; and he turned pale.
Penrod Booth Tarkington 2006
And what an orchestra was Costa’s—with Sainton leader, and Lindley and old Dragonetti, who together but alone, accompanied the _recitative_ with their harmonious chords on ’cello and double-bass.
Tracks of a Rolling Stone Henry J. Coke 2012
There were the timid couples, who danced with trembling knees and eyes cast over their shoulders; the feeble couples, who meandered aimlessly and got tangled in corners; the rash couples, who tore breathlessly through the rooms and brought up at last against the large white waistcoat of the violon-cello.
Malbone Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1997
The mild breeze trembled to the silver patterings of a harp, to the sweet, barbaric chirping of plucked strings of violin and 'cello--and swooned among the maple leaves to the rhythmic crooning of a flute.
Seventeen Booth Tarkington 2006

Quotes with CELLO (3)

Many women are singing together of this: one is in a shoe factory cursing the machine, one is at the aquarium tending a seal, one is dull at the wheel of her Ford, one is at the toll gate collecting, one is tying the cord of a calf in Arizona, one is straddling a cello in Russia, one is shifting pots on the stove in Egypt, one is painting her bedroom walls moon color, one is dying but remembering a breakfast, one is stretching on her mat in Thailand, one is wiping the ass of …
Anne Sexton The Complete Poems
It [Bach's cello suites] is like a great diamond," said [Mischa] Maisky in a thick Russian accent, "with so many different cuts that reflect light in so many different ways.
Eric Siblin The Cello Suites
Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late.
David Mitchell Cloud Atlas
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Custom, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 381 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).