Crossword-Solution: MAGGOT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Maggot | n. | The footless larva of any fly. See Larval. |
| Maggot | n. | A whim; an odd fancy. |
We have 31 clues for the answer “MAGGOT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the larva of the housefly and blowfly commonly found in decaying organic matter | 1 answer |
| Rotten insect | 1 answer |
| Parasitic grub | 1 answer |
| One used in some wound-healing therapies | 1 answer |
| Obsessive idea | 1 answer |
| Little grub | 1 answer |
| Larva, whim or obsession | 1 answer |
| Larva found in decaying matter | 1 answer |
| Housefly larva | 1 answer |
| Fly-to-be | 1 answer |
| Concerning sight for sheep farmers | 1 answer |
| Bot. | 1 answer |
| Fantastic notion | 2 answers |
| Future fly | 2 answers |
| FLYBLOW | 2 answers |
| WORMLIKE form | 3 answers |
| WORM larva | 3 answers |
| Insect larva | 4 answers |
| Fly larva | 4 answers |
| AN INSECT IN THE INACTIVE STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT INTERMEDIATE BETWEEN LARVA AND ADULT | 10 answers |
| ANY WINGLESS BLOODSUCKING PARASITIC INSECT NOTED FOR ABILITY TO LEAP | 10 answers |
| CRAB LARVA | 10 answers |
| BEETLE larva | 11 answers |
| extravaganza | 14 answers |
| whimsy | 18 answers |
| Larva | 29 answers |
| animalcule | 32 answers |
| ideality | 48 answers |
| Grub | 50 answers |
| whim | 62 answers |
| exaggeration | 68 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 MAGGOT (5)
The sodden contentment of the fallen acorn is strangely significant; and it is astonishing how unpleasantly we are startled by the appearance of her horrible lover, the maggot.
One of them observing a maggot come from a filbert, which seemed to be uncommonly large, attempted to get it from his companion, who, not choosing to let it go, was immediately offered five guineas for it, which was accepted.
See if you’ll get a stranger to lead such a life here as that: a maggot must be born i’ the rotten cheese to like it, I reckon.
The air has a mouldering smell, and an earthy taste; any stray outer sounds that straggle in with some lost sunbeam, are muffled and heavy; and the worm, the maggot, and the rot have changed the surface of the wood beneath the touch, as time will seam and roughen a smooth hand.
After all, he was a little earth-maggot, just like all the other earth-maggots, like the squirrel he had eaten, like the other men he had seen fail and die, like Joe Hines and Henry Finn, who had already failed and were surely dead, like Elijah lying there uncaring, with his skinned face, in the bottom of the boat.
Quotes with MAGGOT (3)
Don’t dash off a six-thousand-word story before breakfast. Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen. Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will none the less get something that looks remarkably like it. Set yourself a “stint,” [London wrote 1,000 words nearly every day of his adult life] and see that you do that “stint” each day; you will have more words to your cr…
Maggot twitch, some people called it. If you’d seen much of the war, you had it. Some more. Some less. But everybody had it.
He tans into burning while the opening fanfare to "Peaches en Regalia" flows over him, the bugle call for a hippie army that marched at the peak of the American parabola, that moment when physics held its breath to allow levitation, a small reward before the descent. The hippies knew it then, Maggot Boy Johnson thinks; they couldn't build it into words but they could feel it; a floating in the stomach as history shifted direction. They stopped, hey, what's that sound, and kne…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1970–2016).