Crossword-Solution: EXCELSIOR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “EXCELSIOR”
| Clue | Answers |
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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.
But more often she came forward to you from the rear of the store, with bits of excelsior clinging to her black sateen apron.
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.
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.
And, indeed, except for a few wads of wet excelsior, there was nothing in the box of Reginald Maltravers.
Quotes with EXCELSIOR (2)
Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.
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-"…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1959–2022).