Crossword-Solution: GUNPOWDER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gunpowder | n. | A black, granular, explosive substance, consisting of an intimate mechanical mixture of niter, charcoal, and sulphur. It is used in gunnery and blasting. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “GUNPOWDER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Content of some shells | 1 answer |
| nitropowder | 1 answer |
| explosive mixture of potassium nitrate, sulphur, and charcoal | 1 answer |
| Ichabod Crane's horse in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" | 1 answer |
| Flintlock need | 1 answer |
| Explosive chemical mixture | 1 answer |
| Diabolical Chinese invention. | 1 answer |
| Black explosive | 1 answer |
| *Wile E. Coyote buy | 2 answers |
| Green tea. | 2 answers |
| SHELL, constituent of (mil.) | 2 answers |
| Explosive mixture | 2 answers |
| A LIGHT FLINTLOCK MUSKET | 10 answers |
| High explosive. | 10 answers |
| ammunition | 43 answers |
| Tea | 44 answers |
| Explosive | 74 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GUNPOWDER (5)
This appeared to be devoted to minerals, and the sight of a block of sulphur set my mind running on gunpowder.
Still he must have had fire and mettle in his day, if we may judge from the name he bore of Gunpowder.
Two other items of trade became all important for the future--the exportation of slaves and the importation of guns and gunpowder.
Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book.
Then he set in the middle of the table a heap of gunpowder, a little pile of black grains upon the white-scrubbed board.
Quotes with GUNPOWDER (3)
Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~ Liberty Jones
Once I made weapons carved from stone, I tied the weight to a wooden handle, a club to break the bones of my enemy. Then I became wiser... and sharpened the stone to a point and then fastened it to a stick; my arrow. I bent wood and hitched string to it; my bow. I kill my enemy with skill Then I became wiser... and made weapons forged from steel and took care to sharpen the blade of my sword. I kill my enemy with a stroke. Then I became wiser... and made the rifle that would,…
The fuse is lit. You can run all you want to but you leave a trail of gunpowder in your wake. There’s going to be a reckoning eventually.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1952–2012).