Crossword-Solution: CHIRON
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CHIRON | anagram | ORCHIN |
We have 10 clues for the answer “CHIRON”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Wise centaur who tutored Achilles in Greek myth | 1 answer |
| "Wisest and justest of all the centaurs," in Greek myth | 1 answer |
| Centaur on staff at Camp Half-Blood, in the Percy Jackson series | 1 answer |
| Centaur who mentored Achilles | 1 answer |
| Learned centaur of Greek mythology | 1 answer |
| Mentor of myth | 1 answer |
| The oldest of the Greek centaurs | 1 answer |
| Wisest of the centaurs, in Greek myth | 1 answer |
| Hermes | 2 answers |
| centaur | 8 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CHIRON (5)
Moreover now nor change of fodder serves, And subtlest cures but injure; then were foiled The masters, Chiron sprung from Phillyron, And Amythaon's son Melampus.
The _Precepts of Chiron_ was a didactic poem made up of moral and practical precepts, resembling the gnomic sections of the _Works and Days_, addressed by the Centaur Chiron to his pupil Achilles.
Let Chiron also come and bring many Centaurs—all that escaped the hands of Heracles and all that were destroyed: let them make sad havoc of the pots and overthrow the kiln, and let the potters see the mischief and be grieved; but I will gloat as I behold their luckless craft.
There Chiron old, In the Pelethronian antre, taught thee lore: The plants, he taught, and by the shining stars In forests dim to steer.
There in the cavern from the pregnant cloud Ixion's sons found birth, the Centaur brood Half beast, half human: Monychus who broke The stubborn rocks of Pholoe, Rhoetus fierce Hurling from Oeta's top gigantic elms Which northern storms could hardly overturn; Pholus, Alcides' host: Nessus who bore The Queen across Evenus' (24) waves, to feel The deadly arrow for his shameful deed; And aged Chiron (25) who with wintry star Against the huger Scorpion draws his bow.
Quotes with CHIRON (3)
Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.""But what if he is your friend?" Achilles had asked him, feet kicked up on the wall of the rose-quartz cave. "Or your brother? Should you treat him the same as a stranger?""You ask a question that philosophers argue over," Chiron had said. He is worth more to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is…
He turned to Frank who was trying to pull his fingers out of the Chinese handcuffs…“Okay,” Frank relented. “Sure.” He frowned at his fingers, trying to pull them out of the trap. “Uh, how do you — ”Leo chuckled. “Man, you’ve never seen those before? There’s a simple trick to getting out.” Frank tugged again with no luck. Even Hazel was trying not to laugh. Frank grimaced with concentration. Suddenly, he disappeared. On the deck where he’d been standing, a green iguana crouche…
Chiron looked surprised. “I thought that would be obvious enough. The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: New Yorker, NYT, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1999–2025).