Crossword-Solution: DESISTS
We have 23 clues for the answer “DESISTS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Stops doing what one's doing | 1 answer |
| Quits it | 1 answer |
| Partner of "ceases" | 1 answer |
| Goes into stoppage time? | 1 answer |
| Ceases to act | 1 answer |
| Calls it off | 1 answer |
| Calls a truce | 1 answer |
| Stops an action | 1 answer |
| Stops as a result of a court order, say | 1 answer |
| Lays off | 3 answers |
| Cools it | 3 answers |
| Cuts it out | 3 answers |
| Abstains | 5 answers |
| Leaves off | 7 answers |
| Refrains | 7 answers |
| Calls it quits | 7 answers |
| Halts | 8 answers |
| Discontinues | 10 answers |
| Ceases | 10 answers |
| Knocks off | 12 answers |
| Cuts out | 13 answers |
| Quits | 15 answers |
| Stops | 19 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DESISTS (5)
Yet when once the stamp of poetry has been put upon a cry that is as old as humanity, prose desists from rivalry, and is content to quote.
III For he is in the lists Contentious with the elements, whose dower First sprang him; for swift vultures to devour If he desists.
Villiers follows to Prag; desists not from his eloquent Letters, and earnest persuasions at Prag; but begins to perceive that the means of persuading Bruhl will be a much heavier kind of artillery.
Even Count Badeni attitudinises for a moment; strikes a reflective Napoleonic attitude of fine picturesqueness--but soon thinks better of it and desists.
Will you hear me?” _Miss Spaulding_, beginning to play: “No.” _Miss Reed_, with burlesque wildness: “You shall!” _Miss Spaulding_ involuntarily desists.
Quotes with DESISTS (1)
Islam desists violence practised by terrorists who kill their brethren and commit all despicable actions under the shelter of religion. Islam dissociates itself strictly from these people and their actions.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 54 times in crossword archives (1972–2025).