Crossword-Solution: CLOCKWORK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Clockwork | n. | The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “CLOCKWORK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A certain mechanism. | 1 answer |
| Delicate mechanism. | 1 answer |
| Mechanism that keeps things ticking regularly | 1 answer |
| Precisely, after "like" | 1 answer |
| Timepiece innards | 1 answer |
| machinery of wind up timepiece | 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
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CLOCKWORK (5)
Between the tower and the church was a close screen, the door of which was kept shut during services, hiding this grotesque clockwork from sight.
But so little it was, so silvery warm—a pin’s head of light! It was as if it quivered, but really this was the telescope vibrating with the activity of the clockwork that kept the planet in view.
Every month Alex had forwarded money, regular like clockwork, and Sir George had diligently followed instructions.
When the winding was completed the Russian set a pointer upon a small dial at the side of the clockwork, then he replaced the cover upon the black box, and returned the entire machine to its hiding-place in the table.
Towards morning she died with a rapid series of hiccoughs that sounded like a piece of clockwork running down.
Quotes with CLOCKWORK (3)
My wife with the hair of a wood fire With the thoughts of heat lightning With the waist of an hourglass With the waist of an otter in the teeth of a tiger My wife with the lips of a cockade and of a bunch of stars of the last magnitude With the teeth of tracks of white mice on the white earth With the tongue of rubbed amber and glass My wife with the tongue of a stabbed host With the tongue of a doll that opens and closes its eyes With the tongue of an unbelievable stone My w…
Festivals and fasts are unhinged, traveling backward at a rate of ten days per year, attached to no season. Even Laylat ul Qadr, the holiest night in Ramadan, drifts--its precise date is unknown. The iconclasm laid down by Muhammed was absolute: you must resist attachment not only to painted images, but to natural ones. Ramadan, Muharram, the Eids; you associate no religious event with the tang of snow in the air, or spring thaw, or the advent of summer. God permeates these t…
Tessa had lain down beside him and slid her arm beneath his head, and put her head on his chest, listening to the ever-weakening beat of his heart. And in the shadows they'd whispered, reminding each other of the stories only they knew. Of the girl who had hit over the head with a water jug the boy who had come to rescue her, and how he had fallen in love with her in that instant. Of a ballroom and a balcony and the moon sailing like a ship untethered through the sky. Of the …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1957–2024).