Crossword-Solution: LEANDER 7 letters, 36 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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LEANDER anagram ALENDER, DARLENE, LEARNED, REDLANE

We have 36 clues for the answer “LEANDER”

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Lover in dire straits? 1 answer
Hero's beloved 1 answer
Hero's drowned swimmer. 1 answer
Hero's heartthrob 1 answer
Hero's hero 1 answer
Hero's love 1 answer
Hero's lover 1 answer
Hero's mythical beloved 1 answer
Heroic swimmer. 1 answer
Hero worshipper? 1 answer
Lover of Hero 1 answer
Lover of Hero, in Greek myth 1 answer
Natatorial youth of Greek legend. 1 answer
Nocturnal swimmer of Greek legend 1 answer
Swimmer of the Hellespont. 1 answer
Tragic lover of myth 1 answer
YOUTH of Abydos 1 answer
Hero lover 1 answer
ABYDOS, youth of 1 answer
Famous swimmer. 1 answer
Greek swimmer. 1 answer
Greek youth who drowned in the Hellespont 1 answer
Greek youth who swam the Hellespont 1 answer
He loved Hero 1 answer
He swam the Dardanelles. 1 answer
He swam the Hellespont for love 1 answer
He was drowned in the Hellespont. 1 answer
Hellespont swimmer 1 answer
Hellespont victim 1 answer
Hero admirer 1 answer
Hero for Hero 1 answer
Long-distance swimmer? 2 answers
Hero's partner 2 answers
Hero worshiper 3 answers
Legendary swimmer. 3 answers
DIRE straits 14 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LEANDER (5)

This prince had a son, named Leander, handsome, accomplished, amiable--in every respect the opposite of Prince Furibon.
The Little Lame Prince Miss Mulock--Pseudonym of Maria Dinah Craik 2006
Out of the mingled sounds was heard, "I agrees with Sandy, he's the dirtiest coward as ever went unhung." Lillian started, for she recognized the voice of the Jedge, who with Colonel Franklin, Sandy, Dink, Leander and Gilbert, were returning from a sail up the river.
The Fifth String, The Conspirators John Philip Sousa 1996
And the yearning for _ME_ That thou wistfully weepest! And the question is ‘License or Banns?’, though undoubtedly Banns are the cheapest.” “Be my Hero,” said I, “And let _me_ be Leander!” But I lost her reply— Something ending with “gander”— For the omnibus rattled so loud that no mortal could quite understand her.
Phantasmagoria Lewis Carroll 2013
Note: The practical illustration of the possibility of Leander’s feat by Lord Byron and other English swimmers is too well known to need particularly reference—M.] 17 (return) [ See the seventh book of Herodotus, who has erected an elegant trophy to his own fame and to that of his country.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon 1996
Her tender complaints, and the weighty arguments of Leander, archbishop of Seville, accomplished his conversion and the heir of the Gothic monarchy was initiated in the Nicene faith by the solemn rites of confirmation.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon 1996

Quotes with LEANDER (3)

Thus Time, and all-states-ordering Ceremony Had banished all offense: Time’s golden thigh Upholds the flowery body of the earth In sacred harmony, and every birth Of men and actions makes legitimate, Being used aright. The use of time is Fate.---From “Hero and Leander, Sestiad III
Christopher Marlowe Complete Poems and Translations
What virtue is it that is born with us? Much less can honor be ascribed thereto, Honor is purchased by the deeds we do. Believe me, Hero, honor is not won, Until some honorable deed be done.----From “Hero and Leander, Sestiad I
Christopher Marlowe Complete Poems and Translations
As for Gus, he had come to Haddan with no appreciation for the human race and no expectations of his fellow man. He was full ready to confront contempt; he'd been beleaguered and insulted often enough to have learned to ignore anything with a heartbeat. Still, every once in a while he made an exception, as he did with Carlin Leander. He appreciated everything about Carlin and lived for the hour when they left their books and sneaked off to the graveyard. Not even the crow nes…
Alice Hoffman The River King
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Used 46 times in crossword archives (1943–2023).