Crossword-Solution: EBONY 5 letters, 255 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Ebony	n.	A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss. The usual color is black, but it also occurs red or green.
Ebony	a.	Made of ebony, or resembling ebony; black; as, an ebony countenance.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
EBONY	anagram	BONEY, BOYNE, BYONE, ONEBY

We have 255 clues for the answer “EBONY”

Clue	Answers
"JET"'s monthly sister	1 answer
"Jet" sister mag	1 answer
"___ and Ivory" (#1 hit of 1982)	1 answer
"___ and Ivory" (McCartney/Wonder song)	1 answer
"___ and Ivory" (Wonder/McCartney duet)	1 answer
"___ and Ivory," 1982 hit song	1 answer
"___ and Ivory," 1982 song	1 answer
"___ and Ivory," McCartney-Wonder hit	1 answer
African sculpture material	1 answer
Dark, dense wood often used for piano keys	1 answer
Black board	1 answer
Black hardwood	1 answer
Black heartwood.	1 answer
Black key material	1 answer
Black key wood, traditionally	1 answer
Black piano key material	1 answer
Black, on a piano	1 answer
Black-key material	1 answer
Blackish timber	1 answer
Cabinet-making material.	1 answer
Certain wood	1 answer
Cherished wood	1 answer
Chicago-based magazine with one-million-plus circulation	1 answer
Chicago-based monthly since 1945	1 answer
Color of Poe's raven	1 answer
Color, also called teak	1 answer
Companion magazine to Jet	1 answer
Dark black colour	1 answer
Dark black hardwood	1 answer
Dark black wood	1 answer
Dark hardwood	1 answer
Dark musical material	1 answer
Dark timber	1 answer
Dark wood that sinks in water	1 answer
Dark wood used to make billiard cues	1 answer
Dark, durable wood	1 answer
Dark-colored heartwood	1 answer
Deep black wood	1 answer
Deep, lustrous black	1 answer
Dense dark wood	1 answer
Dense black wood	1 answer
Dense hardwood	1 answer
Durable dark wood	1 answer
Ethnic magazine since 1945	1 answer
Fine black wood	1 answer
Fine furniture wood	1 answer
Fingerboard wood	1 answer
Flat wood, in a sense	1 answer
Gleaming black.	1 answer
Goes with "Ivory," to McCartney/Wonder	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

EAERT

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with EBONY (5)

George, the elder, exhibited an ebony-tipped nose, surrounded by a narrow margin of pink flesh, and a coat marked in random splotches approximating in colour to white and slaty grey, but the grey, after years of sun and rain, had been scorched and washed out of the more prominent locks, leaving them of a reddish-brown, as if the blue component of the grey had faded, like the indigo from the same kind of colour in Turner’s pictures.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

There in the flickering light of the lamp was the machine sure enough, squat, ugly, and askew, a thing of brass, ebony, ivory, and translucent glimmering quartz.

The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992

These canisters smashed on striking the ground—they did not explode—and incontinently disengaged an enormous volume of heavy, inky vapour, coiling and pouring upward in a huge and ebony cumulus cloud, a gaseous hill that sank and spread itself slowly over the surrounding country.

The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992

The wood of some of the trees was as black as ebony, while their nearest neighbours might perhaps gleam in the subdued light of the forest as clear and white as the finest china, or, again, they were azure, scarlet, yellow, or deepest purple.

The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

The rays of the nearer moon, swinging low across the valley, touched his jewel-incrusted harness with a thousand changing lights and glanced from the glossy ebony of his smooth hide.

The Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Quotes with EBONY (3)

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

Langston Hughes

And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

Edgar Allan Poe The Masque of the Red Death

In actuality, it was like the homes of all people who are not really rich but who want to look rich, and therefore end up looking like one another: it had damasks, ebony, plants, carpets, and bronzes, everything dark and gleaming — all the effects a certain class of people produce so as to look like people of a certain class. And his place looked so much like the others that it would never have been noticed, though it all seemed quite exceptional to him.

Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 364 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).