Crossword-Solution: CRACKPOT
We have 45 clues for the answer “CRACKPOT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Unrealistic one | 1 answer |
| Completely impractical | 1 answer |
| Member of the lunatic fringe. | 1 answer |
| Kooky, as a scheme | 1 answer |
| Far-fetched, as an idea | 1 answer |
| Erratic one: Slang. | 1 answer |
| An eccentric person | 2 answers |
| Crazy guy | 2 answers |
| Whack job | 3 answers |
| Odd fellow | 5 answers |
| Eccentric one | 9 answers |
| Nut-case | 10 answers |
| AN ECCENTRIC IDEA | 11 answers |
| A WHIMSICALLY ECCENTRIC PERSON | 11 answers |
| Nut case | 12 answers |
| Loon | 12 answers |
| fogey | 15 answers |
| harebrain | 15 answers |
| crazy person | 16 answers |
| CRACKBRAIN | 16 answers |
| eccentric person | 17 answers |
| FISH out of water, like a | 17 answers |
| DERANGED person | 32 answers |
| Screwball | 34 answers |
| Kook | 37 answers |
| Weirdo | 37 answers |
| Fogy | 42 answers |
| CRANK ___ | 43 answers |
| Maniac | 47 answers |
| Imbecile | 53 answers |
| Madman | 53 answers |
| Fanatic | 54 answers |
| Nut | 58 answers |
| Impulsive | 60 answers |
| Nutty | 60 answers |
| Lunatic | 62 answers |
| "Ridiculous!" | 64 answers |
| CUCKOO ___ | 65 answers |
| Idiotic | 66 answers |
| Hare-brained | 68 answers |
| Oddity | 74 answers |
| Oddball | 83 answers |
| Character | 84 answers |
| Crazy | 95 answers |
| Eccentric | 113 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CRACKPOT (5)
His mind revolted at the idea of non-human creatures who could build ships and travel through space, but radars had reported the arrival of a ship, and there were official inquiries that nearly matched Vale's account, which was therefore not a mere crackpot claim to have seen the incredible.
But where to?" "To any place away from Boulder Lake Park, and where I'm a human being instead of a crackpot civilian.
Therefore it was a noble enterprise, and to the glory of the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon, to put up the financial backing for even a crackpot who might get spices cheaper and thereby make the consumption of slightly spoiled meat less unpleasant.
Back on Earth a crackpot inventor had a lawyer busily garnering free advertisement by press conferences about the injury done his client by Spaceways, Inc., who had stolen his invention to travel through space faster than light.
Ultimately the crackpot inventor would get on the air and announce triumphantly that only part of his invention had been stolen, because he'd been too smart to write it down or tell anybody, and he wouldn't tell anybody--not even a court--the full details of his invention unless paid twenty-five million in cash down, and royalties afterward.
Quotes with CRACKPOT (3)
We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass on an undivided Republic purged of racism and slavery, to our descendants. The popgun discharges of a few pathetic sectarians and crackpot revisionists are negligible, and will be drowned by the mounting chorus that demands: 'Mr Jefferson! BUILD UP THAT WALL'.
A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of considerable self-assurance. Since he occurs only rarely, he must seem eccentric (in at least that respect) to the rest of us. A person eccentric in one respect is often eccentric in others. Consequently, the person who is most likely to get new ideas is a person of good background in the field of interest and one who is unconventional in his habits. (To be a crackpot is not, however, enough in itself.)
Lo, each subculture has its own language, and verily I am not a parody. You don’t believe me? Get with the program, crackpot!
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 20 times in crossword archives (1952–2023).