Crossword-Solution: JACKSTRAWS
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Game of extrication | 1 answer |
| Game for steady hands | 2 answers |
| effigies | 4 answers |
| Children's game. | 33 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with JACKSTRAWS (5)
The man on my left is a down-easter with a liver which has struck work; looks like a human pumpkin; and how he contrives to whittle jackstraws all day, and eat as he does, I can’t understand.
There sat the wise man in the midst of his books and bottles and diagrams and dust and chemicals and cobwebs, making strange figures upon the table with jackstraws and a piece of chalk.
There is more edification, more religion, in this than in all the 666 interpretations put together.” There is something very pleasant in the thought of these two sages playing at jackstraws with the letters of the alphabet.
There is more edification, more religion, in this than in all the 666 interpretations put together." There is something very pleasant in the thought of these two sages playing at jackstraws with the letters of the alphabet.
The Game of Jackstraws There was a roar of laughter at the old man's boast, but in a moment all was activity.
Quotes with JACKSTRAWS (1)
The world was in truth made of jackstraws. The world was very combustible, the human body was partible in ways heretofore unimagined. What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will. Civilization was not in the natural order but was some wort of willed invention held taut like a fabric or a sail against the chaos of the winds. And why we had invented it, or how we knew to invent it, was beyond him. Newmann had seen some truth that was …
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1973–1983).