Crossword-Solution: FIREWATER
We have 20 clues for the answer “FIREWATER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Whiskey, in slang | 1 answer |
| Strong alcohol | 1 answer |
| Redeye or white lightning | 1 answer |
| Misguided gift to the American Indian. | 1 answer |
| Liquor, to Geronimo | 1 answer |
| It's still made | 1 answer |
| Alcohol, in slang | 1 answer |
| Beverage with an oxymoronic name | 1 answer |
| Boozer's contradiction | 1 answer |
| Imbiber's intake | 1 answer |
| Hard liquor | 2 answers |
| Sideshow performer | 5 answers |
| white mule | 7 answers |
| Whiskey ___ | 10 answers |
| Spirits | 26 answers |
| aqua vitae | 29 answers |
| liquor | 34 answers |
| ALCOHOLIC beverage | 44 answers |
| ALCOHOL | 46 answers |
| Fire | 120 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
ARAE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with FIREWATER (5)
This melds the mainstream slang adjective `wired' (stimulated, up, hyperactive) with `firewater'; however, it refers to caffeinacious rather than alcoholic beverages.
What they understood was that the French seemed to be good friends who brought them muskets, hatchets, cloth, and especially the loved but destructive firewater which the savage palate ever craved.
Among the Bloods there were frequent sun-dances where many braves were made and much firewater drunk with consequent blood-letting.
Red Crow deprecated these occurrences, but confessed his powerlessness to prevent the flow of either firewater or of blood.
Plenty ox, plenty bear meat, plenty firewater--” “You go back!” roared the tollkeeper, swearing, “and go ford the river.
Quotes with FIREWATER (2)
You and those shot-glass eyes, deep swirling pools of 80-proof firewater, with the depth and profundity of Saturn’s spinning pulsars…
For more than a century-and-a-half, Europeans had been killing North American Indians with firewater… Now, in the first decades of the nineteenth century, Canada’s pioneer settlers were killing themselves with their own medicine. About Canada. Toronto: Civil Sector Press, November, 2012. Alcohol, North American Indians, Settlers, Canada
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1955–2024).