Crossword-Solution: DUPIN
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| Clue | Answers |
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| "The Purloined Letter" detective | 1 answer |
| Poe's detective | 1 answer |
| Poe's sleuth | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DUPIN (5)
The author of the "Memoirs of the Affairs of Europe since the Peace of Utrecht," says, "The miserable gang who dealt in poison and prophecy alleged that he had sold himself to the devil, and that a young girl of the name of Dupin had been poisoned by his means.
They seem ignorant that the Romans had any good writers.] 42 (return) [ The curious reader may see in Dupin, (Bibliotheque Ecclesiastique, tom.
Bayle has amused himself and his readers on that very delicate subject.] 98 (return) [ Dupin (Bibliotheque Ecclesiastique, tom.
The admirers of antiquity regret the loss of this public penance.] 148 (return) [ See in Dupin, Bibliotheque Ecclesiastique, tom.
Dupin, who has enriched it with critical notes, geographical discussions, original records, and an accurate abridgment of the whole controversy.
Quotes with DUPIN (3)
What is needed is the imagination of the poet and the reasoning power of the mathematician. The thief of "The Purloined Letter" successfully hides the letter from the police because he is both a poet and a mathematician. Dupin is able to find it because he too meets both conditions.
Let him talk," said Dupin, who had not thought it necessary to reply. "Let him discourse; it will ease his conscience, I a satisfied with having defeated him in his own castle.
My high school English teacher in junior year, Dr. Robert Parsons, assigned us some Poe stories, including 'The Black Cat' and 'The Purloined Letter.' Being an animal person, I had trouble with 'The Black Cat!' I got hooked instead by 'The Purloined Letter,' a Poe story with detective C. Auguste Dupin.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1972–2010).