Crossword-Solution: GOALPOSTS
We have 9 clues for the answer “GOALPOSTS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Field goal target | 1 answer |
| It's unfair to move them, in a sports metaphor | 1 answer |
| Moving these can make success elusive | 1 answer |
| Targets for some kickers | 1 answer |
| Targets of football kicks | 1 answer |
| They may be moved in unfair negotiations | 1 answer |
| Three-point landing places of a sort | 1 answer |
| Victor's gridiron spoils. | 1 answer |
| Another thing they might represent | 2 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
ZEAEMC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with GOALPOSTS (5)
Powell stopped the ball with a backhander when it was not fifty yards from the goalposts, and Shikast spun round with a wrench that nearly hoisted Powell out of his saddle.
They poured through the goalposts in one mixed mob, winners and losers together, for the pace had been terrific.
Its goalposts pricking up mournfully through the floods were a landmark which the boys recognised with rueful eyes in the midst of the drowned and deformed landscape.
After measuring and laying off, with a plough I ran furrows for boundary lines, stuck in the goalposts, filled up the dog-holes, etc., and there we were.
His opponent was a stone lighter and better mounted; so Alec's clear start would not save him from being overhauled and ridden off ere he came within a reasonable striking distance of the opposing goalposts.
Quotes with GOALPOSTS (3)
The difference between bush and ladder also allows us to put a lid on a fruitless and boring debate. That debate is over what qualifies as True Language. One side lists some qualities that human language has but that no animal has yet demonstrated: reference, use of symbols displaced of in time and space from their referents, creativity, categorical speech perception, consistent ordering, hierarchical structure, infinity, recursion, and so on. The other side finds some counte…
Why isn’t it fun to watch a videotape of last night’s football game even when we don’t know who won? Because the fact that the game has already been played precludes the possibility that our cheering will somehow penetrate the television, travel through the cable system, find its way to the stadium, and influence the trajectory of the ball as it hurtles toward the goalposts!
The most deceptive course in football is straight at the goalposts.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1956–2022).