Crossword-Solution: DETOURS 7 letters, 31 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Her assumptions and elisions, her short-cuts and long DETOURS, the skill with which she contrived to meet him at a point from which no inconvenient glimpses of the past were visible, suggested what opportunities she had had for practising such arts since their last meeting.

Fallen trees lay across our paths, rivers caused long detours, while again and again we lost our way or were turned aside by impenetrable forest tangles.

For the most part I skirted the wood, making occasional detours rather than enter those forbidding depths of gloom, though many times I was forced to pass through arms of the forest which extended to the very shore of the inland sea.

One could save time by taking a narrow path through the long grass, which cut off the detours of the winding drive.

Coke’s land in that county—he rode on horseback, making frequent detours from the road to note the geological features of the country which he traversed.