Crossword-Solution: CHEQUERS
We have 11 clues for the answer “CHEQUERS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BRITISH Prime Minister, county of | 1 answer |
| COUNTRY seat of PM (Gt Brit.) | 1 answer |
| From British treasures to pastime? | 1 answer |
| GREEN mottled fruit of the service tree | 1 answer |
| MOTTLED fruit of the service tree | 1 answer |
| Official country residence of the British prime minister | 1 answer |
| SERVICE tree fruit of the | 1 answer |
| SORB, green mottled fruit of the | 1 answer |
| SORBUS torminalis, green mottled fruit of the | 1 answer |
| FRUIT of the service tree | 2 answers |
| Game ___ | 137 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CHEQUERS (5)
CHAPTER XVIII Away! our journey lies through dell and dingle, Where the blithe fawn trips by its timid mother, Where the broad oak, with intercepting boughs, Chequers the sunbeam in the green-sward alley— Up and away!—for lovely paths are these To tread, when the glad Sun is on his throne Less pleasant, and less safe, when Cynthia’s lamp With doubtful glimmer lights the dreary forest.
Almost at the same time, those who had crossed the barricade and charged farther up the street, being met before the door of the Chequers by the formidable hunchback and the whole reserve of the Yorkists, began to come scattering backward, in the excess of disarray and terror.
There are also various games played with chequers, some of great antiquity; and there is chess, that is to say, a game so little differing from our chess as to leave no doubt as to the common origin of both.
For a moment it seemed to him as if the arched gloom of the woods he had left behind was repeated in the dim aisle and vaulted roof; there was an earthy odor, as if the church itself, springing from the fertilizing dust below, had taken root in the soil; the chequers of light from the faded stained-glass windows fell like the flicker of leaves on the pavement.
The concave vault above deepened; the sunset light from the level horizon beyond streamed through the leaves as through the chequers of stained glass windows; through the two shafts before him stretched the pillared aisles of Ashley Church! He was riding as in a dream, and when a figure suddenly slipped across his pathway from a column-like tree trunk, he woke with the disturbance and sense of unreality of a dream.
Quotes with CHEQUERS (2)
No one will shake my conviction that those leaders of men, who are in the nature of carbuncles, of semi-conscious abscesses, who draw feverish crowds to them like noxious humours, have an innate knowledge of arrested time. They play with those vacant moments as though at a game of chequers. A fraction of suspended, frozen time, of inert time, jammed like a wedge into the most wonderfully oiled cogs of the most lucid of minds: and the whole mechanism is brought crashing to the…
Nothing beats a private visit to Number Ten or Chequers to take the wind out of rebellious sails.
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Appears in: WP.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1999).