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Crossword-Solution: FASTS 5 letters, 103 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Abstains from eating 1 answer
Abstains from food 1 answer
Abstinences. 1 answer
Admits nothing? 1 answer
Avoids eating 1 answer
Avoids food 1 answer
Certain periods of self-denial 1 answer
Conducts a hunger strike 1 answer
Consumes less, in a way 1 answer
Crash diets 1 answer
Diets drastically 1 answer
Diets strenuously 1 answer
Does a Ramadan observance 1 answer
Does without, in a way 1 answer
Doesn't eat for a while 1 answer
Doesn't eat, for instance 1 answer
Doesn't have a thing 1 answer
Doesn't have anything 1 answer
Doesn't put anything away for a while? 1 answer
Doesn't take anything in 1 answer
Doesn't take sides ... or anything else? 1 answer
Drastic diets 1 answer
Eats little 1 answer
Eats nothing 1 answer
Eats very little. 1 answer
Eschews chow 1 answer
Eschews edibles 1 answer
Eschews food 1 answer
Extreme diets 1 answer
Forgoes food 1 answer
Gandhi's political protests. 1 answer
Gandhi's protests. 1 answer
Goes on a hunger strike 1 answer
Goes on a hunger strike, say 1 answer
Goes on a strike of a sort 1 answer
Goes on strike, in a way 1 answer
Goes without fare 1 answer
Goes without food 1 answer
Lenten disciplines. 1 answer
Lenten observances 1 answer
More than diets 1 answer
Numerous periods in Gandhi's life. 1 answer
Obeys Yom Kippur requirements 1 answer
Observances on Yom Kippur and Tisha B'Av 1 answer
Observes Ember days. 1 answer
Observes Lent 1 answer
Observes Paryushana 1 answer
Observes Ramadan 1 answer
Observes Ramadan, e.g. 1 answer
Observes Ramadan, in a way 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FASTS (5)

Alexandra had found that she could often break his fasts and long penances by talking to him and letting him pour out the thoughts that troubled him.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
Concerning these things preachers heretofore taught but little, and urged only childish and needless works, as particular holy-days, particular fasts, brotherhoods, pilgrimages, services in honor of saints, the use of rosaries, monasticism, and such like.
The Confession of Faith Various 2008
The moneys deposited upon the shrines are appropriated by priests; the priests are married men, and have families to provide for; they “take the good with the bad,” and continue to recommend fasts.
Eothen A. W. Kinglake 2008
Then I strove to rise up, but fell back again; a white light, empty of all sights, broke upon me for a moment, and lo I behold, I was lying in my familiar bed, the south-westerly gale rattling the Venetian blinds and making their hold-fasts squeak.
A Dream of John Ball, A King's Lesson William Morris 2008
The time came that Wunzh reached the age when every Indian boy fasts so that he may see in a vision the Spirit that is to be his guide through life.
Good Stories For Great Holidays Frances Jenkins Olcott 1995

Quotes with FASTS (3)

Festivals and fasts are unhinged, traveling backward at a rate of ten days per year, attached to no season. Even Laylat ul Qadr, the holiest night in Ramadan, drifts--its precise date is unknown. The iconclasm laid down by Muhammed was absolute: you must resist attachment not only to painted images, but to natural ones. Ramadan, Muharram, the Eids; you associate no religious event with the tang of snow in the air, or spring thaw, or the advent of summer. God permeates these t…
G. Willow Wilson The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam
We all colour devotion according to our own likings and dispositions. One man sets great value on fasting, and believes himself to be leading a very devout life, so long as he fasts rigorously, although the while his heart is full of bitterness; — and while he will not moisten his lips with wine, perhaps not even with water, in his great abstinence, he does not scruple to steep them in his neighbour’s blood, through slander and detraction.
Francis de Sales Introduction to the Devout Life
He's a hedonist at heart. All those fasts and vigils and stakes and crosses are only a façade. Or only like foam on the seashore. Out at sea, out in His sea, there is pleasure, and more pleasure. He makes no secret of it... He has a bourgeois mind. He has filled His world full of pleasures.
C. S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYM, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 186 times in crossword archives (1948–2025).