Crossword-Solution: FIREWATER
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| 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
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZCEAEM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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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).