Crossword-Solution: HEADLESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Headless | a. | Having no head; beheaded; as, a headless body, neck, or carcass. |
| Headless | a. | Destitute of a chief or leader. |
| Headless | a. | Destitute of understanding or prudence; foolish; rash; obstinate. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “HEADLESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ACEPHALOUS | 1 answer |
| He's about to reform Slade without leader | 1 answer |
| Ichabod Crane's horseman. | 1 answer |
| Irving's ___ horseman | 1 answer |
| Like Irving's Hessian horseman | 1 answer |
| Like Irving's horseman | 1 answer |
| Like the horseman of Sleepy Hollow. | 1 answer |
| Without a leader | 3 answers |
| BRONZE HORSEMAN, THE AUTHOR | 10 answers |
| A WOMAN HORSEMAN | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERTA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HEADLESS (5)
Meanwhile, the press had taken up my affair, and kept me for a week or two careering through the public prints, in my decapitated state, like Irving’s Headless Horseman, ghastly and grim, and longing to be buried, as a political dead man ought.
Such is the general purport of this legendary superstition, which has furnished materials for many a wild story in that region of shadows; and the spectre is known at all the country firesides, by the name of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.
Carthoris, fearful lest Vas Kor might similarly elude him, or Astok return immediately with reinforcements, sprang viciously in upon his antagonist, and a moment later the headless body of the Dusarian noble rolled upon the ersite floor.
The likeness passed away, like a breath along the surface of the gaunt pier-glass behind her, on the frame of which, a hospital procession of negro cupids, several headless and all cripples, were offering black baskets of Dead Sea fruit to black divinities of the feminine gender--and he made his formal bow to Miss Manette.
Like tailors’ dummies they were headless; and like tailors’ dummies they had a handsome unnecessary humpiness in the shoulders, and a pigeon-breasted protuberance of chest; but barring this, they were not much more like a human figure than any automatic machine at a station that is about the human height.
Quotes with HEADLESS (3)
One grave in every graveyard belongs to the ghouls. Wander any graveyard long enough and you will find it - water stained and bulging, with cracked or broken stone, scraggly grass or rank weeds about it, and a feeling, when you reach it, of abandonment. It may be colder than the other gravestones, too, and the name on the stone is all too often impossible to read. If there is a statue on the grave it will be headless or so scabbed with fungus and lichens as to look like fungu…
Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary was beheaded, the people who were watching saw her skirts moving about and they thought her headless body was trying to get itself to its feet. But the movement turned out to be her dog, which she had carried to the block with her, hidden in her skirts. Mary Stuart is supposed to have faced her execution with grace and courage (she wore a scarlet chemise to suggest she was being …
Let him who thinks war is a glorious, golden thing, who loves to roll forth stirring words of exhortation, invoking honour and praise and valour and love of country … Let him but look at a little pile of sodden grey rags that cover half a skull and a shin-bone and what might have been its ribs, or at this skeleton lying on its side, resting half crouching as it fell, perfect that it is headless, and with the tattered clothing still draped round it; and let him realize how gra…
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1956–2020).