Crossword-Solution: FIXATIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fixative | n. | That which serves to set or fix colors or drawings, as a mordant. |
We have 23 clues for the answer “FIXATIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| liquid used to preserve or hold things in place | 1 answer |
| Varnish used by artists. | 1 answer |
| Varnish sprayed on drawings. | 1 answer |
| TENDING to fix | 1 answer |
| Substance used to protect or stabilize | 1 answer |
| Preservative substance | 1 answer |
| Poligrip, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Denture wearer's purchase | 1 answer |
| Chemical substance used in a darkroom | 1 answer |
| Flypaper? | 2 answers |
| BINDING agent | 3 answers |
| Darkroom abbr. | 10 answers |
| A REMOVABLE DENTURE | 10 answers |
| DARKROOM CHEMICAL | 10 answers |
| A COMPOUND THAT FIXES TISSUES AND CELLS FOR MICROSCOPIC STUDY | 11 answers |
| A CHEMICAL SUBSTANCE USED IN FUMIGATION | 11 answers |
| connecting medium | 23 answers |
| Perfume ingredient | 24 answers |
| Dyestuff | 31 answers |
| Glue | 32 answers |
| Gum | 34 answers |
| Dye | 45 answers |
| Plaster | 49 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
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with FIXATIVE (5)
Morrow, can you let me have some fixative?" called a voice; and Joy moved her eyes cautiously, and saw a pretty, panting girl in the doorway.
She remained silent as long as I was on the drawing, but as soon as the scrape of the charcoal ceased and I took up my fixative she began to chatter.
Whyte's model, and Pinkie McCormick--we call her Pinkie because she's got that beautiful red hair you artists like so much--and Lizzie Burke." I sent a shower of spray from the fixative over the canvas, and said: "Well, go on." "We saw Kelly and Baby Barnes the skirt-dancer and--and all the rest.
The place was aromatic with the odour of paints, varnishes, turpentine, and fixative; he opened the big window, let in air and sunshine, and picked up a sheaf of brushes, soft and pliable from a fresh washing in turpentine and black soap.
Finally, loosening a particle as tiny as a snowflake, she grasped it with tweezers, placed it on the sheet of transparent plastic on which she was reconstructing the page, and set it with a mist of fixative from a little spraygun.
Quotes with FIXATIVE (3)
We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time. But it's all much odder than this. Who was it said that memory is what we thought we'd forgotten? And it ought to be obvious to us that time doesn't act as a fixative, rather as a solvent. But it's not convenient--- it's not useful--- to believe this; it doesn't help us get on with our lives; so we ignore it.
Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one day was enough, or an interval of a few hours, or a routine change of place, for an everyday event with a lyrical value that I did not sense at the time, to become suddenly adorned with a radiant echo, the echo ordinarily reserved only for those memories which have been standing for many years in the powerful fixative of lyrical oblivion.
What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a fixative and thereby rescued from oblivion--is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling. Too many conflicting emotional interests are involved for life ever to be wholly acceptable, and possibly it is the work of the storyteller to rearrange things so that they conform to this end. In any ca…
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Appears in: NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1951–2019).