Crossword-Solution: CRANIAL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cranial | a. | Of or pertaining to the cranium. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CRANIAL | anagram | CARINAL, CARLINA, CLARAIN |
We have 22 clues for the answer “CRANIAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like an optic nerve | 1 answer |
| Skull-related | 1 answer |
| Relating to head cases? | 1 answer |
| Related to head cases | 1 answer |
| Optic nerve descriptor | 1 answer |
| One of 24 nerves | 1 answer |
| Of the skull | 1 answer |
| Like the olfactory nerve, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Like the auditory and optic nerves, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Enclosing the brain | 1 answer |
| Concerning the skull. | 1 answer |
| CEPHALAD | 1 answer |
| "Heady," so to speak? | 1 answer |
| BODY cavity inside the skull protecting the brain | 2 answers |
| NERVES relating to smell | 2 answers |
| Pertaining to the skull | 2 answers |
| POSTERIOR of the body | 4 answers |
| BEHIND the body | 5 answers |
| AN ENCLOSING FRAMEWORK ON CASTERS OR WHEELS | 10 answers |
| CAUSED BY DISEASE OF OPTIC NERVE OR RETINA OR BRAIN | 10 answers |
| Heady | 66 answers |
| Brainy | 72 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with CRANIAL (5)
But the intellectual exercises he performed at lightening speed, cranial neuro-syn- apses switching for all they were worth, did not permit Pierre the luxury of a respite of calm.
She furthermore maintains that the welsh-rarebits of which I partake invariably at the eleventh hour every night breed poisonous vapors and subtle megrims within my stomach, which humors, rising by their natural courses to my brain, do therein produce a fever that from within burneth up the fluids necessary to a healthy condition of the capillary growth upon the super-adjacent and exterior cranial integument.
CLASS III.--Those monsters joined by a fusion of some of the cranial bones are sometimes called craniopagi.
Bell himself, meanwhile, had turned his attention to the cranial nerves, and had proved that these also are divisible into two sets--sensory and motor.
Max was blinking like a week-old kitten, and one could have sworn that he was but hazily conscious of his surroundings; whereas in reality he was memorizing the cranial peculiarities of the new arrival, the shape of his nose, the disposition of his ears; the exact hue of his eyes; the presence of a discolored tooth in his lower jaw, which a fish-like, nervous trick of opening and closing the mouth periodically revealed.
Quotes with CRANIAL (3)
Don't creationists ever wonder about the fact that the paleontologists found ape-like skulls with the 'human leg and foot bones,' rather than the other way around, i.e., human skulls with 'ape leg and foot bones?' . . . Come on, creationists, think about it! Did God hide the human skulls, only leaving behind leg and foot bones belonging to human midgets with misshapen feet, and mix such bones only with the skulls of ape-like creatures with larger cranial capacities than livin…
During the crash and burn, I began to burn from cranial crown to flat sole, for meaning and understanding. Every concept, psychological perceptions with hardened pathways, everything that registered as inherited from the communal was starting to dissolve into meaninglessness. The foundational tenets, the pre-established belief systems, instilled sustenance systems tended by both family and extended communal began to dissolve, first as trivial, and then as untenable to my bein…
The sad thing is that so many people, in the belief that the universe is organized to suit and influence them, are willing to sacrifice even the slight cranial capacity with which evolution has equipped us.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 25 times in crossword archives (1955–2025).