Crossword-Solution: EXCELSIOR 9 letters, 17 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

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Word Word Type Definition
Excelsior v. t. More lofty; still higher; ever upward.
Excelsior n. A kind of stuffing for upholstered furniture,
mattresses, etc., in which curled shreds of wood are substituted for
curled hair.

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Fine wood shavings 1 answer
Signoff favored by Stan Lee 1 answer
Rearranged six Creole wood cuttings (9) 1 answer
New York's state motto 1 answer
New York's "ever upward" motto 1 answer
New York state motto ("ever upward") 1 answer
NEW York State motto 1 answer
Motto of the Empire State. 1 answer
New York's motto 2 answers
NEW York State nickname 2 answers
Padding material 2 answers
LONGFELLOW (Henry Wadsworth), literary work of 7 answers
Packing material 10 answers
"Packing" 23 answers
Packaging 47 answers
ascending 48 answers
Up 87 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EXCELSIOR (5)

Taking Thea into the studio, which was littered with excelsior and packing-cases, she stood holding her hand and looking at her in the strong light from the big window before she allowed her to sit down.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
But more often she came forward to you from the rear of the store, with bits of excelsior clinging to her black sateen apron.
Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 2008
Then it recited 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' and afterwards 'Excelsior.' You see, the chicken had eaten an Elocution Pill." They now bade good-bye to the Professor, and thanking him for his kind reception mounted again into the red wagon and continued their journey.
The Emerald City of Oz L. Frank Baum 1996
From the front, Howland & Gould's grocery was smug enough, but attached to the rear was a lean-to of storm streaked pine lumber with a sanded tar roof--a staggering doubtful shed behind which was a heap of ashes, splintered packing-boxes, shreds of excelsior, crumpled straw-board, broken olive-bottles, rotten fruit, and utterly disintegrated vegetables: orange carrots turning black, and potatoes with ulcers.
Main Street Sinclair Lewis 2006
And, indeed, except for a few wads of wet excelsior, there was nothing in the box of Reginald Maltravers.
The Cruise of the Jasper B. Don Marquis 1996

Quotes with EXCELSIOR (2)

Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.
P.T. Barnum The Art of Money Getting
At least you've brought gifts. What's in the basket?" She rummaged through the contents. "A few sweetmeats and lozenges. Packets of raisins. But mostly it's Aunt Thea's surplus cosmetics and remedies. She sends away for every product advertised in every ladies' magazine. I like to see them put to some use." He blinked at her. "These are your gifts?""Your men have depleted our stores of food, and I didn't have time to prepare anything else.""What are they supposed to do with-"…
Tessa Dare When a Scot Ties the Knot
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal.

Used 8 times in crossword archives (1959–2022).