Crossword-Solution: GAY 3 letters, 386 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Gay superl. Excited with merriment; manifesting sportiveness or
delight; inspiring delight; livery; merry.
Gay superl. Brilliant in colors; splendid; fine; richly dressed.
Gay superl. Loose; dissipated; lewd.
Gay n. An ornament

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GAY anagram AGY, YAG

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"Bad Feminist" writer Roxane 1 answer
"Deck the Halls" descriptor 1 answer
"Don we now our __ apparel" 1 answer
"Glitter and Be ___" (aria from Leonard Bernstein's "Candide") 1 answer
"Glitter and Be _____" ("Candide" song) 1 answer
"Honor Thy Father" author Talese 1 answer
"Hunger" memoirist Roxane __ 1 answer
"Polly" playwright John 1 answer
"Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for ___ Rights" (2015 book by Ann Bausum) 1 answer
"The Beggar's Opera" author 1 answer
"The Beggar's Opera" composer 1 answer
"The Beggar's Opera" playwright 1 answer
"The Beggar's Opera" writer 1 answer
"The __ Divorcee" (Astaire/Rogers film) 1 answer
"The ___ Divorcee" 1 answer
"We're Having ___ Sex" (Ashley Gavin podcast) 1 answer
1890s description 1 answer
A British police officer charged a man when he called the officer's horse this 1 answer
American sprinter tyson 1 answer
Cheerfully bright or lively 1 answer
Applicant for a civil union, maybe 1 answer
Author Talese 1 answer
Author of "The Beggar's Opera" 1 answer
Author of "The Beggar's Opera," 1728. 1 answer
Sexually attracted to people of the same gender 1 answer
Brewer of golf 1 answer
Closeted, say 1 answer
Cole Porter tune "Who Said ___ Paree?" 1 answer
Electric Six hit "___ Bar" 1 answer
Enola Tibbets' middle name 1 answer
Enola ___ 1 answer
Enola or Paree 1 answer
Excited and merry. 1 answer
FEMALE prostitute (obs.) 1 answer
Feeling mirthful 1 answer
Flaming, say 1 answer
Flying the rainbow flag, maybe 1 answer
Flying the rainbow flag, perhaps 1 answer
Happy and carefree 1 answer
He wrote "The Beggar's Opera" 1 answer
His play "Polly” was banned in London in 1729. 1 answer
In a lighthearted mood 1 answer
In a merry mood 1 answer
John who wrote "She who has never lov'd, has never liv'd" 1 answer
John who wrote "The Beggar's Opera" 1 answer
Last name of a famous plane 1 answer
Like "Deck the Halls" apparel 1 answer
Like "Paree," in song 1 answer
Like 11 members of the 117th Congress 1 answer
Like Alan Turing and Alvin Ailey 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GAY (5)

Next comes Nibs, the gay and debonair, followed by Slightly, who cuts whistles out of the trees and dances ecstatically to his own tunes.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
Nor had they yet among the Sons of _Eve_ Got them new Names, till wandring ore the Earth, Through Gods high sufferance for the tryal of man, By falsities and lyes the greatest part Of Mankind they corrupted to forsake God their Creator, and th’ invisible Glory of him, that made them, to transform Oft to the Image of a Brute, adorn’d With gay Religions full of Pomp and Gold, And Devils to adore for Deities: Then were they known to men by various Names, And various Idols through the Heathen World.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
The Ass, seeing him drawing a dungcart, thus derided him: “Where, O boaster, are now all thy gay trappings, thou who are thyself reduced to the condition you so lately treated with contempt?” The Fox and the Mask A FOX entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
Sometimes I go up to the Catholic church with Emil, and it’s funny to see Marie standing there laughing and shaking hands with people, looking so excited and gay, with Frank sulking behind her as if he could eat everybody alive.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
Had he a moustache—no whiskers or beard?” “He had.” “What kind of a person is he?” “Oh! miss—I blush to name it—a gay man! But I know him to be very quick and trim, who might have made his thousands, like a squire.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Quotes with GAY (3)

Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.
L. M. Montgomery
I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.
Robert Michaels
Telling someone like my mother that Hell is a real, physical place, somewhere you can travel to and from, would be like spray-painting the statue of Jesus hanging over the pulpit during mass. Better off telling her the Pope is gay.
Bill Blais No Good Deed
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 232 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).