Crossword-Solution: FASTNESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fastness | a. | The state of being fast and firm; firmness; fixedness; security; faithfulness. |
| Fastness | a. | A fast place; a stronghold; a fortress or fort; a secure retreat; a castle; as, the enemy retired to their fastnesses in the mountains. |
| Fastness | a. | Conciseness of style. |
| Fastness | a. | The state of being fast or swift. |
We have 23 clues for the answer “FASTNESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment | 1 answer |
| fortress, safe place | 1 answer |
| Fortress or fortified place | 1 answer |
| Well-defended place | 3 answers |
| redoubt | 5 answers |
| Nimbleness | 16 answers |
| speediness | 16 answers |
| Fortress | 16 answers |
| impulsiveness | 17 answers |
| Stronghold | 17 answers |
| Bastion | 19 answers |
| Beeline? | 21 answers |
| Highball? | 24 answers |
| defense | 25 answers |
| Rustle | 30 answers |
| Hotfoot | 31 answers |
| BUCKET ___ | 33 answers |
| Fort | 33 answers |
| Rocket | 37 answers |
| Sanctum | 38 answers |
| Pace | 53 answers |
| Barrel-__ | 56 answers |
| Run | 104 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FASTNESS (5)
All that night he forged ahead until, with the dawning of a new day, he entered the low foothills that guard the approach to the fastness of the mountains of Torquas.
Presently Tarzan took to the trees, and Jane, wondering that she felt no fear, began to realize that in many respects she had never felt more secure in her whole life than now as she lay in the arms of this strong, wild creature, being borne, God alone knew where or to what fate, deeper and deeper into the savage fastness of the untamed forest.
But the brain, and the agility, and the muscles that had coped with the mighty strength and cruel craftiness of Terkoz and Numa in the fastness of their savage jungle were not to be so easily subdued as these apaches of Paris had believed.
Tarzan could see no reason for believing that Jane could have found it advisable to deny her identity or that of the child; the only explanation that he could put upon the matter was that, after all, the white woman who had accompanied his son and the Swede into the jungle fastness of the interior had not been Jane at all.
What do you say? Shall we be friends or enemies?” “The girl and the treasure were both stolen from me by a rascally panglima, Ninaka,” said Muda Saffir, seeing that it would be as well to simulate friendship for the white man for the time being at least—there would always be an opportunity to use a kris upon him in the remote fastness of the interior to which Muda Saffir would lead them.
Quotes with FASTNESS (3)
I dragged myself to my feet, and with my hellhound in tow started off once more through the fastness of the wood, feeling, as the poet did before me, that my companion would be with me through the nights and through the days and down the arches of the years, and I should never be rid of him.
With hand gestures, you can fill in a lot of gaps, and the words thing and stuff and -ness also help: patientness instead of patience, fastness instead of speed, honestness instead of honesty. With these choices, many words can be indicated, and pointing or gesticulating usually works.
If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities: the quick exchange, the fastness of language and style, craftiness, the mixing of people and crossing of borders, imagination.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1986–2004).