Crossword-Solution: CIRCUSES
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Circuses | pl. | of Circus |
We have 2 clues for the answer “CIRCUSES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Barnum and Bailey's business | 1 answer |
| Travelling shows | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CAMEEZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CIRCUSES (5)
Having deftly patted and squeezed the orange-skin till it resumed its original shape, he filled it up with water, inserted a fresh lump of sugar in the orifice, and, issuing forth, blandly proffered it to me as I sat moodily in the doorway dreaming of strange wild circuses under tropic skies.
One of them travellin' circuses, goin' down the coast; and one of the elephants had sore feet, so they put him in a big waggon, and another elephant pulled in front and one pushed behind.
Bread we suppose to be given amply; the cry for circuses will be the louder, and if the life of our descendants be such as we have conceived, there are two beloved pleasures on which they will be likely to fall back: the pleasures of intrigue and of sedition.
The Continental Circuses are not, like those of this country, under canvas, but show in wooden buildings.
There's where you meet hunters, and trappers for the Circuses, prodding along chained bears and muzzled wolves.
Quotes with CIRCUSES (3)
I think at the heart of so much restlessness of the day is a spiritual vacuum. There is a yearning for meaningful lives, a yearning for values we can commonly embrace. I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.
A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause - and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry (infliction of pain upon creatures that can never be for or against any cause), does not deserve to live.
So many FREAKS and not enough CIRCUSES!
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1999).