Crossword-Solution: MAINSTAY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mainstay | n. | The stay extending from the foot of the foremast to the maintop. |
| Mainstay | n. | Main support; principal dependence. |
We have 27 clues for the answer “MAINSTAY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Someone or something that provides the chief support | 1 answer |
| Chief supporter | 1 answer |
| Chief support | 1 answer |
| Bread and butter, so to speak | 1 answer |
| *Chief source of support | 1 answer |
| Dependable type | 1 answer |
| Primary source of support | 1 answer |
| Principal support | 1 answer |
| Primary supporter | 2 answers |
| Central component | 2 answers |
| good right arm | 3 answers |
| Mast support | 6 answers |
| BULWARK, THE AUTHOR | 10 answers |
| Bastion | 19 answers |
| lifeline | 22 answers |
| pillar | 22 answers |
| GREAT thing | 27 answers |
| bulwark | 28 answers |
| cornerstone | 30 answers |
| Strut | 34 answers |
| prop | 35 answers |
| Essential Part | 36 answers |
| Backbone | 46 answers |
| great doings | 47 answers |
| Anchor | 50 answers |
| Post | 85 answers |
| Support | 104 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZMEAEC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with MAINSTAY (5)
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The name GNU is itself recursive (the mainstay of the LISP language); it stands for "Gnu's Not Unix."} When it is released, everyone will be permitted to copy it and distribute it to others.
Oil has supplanted forestry as the mainstay of the economy, providing about two-thirds of government revenues and exports.
Since you have returned to me, and you are the mainstay of my life, I promise to renounce the crown in your favor, and to complete our wedding vows with you as emperor since my father, being advanced in years, wants me to rule in his stead." Tirant would not allow the lady to continue, and with a loving heart he said: "Even if I could, I find it difficult to accept your gracious and generous offer.
But she was afraid of Victor Dorn as we all are afraid of those we deeply respect--those whose respect is the mainstay of our self-confidence.
Quotes with MAINSTAY (3)
Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper, intellectually and spiritually.
A Seed for Contemplation: Creative people who cherish the gift of life often slip into the secret chambers of the creative mind. Their solutions are well-rounded, more sensible than those of people who rely solely upon reason as their mainstay. Gratitude unseals fountains of creativity, because a grateful person is relaxed. This allows him to take stock of his circumstances with an objective mind. A creative person often gets three-dimensional answers to his problems. — ,
Here we introduce the nation's first great communications monopolist, whose reign provides history's first lesson in the power and peril of concentrated control over the flow of information. Western Union's man was one Rutherford B. Hates, an obscure Ohio politician described by a contemporary journalist as "a third rate nonentity." But the firm and its partner newswire, the Associated Press, wanted Hayes in office, for several reasons. Hayes was a close friend of William Hen…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 20 times in crossword archives (1981–2023).