Crossword-Solution: CRESSETS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CRESSETS | anagram | SECTRESS |
We have 4 clues for the answer “CRESSETS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Fire baskets. | 1 answer |
| Metal baskets for burning oil | 1 answer |
| Old-time torches. | 1 answer |
| Torch cups | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AERA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with CRESSETS (5)
Light this halt of the pilgrims by the wild red flames of cressets and torches, streaming up at intervals from every part of the innumerable throng.
Many and many were the torches and cressets burning steadily in the calm air, so that, as aforesaid, night was turned into day.
Last night the quays were lighted; Cressets of smoking pine Glared o'er the roaring mariners That drink the yellow wine.
All night the barons came and went, The lords of the outer guard: All night the cressets glimmered pale On Ulwar sabre and Tonk jezail, Mewar headstall and Marwar mail, That clinked in the palace yard.
The boy clapped his hands in delight at the beauties of the carved and panelled walls and the oak beamed ceiling, stained almost black from the smoke of torches and oil cressets that had lighted it in bygone days, aided, no doubt, by the wood fires which had burned in its two immense fireplaces to cheer the merry throng of noble revellers that had so often sat about the great table into the morning hours.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1962–2009).