Crossword-Solution: CRETANS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CRETANS | anagram | CANTERS, NECTARS, RECANTS, SCANTER, TRANCES |
We have 20 clues for the answer “CRETANS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| King Minos and El Greco, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Subjects of King Minos | 1 answer |
| Some Greek islanders | 1 answer |
| Residents of ancient Minos | 1 answer |
| Natives of Canea | 1 answer |
| Minos' subjects | 1 answer |
| Minos et al. | 1 answer |
| Minos and Ariadne, e.g. | 1 answer |
| King Minos's subjects | 1 answer |
| King Minos' people | 1 answer |
| Inscribers of the Linear B tablets at Knossos, e.g. | 1 answer |
| El Greco by birth, and Epimenides | 1 answer |
| El Greco and others | 1 answer |
| Citizens of Canea | 1 answer |
| Certain Greek islanders | 1 answer |
| Canea residents | 1 answer |
| Candia people. | 1 answer |
| Greek islanders | 2 answers |
| CANEA | 4 answers |
| CANEA NATIVE | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CRETANS (5)
Not long ago, as we shall remind them, the Hellenes were of the opinion, which is still generally received among the barbarians, that the sight of a naked man was ridiculous and improper; and when first the Cretans and then the Lacedaemonians introduced the custom, the wits of that day might equally have ridiculed the innovation.
And while he considered this, he became aware of a swift ship upon the wine-like sea in which were many men and goodly, Cretans from Cnossos 2510, the city of Minos, they who do sacrifice to the prince and announce his decrees, whatsoever Phoebus Apollo, bearer of the golden blade, speaks in answer from his laurel tree below the dells of Parnassus.
XIV "The Cretans, who had banished in that day Idomeneus the tyrant of their land, And their new state to strengthen and upstay, Were gathering arms and levying martial band, Phalantus' service by their goodly pay Purchased (so hight the youth who sought that strand), And all those others that his fortune run, Who the Dictaean city garrison.
Seven months were consumed in the siege of Candia; the despair of the native Cretans was stimulated by the frequent aid of their brethren of Africa and Spain; and after the massy wall and double ditch had been stormed by the Greeks a hopeless conflict was still maintained in the streets and houses of the city.
The Cretans were familiar with the art of writing, but no one has yet been able to decipher their inscriptions.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Onion, WSJ.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1969–2023).