Crossword-Solution: CLOWN 5 letters, 194 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Clown	n.	A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an ill-bred person; a boor.
Clown	n.	One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl.
Clown	n.	The fool or buffoon in a play, circus, etc.
Clown	v. i.	To act as a clown; -- with it.

We have 194 clues for the answer “CLOWN”

Clue	Answers
Animated Krusty	1 answer
Animated Krusty, for one	1 answer
Birthday party entertainer	1 answer
Bozo or Krusty	1 answer
Bozo, e.g.	1 answer
Bozo, famously	1 answer
Children's party performer	1 answer
Circus comedian	1 answer
Circus funny person	1 answer
Circus funnyman	1 answer
Clarabell on "Howdy Doody"	1 answer
Class comedian	1 answer
Class cutup	1 answer
Colorful performer	1 answer
Comedy character.	1 answer
Comedy performer.	1 answer
Comical circus performer	1 answer
Costume with a big red nose	1 answer
Coulrophobe's bugaboo	1 answer
Emmett Kelly for instance.	1 answer
Emmett Kelly was one	1 answer
Emmett Kelly, e.g.	1 answer
Emmett Kelly, for one	1 answer
Entertainer at a kid's birthday party	1 answer
Entertainer that scares some kids	1 answer
Circus performer known for a red nose	1 answer
Everly Brothers "Cathy's ___"	1 answer
Felix Adler, e.g.	1 answer
Fright wig wearer	1 answer
Funny circus performer	1 answer
Funnyman on stilts	1 answer
Gaudy makeup wearer	1 answer
Gobbo, for one.	1 answer
Grimaldi or Krusty	1 answer
Kiddy-party entertainer	1 answer
Kids' party performer	1 answer
Kind of costume	1 answer
Krusty or Bozo	1 answer
Krusty, for one	1 answer
Krusty, on "The Simpsons"	1 answer
Launcelot Gobbo.	1 answer
Made-up horn honker	1 answer
Madison Square performer.	1 answer
One in a fright wig	1 answer
One who's not serious	1 answer
One with a smiley face?	1 answer
One with big shoes to fill	1 answer
Pantaloonery expert	1 answer
Pantomime performer at the circus	1 answer
Performer who might be found funny or scary	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

RAETE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with CLOWN (5)

Hence as many eyes were turned upon her, enthroned alone in this place of honour, against a scarlet background, as upon the ponies and clown who were engaged in preliminary exploits in the centre, Turpin not having yet appeared.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

There she found the tramp, his bony body grotesquely attired in the clown’s suit, his face shaved and painted white,—the sweat trickling through the paint and washing it away,—and his eyes wild and feverish.

The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

What if he turned his back, now, and disappeared mysteriously? What if he went away—ever so far away, into unknown countries beyond the seas—and never came back any more! How would she feel then! The idea of being a clown recurred to him now, only to fill him with disgust.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Well, all through the circus they done the most astonishing things; and all the time that clown carried on so it most killed the people.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Doubt not that we shall be strong enough to make good our quarters.” “We must not let it come so far,” answered the Prior; “but here is the clown’s sunken cross, and the night is so dark that we can hardly see which of the roads we are to follow.

Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993

Quotes with CLOWN (3)

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Carl Sagan Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science

You cannot put me down You shall not clothe me with a frown You certainly won't transform me into a clown Nor turn my clear black and white into indecisive brown My aspirations, my dreams, my future, you shall not drown Neither can you drive me into mad town I'm unshakable

Evy Michaels

The kind of happy I was that day at the Vet when "Hawk" Dawson actually doffed his red "C" cap to me, and everyone cheered and practically convulsed into tears - you can't patent that. It was one shining moment of glory that was instantly gone. Whereas life, real life, is different and can't even be appraised as simply "happy", but only in terms of "Yes, I'll take it all, thanks" or "No, I believe I won't." Happy, as my poor father used to say, is a lot of hooey. Happy is a c…

Richard Ford The Lay of the Land

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 96 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).