Crossword-Solution: CROQUET
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Croquet | n. | An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern. |
| Croquet | n. | The act of croqueting. |
| Croquet | v. t. | In the game of croquet, to drive away an opponent's ball, after putting one's own in contact with it, by striking one's own ball with the mallet. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CROQUET | anagram | ROCQUET |
We have 20 clues for the answer “CROQUET”
| Clue | Answers |
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| It can have you going through hoops | 1 answer |
| Wonderland pastime | 1 answer |
| Wimbledon Cup sport | 1 answer |
| Players may place stakes on this | 1 answer |
| Picnic pastime #2 | 1 answer |
| PELL Mell, game descended from | 1 answer |
| PALL Mall, game descended from | 1 answer |
| play a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops | 1 answer |
| It's played with mallets and wickets ... | 1 answer |
| Game with wooden balls, mallet, and hoops | 1 answer |
| Game with hoops | 1 answer |
| Game that involves driving balls through hoops | 1 answer |
| Game played on a lawn | 1 answer |
| Alice had to play it with flamingos as mallets | 1 answer |
| roque | 1 answer |
| social pastime promotedby the earl of essex | 1 answer |
| Low-stakes game? | 2 answers |
| LAWN game | 9 answers |
| OUTDOOR game | 18 answers |
| ball game | 30 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with CROQUET (5)
The announcement had had an abnormal and incongruous sound, as if one should hear of croquet-playing in a cathedral aisle, or that some much-respected judge was going upon the stage.
They chatted incessantly: about the things around them; their amusing adventure out in the water—it had again assumed its entertaining aspect; about the wind, the trees, the people who had gone to the _Chênière;_ about the children playing croquet under the oaks, and the Farival twins, who were now performing the overture to “The Poet and the Peasant.” Robert talked a good deal about himself.
With an air of inquiry, but with no real hesitation, it crossed the tiny strip of turf that the charitable called the croquet lawn, and pushed its way through the open French window into the morning-room.
The room was a friendly heterogeneous place, the one repository, in the well-ordered and amply-servanted house, of all its unclassified odds and ends: Effie’s croquet-box and fishing rods, Owen’s guns and golf-sticks and racquets, his step-mother’s flower-baskets and gardening implements, even Madame de Chantelle’s embroidery frame, and the back numbers of the Catholic Weekly.
You took five iron arches, like gigantic croquet hoops, and fitted them up over the boat, and then stretched the canvas over them, and fastened it down: it would take quite ten minutes, we thought.
Quotes with CROQUET (3)
Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain.(Mind the latter, how it’s written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But b…
She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a came of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.
You're doing it again. Using reason to argue faith. Can't be done. Like playing croquet with a crochet hook. Sounds something like the right tool for the job, but isn't.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1997–2018).