Crossword-Solution: MEDUSA 6 letters, 107 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Medusa	n.	The Gorgon; or one of the Gorgons whose hair was changed into serpents, after which all who looked upon her were turned into stone.
Medusa	n.	Any free swimming acaleph; a jellyfish.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
MEDUSA	anagram	AMUSED, DESUMA, MAUDES, SEAMUD, USMADE

We have 107 clues for the answer “MEDUSA”

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'95 Annie Lennox album of covers that turned you to stone?	1 answer
1995 Annie Lennox album	1 answer
A Gorgon	1 answer
Chief of the Gorgons.	1 answer
Drop-dead ugly woman?	1 answer
Euryale's sister	1 answer
Figure from Greek mythology for whom every day was a bad hair day?	1 answer
Figure known for having bad hair?	1 answer
Figure seen on Athena's shield	1 answer
Gorgon defeated by Perseus	1 answer
Gorgon of Greek myth	1 answer
Gorgon slain by Perseus	1 answer
Gorgon who had a bad hair day every day	1 answer
Gorgon who had snakes for hair	1 answer
Gorgon whose head appeared on Athena's shield	1 answer
Gorgon whose looks were petrifying	1 answer
Gorgon with a herpetologist as a hairdresser?	1 answer
Gorgon with a stony stare	1 answer
Gorgon with hideous hair, in Greek myth	1 answer
Gorgon with venomous locks	1 answer
Gorgon, killed by Perseus.	1 answer
Greek Gorgon with snakes for hair	1 answer
Greek mythological figure with looks to die for	1 answer
Head on the Aegis of Athena.	1 answer
Her bangs had fangs	1 answer
Her hair is a fright	1 answer
Her look was petrifying	1 answer
Her looks could kill	1 answer
Her looks were petrifying	1 answer
Her sight was petrifying	1 answer
Hideous maiden slain by Perseus.	1 answer
Jellyfish with a mythological name	1 answer
Lady with a strange hair-do.	1 answer
Legendary stoner?	1 answer
Maiden who turned people to stone.	1 answer
Monster beheaded by Perseus	1 answer
Monster with snakes for hair	1 answer
Monster with wild hair	1 answer
Mortal sister of the immortal Stheno and Euryale	1 answer
Most famous of the Gorgons.	1 answer
Mother of Pegasus.	1 answer
Mythical monster depicted on the flag of Sicily	1 answer
Mythical monster with snakes for hair	1 answer
Mythological figure on the Sicilian flag	1 answer
Mythological figure with looks that could kill	1 answer
Mythological woman with unruly hair	1 answer
Neptune wife	1 answer
Odysseus nemesis	1 answer
One beheaded by Perseus	1 answer
One of the Gorgons	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

AEERT

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with MEDUSA (5)

Her hair seemed almost to have a life of its own, almost Medusa-like, thick, glossy and moist, lying in heavy, sweet-smelling masses over her forehead, over her small ears with their pink lobes, and far down upon her nape.

The Octopus Frank Norris 2008

The beautiful colour became livid, the eyes seemed to throw out sparks of hell-fire, the brows were wrinkled as though the folds of the flesh were the coils of Medusa’s snakes, and the lovely, blood-stained mouth grew to an open square, as in the passion masks of the Greeks and Japanese.

Dracula Bram Stoker 1995

What are we, after all? Half-evolved creatures in a transition stage, nearer perhaps to the Medusa on the one side than to perfected humanity on the other.

Round the Red Lamp Arthur Conan Doyle 2008

Deucalion and Pyrrha, escaping from the flood, repeopled the earth by casting behind them stones which became men and women; Heraulos was changed into stone for offending Mercury; Pyrrhus for offending Rhea; Phineus, and Polydectes with his guests, for offending Perseus: under the petrifying glance of Medusa's head such transformations became a thing of course.

History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Andrew Dickson White 1996

Far on her limits, where the burning shore Admits the ocean fervid from the sun Plunged in its waters, lay Medusa's fields Untilled; nor forests shaded, nor the plough Furrowed the soil, which by its mistress' gaze Was hardened into stone: Phorcus, her sire.

Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars Lucan 1996

Quotes with MEDUSA (3)

I’m fairly certain, Captain,” she said, “that the more you discover about me, the more you will dislike me. Therefore, let’s cut to the chase and acknowledge that we don’t like each other. Then we won’t have to bother with the in-between part.” She was so bloody frank and practical about the whole thing that Christopher couldn’t help but be amused.“I’m afraid I can’t oblige you.”“Why not?”“Because when you said that just now, I found myself starting to like you.”“You’ll recov…

Lisa Kleypas Love in the Afternoon

Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.

Joseph Campbell A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

Wouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only to stop listening to the Sirens (for the Sirens were men) for history to change its meaning? You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing.

Helene Cixous

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 119 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).