Crossword-Solution: DETONATOR 9 letters, 23 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Detonator n. One who, or that which, detonates.

We have 23 clues for the answer “DETONATOR”

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Device used for demolition 1 answer
Use it to have a blast? 1 answer
tetrazene 1 answer
Unsolved problem of H-bomb. 1 answer
SHELL part (mil.) 1 answer
RAILWAY fog-signal 1 answer
Percussion cap, e.g. 1 answer
Ka-boom! maker 1 answer
It might come with a plunger 1 answer
Fuse, e.g. 1 answer
Explosion starter 1 answer
Device for exploding. 1 answer
Destructive device 1 answer
DEVICE to fire an explosion 1 answer
Bomb device 1 answer
Big bang beginner 1 answer
Percussion cap 2 answers
Exploding device 2 answers
Demolition device 2 answers
BOMB part 3 answers
BLASTING cap 10 answers
Fuse 46 answers
Explosive 74 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TRAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DETONATOR (5)

They are things faint and slight in themselves, as physical facts, but they are like the detonator of a bomb: they let loose the explosive.
Ann Veronica H. G. Wells 2006
When it strikes the ground the detonator fires a charge which emits a report without damaging the message container, and at the same time fires a combustible charge emitting considerable smoke.
Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War Frederick A. Talbot 1997
The automatic detonator is set in motion and the bomb released to explode approximately at the height to which it is set.
Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War Frederick A. Talbot 1997
The airship was steadied momentarily to enable the range to be taken, the automatic detonator was set going and the bomb slipped into the launching tube.
Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War Frederick A. Talbot 1997
The detonator is held away from the main charge by a collar and ball-bearing which are held in place by the projecting end of a screw-releasing spindle.
Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War Frederick A. Talbot 1997

Quotes with DETONATOR (3)

You revolutionists' the other continued, with leisurely self-confidence, 'are the slaves of the social convention, which is afraid of you; slaves of it as much as the very police that stands up in the defence of that convention. Clearly you are, since you want to revolutionize it. It governs your action, too, and thus neither your thought nor your action can ever be conclusive. (...) 'You are not a bit better than the forces arrayed against you -- than the police, for instanc…
Joseph Conrad The Secret Agent
I always think the relationship between a teacher and a student should be short and maybe violent. You don't need to spend years together. All you need is an explosion: you are the material to explode the teacher is the detonator.
Pierre Boulez
In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked.
Richard Flanagan
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, WP, WSJ.

Used 16 times in crossword archives (1950–2024).