Crossword-Solution: MISFIRES
We have 7 clues for the answer “MISFIRES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Doesn't go off as expected | 1 answer |
| Doesn't shoot | 1 answer |
| Fails in its intended effect. | 1 answer |
| Fails to get results | 1 answer |
| Fails to shoot | 1 answer |
| Rifle problems | 1 answer |
| *Fails | 12 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
EZEACM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with MISFIRES (5)
MISFIRES IN BLASTING One of the most common sources of accident in mining operations is due either to carelessness or to the use of defective material in blasting.
The first two stopped and left it trilling along by itself, catching occasionally like a motor-car engine that misfires, until it, too, stuttered into silence.
The Stokes gun will fire one hundred twelve-pound shells in three minutes, if no time is lost with misfires.
Still, as I said before, the Latin word "margo" does mean "the limit." FIFTH EXTRACT MISFIRES My family had a curious dread that I should marry a groom.
The large charges in deep holes break the walls very irregularly; misfires cause more delay; timbering is more difficult in the face of heavy blasting charges; and the larger amount of spoil broken at one time delays renewed drilling, and altogether the advantages seem to lie with hand-drilling in shafts of large horizontal section.
Quotes with MISFIRES (3)
What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.
It's obvious that any new show comes with its share of blunders, misfires, and bad choices.
Bad movies: they can be tatty classics of crazed ineptitude, like Edward D. Wood's 'Glen or Glenda' and 'Plan 9 from Outer Space,' or big-budget misfires like the 1987 'Ishtar,' a would-be comedy that sent Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman on a Hope-Crosby Road to Dystopia.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1967–2016).