Crossword-Solution: MINOTAUR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Minotaur | n. | A fabled monster, half man and half bull, confined in the labyrinth constructed by Daedalus in Crete. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MINOTAUR (5)
There stands the cunning workman, the crafty past all praise, The man who chained the Minotaur, the man who built the Maze.
From that labyrinth no one can escape, entangled in its winding ways, before they meet the Minotaur, the monster who feeds upon the flesh of men.
While he was doing this he suddenly said, or rather screamed, ‘Oh?’ And we looked, and it was a creature with great horns and a fur rug--something like a bull and something like a minotaur--and I don’t wonder Denny was frightened.
The Minotaur "Being a well-educated earthling," Zeus began, a slight touch of sarcasm in his voice, "You are undoubtedly familiar with the legends of the Minotaur?" "I have been told the legend by my mother, sire." "Ah, a wise woman.
Captain Louis, in the MINOTAUR, anchored just ahead, and took off the fire of the AQUILON, the fourth in the enemy's line.
Quotes with MINOTAUR (3)
Mythologically speaking, if there's anything I hate worse than trios of old ladies, it's bulls. Last summer, I fought the Minotaur on top of Half-Blood Hill. This time what I saw up there was even worse: two bulls. And not just regular bulls - bronze ones the size of elephants. And even that wasn't bad enough. Naturally they had to breathe fire, too.
We ought to be much more fearful of what we don’t know. We should really be fearful of an unconscious that inhabits us, that guides us, that influences our life and of which we don’t know the face and don’t know the message. Actually I have much less fear since I confronted fears. What’s frightening to me is people whose unconscious leads them, destroys them, and yet they will never stop and look at it. That’s the minotaur in the labyrinth, which many people never come face t…
[Picasso] loved... women for the sexual, carnivorous impulses they aroused in him. Mixing blood and sperm, he exalted women in his paintings, imposed his violence on them, and sentenced them to death once he felt their mystery had been discharged and the sexual power they instilled in him had dulled... Women were his prey. He was the Minotaur. These were bloody, indecent bullfights from which he always emerged the dazzling victor.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 28 times in crossword archives (1953–2021).