Crossword-Solution: CLIO
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Clio | n. | The Muse who presided over history. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CLIO | anagram | COIL, COLI, LOCI, OLIC |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CLIO (5)
Clio, too, And Beroe, sisters, ocean-children both, Both zoned with gold and girt with dappled fell, Ephyre and Opis, and from Asian meads Deiopea, and, bow at length laid by, Fleet-footed Arethusa.
When, at last, I am cold-- years hence, if the gods so will it-- Say, "He was true as gold," and wear a rose in your fillet! Others, tender as I, will come and sue for caresses, Woo you, win you, and die-- mind you, a rose in your tresses! Some Melpomene woo, some hold Clio the nearest; You, sweet Comedy--you were ever sweetest and dearest! Nay, it is time to go-- when writing your tragic sister Say to that child of woe how sorry I was I missed her.
But Clio could at least refrain from reading the works which, by a legal fiction, she was supposed to inspire.
Had I had the instinct that was given to those Emperors in stone, and even to the dog Corker, I should have begged Clio to send in my stead some man of stronger nerve.
This goes to prove me a cad? Oh, set against it the fact that I did at one point betray Clio’s trust.
Quotes with CLIO (3)
Women, he would say, are not Muses. Muses are Muses. To confuse one with the other is to mistake the Devouring Void for the Seminal Light. Earthly Women and the Muses are ancient, sworn enemies. The battlefield is the Creative Male. On the one side is the encampment of Discordia, of Diana, of Venus located in his Heart and in his Groin. On the other is the Bastion of Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia and Urania, in his Brain and in his…
Clio, the muse of history, is as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis.
The statue of Justice, symbol of the law, as she holds aloft her balance scale, is blindfolded. Justice is blind to race, creed, color — and to personal eccentricity. If there were a comparable state of Clio, the Muse of history, she would have to be presented with the blindfold lying at her feet, because the balance of her scales must be weighed with a conscious awareness of the facts and interpretations she must weigh.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 309 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).