Crossword-Solution: CRUMPET
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Crumpet | n. | A kind of large, thin muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “CRUMPET”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Toasted snack | 1 answer |
| English muffin look-alike | 1 answer |
| Tea-time treat often served with butter or jam | 1 answer |
| Muffin's cousin | 1 answer |
| Split and toasted treat | 1 answer |
| Yeast cake | 2 answers |
| Tea biscuit | 2 answers |
| English tidbit | 2 answers |
| pikelet | 3 answers |
| Tea partner | 3 answers |
| Tea accompaniment | 3 answers |
| Scone | 4 answers |
| drop scone | 4 answers |
| Teacake | 5 answers |
| Pastry | 40 answers |
| Cake __ | 58 answers |
| Girl | 82 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CRUMPET (5)
Ralph Nickleby seconded the resolution, and another gentleman having moved that it be amended by the insertion of the words ‘and crumpet’ after the word ‘muffin,’ whenever it occurred, it was carried triumphantly.
The second resolution, which recognised the expediency of immediately abolishing ‘all muffin (or crumpet) sellers, all traders in muffins (or crumpets) of whatsoever description, whether male or female, boys or men, ringing hand-bells or otherwise,’ was moved by a grievous gentleman of semi-clerical appearance, who went at once into such deep pathetics, that he knocked the first speaker clean out of the course in no time.
And, after him, came the Scotch member, with various pleasant allusions to the probable amount of profits, which increased the good humour that the poetry had awakened; and all the speeches put together did exactly what they were intended to do, and established in the hearers’ minds that there was no speculation so promising, or at the same time so praiseworthy, as the United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company.
Then came tea, the luscious crumpet, the quiet game at cribbage, and the song--the song which poor Eglantine heard, and which caused Woolsey's rage and his despair.
The fermentation which has already taken place in the nut has impregnated the flower with a leaven; this, without any further addition, expands the dough when in the oven, and the cake produced is very similar to a crumpet, both in appearance and flavor.
Quotes with CRUMPET (1)
I was playing Rasputin and what was motivating him was crumpet really, and I was extremely keen on crumpet so I was really rather good as Rasputin. And my next catastrophic failure was Macbeth, who I played in the style of a crumpet-lover, and then when Doctor Who came along, I embraced this lunacy, this cloud-cuckoo-land where people had to be convinced by absolute nonsense. I came from a very religious background, so it was easy for me to believe in something I knew nothing about.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1971–2013).