Crossword-Solution: HARPY 5 letters, 71 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Harpy n. A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the
face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the
face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three.
Harpy n. One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner.
Harpy n. The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus
aeruginosus).
Harpy n. A large and powerful, double-crested, short-winged American
eagle (Thrasaetus harpyia). It ranges from Texas to Brazil.

We have 71 clues for the answer “HARPY”

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Hideous shrew of Greek mythology 1 answer
AELLO 1 answer
AMERICAN eagle 1 answer
Bird woman of myth 1 answer
Bird-woman of myth 1 answer
Birdlike monster of myth 1 answer
Creature that's part woman and part bird 1 answer
Fierce-tempered woman 1 answer
Flying monster of myth 1 answer
Grasping person 1 answer
Half-bird, half-woman creature 1 answer
Half-bird, half-woman monster 1 answer
Half-human/half-bird creature of myth 1 answer
Half-woman, half-bird 1 answer
Half-woman, half-bird monster 1 answer
Hideous hybrid of myth 1 answer
Hybrid woman-bird monster 1 answer
Monster encountered by Aeneas 1 answer
Mythical bird monster [SEE NOTE ABOVE] 1 answer
Mythical hounder 1 answer
Mythical winged monster 1 answer
Mythical winged monster with a woman's head. 1 answer
Part woman, part bird 1 answer
Part woman, part bird creature 1 answer
Part woman, part bird of myth 1 answer
Part-woman, part-bird creature 1 answer
Scolding, nagging sort 1 answer
Winged monster of Greek myth 1 answer
Winged monster of mythology. 1 answer
winged monster 1 answer
Monster of Greek myth 2 answers
Mythical bird-woman 2 answers
Bad-tempered woman 3 answers
Shrewish one 4 answers
Ogress 4 answers
Monster of myth 5 answers
Shrewish woman 5 answers
Birdlike 5 answers
Xanthippe 6 answers
BATTLEAX 7 answers
Mythical beast 7 answers
___ bitch 7 answers
Rapacious person 8 answers
hellhound 8 answers
hellcat 9 answers
Grabber 9 answers
BIRD MYTHICAL ARCHER 10 answers
fishwife 10 answers
bird mythical 11 answers
A CREATURE OF TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY 11 answers
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Sentences with HARPY (5)

Thither by harpy-footed Furies hail’d, At certain revolutions all the damn’d Are brought: and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extreams, extreams by change more fierce, From Beds of raging Fire to starve in Ice Thir soft Ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, infixt, and frozen round, Periods of time, thence hurried back to fire.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
The Harpy There was a woman, and she was wise; woefully wise was she; She was old, so old, yet her years all told were but a score and three; And she knew by heart, from finish to start, the Book of Iniquity.
The Spell of the Yukon Robert Service 1995
But her most subtle wiles proved ineffectual in ridding her, even for a moment, of her harpy jailer; and now that the final summons had come, she was beside herself for a lack of means to thwart her captor.
The Outlaw of Torn Edgar Rice Burroughs 1995
Book three, line two forty-five-- "'Una in praecelsa consedit rupe Celaeno----'" "It doesn't matter what that hideous old Harpy howled at the pious Aeneas," he grumbled.
The Cost David Graham Phillips 1996
Such folk as the pastor's harpy relatives will generally have a boat, and will never have paid for it; such men as the pastor may have sometimes paid for a boat, but they will never have one.
A Footnote to History Robert Louis Stevenson 2005

Quotes with HARPY (3)

I'll tell you something, Harpy," he said, his voice almost a whisper now. "It never even occurred to me that we wouldn't make it. And it never occurred to you that we would. You were just waiting for us to go down in flames. I thought we could get through anything.
Kristan Higgins My One and Only
If there was a party, everyone in turn would come sit next to me to regale me with how he or sh thought I should live and what I deserved to have. What it boiled down to was that I should live like them. Elvire, one half of a tightly knit couple would forget that her husband was clinically depressed. Guillaume, married to a harpy, maintained that if one laid low and said amen to everything, things worked out. Maria, fed up to the teeth with her children, wanted me to have my …
Sophie Fontanel The Art of Sleeping Alone: Why One French Woman Suddenly Gave Up Sex
I've come to gamble." The old man's mouth twitched. He put down his shish kebab and leaned toward Percy. "A gamble... how interesting. Information in exchange for the harpy? Winner take all?""No," Percy said. "The harpy isn't part of the deal." Phineas laughed. "Really? Perhaps you don't understand her value.""She's a person," Percy said. "She isn't for sale.
Rick Riordan The Son of Neptune
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.

Used 54 times in crossword archives (1952–2023).