Crossword-Solution: MORIARTY
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MORIARTY | anagram | TRIAMORY |
We have 13 clues for the answer “MORIARTY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "The Napoleon of Crime" | 1 answer |
| "The greatest schemer of all time, the organizer of every devilry," in literature | 1 answer |
| Sherlock Holmes's criminal nemesis | 1 answer |
| Archenemy of Holmes | 1 answer |
| Arch-nemesis of Sherlock Holmes | 1 answer |
| Doyle's "Napoleon of crime" | 1 answer |
| Famous criminal | 1 answer |
| Holmes fought him | 1 answer |
| Holmes nemesis | 1 answer |
| Holmes's archnemesis, the "Napoleon of crime" | 1 answer |
| Literary "greatest schemer of all time" | 1 answer |
| Sherlock Holmes villain | 1 answer |
| Sherlockian villain | 1 answer |
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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
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Sentences with MORIARTY (5)
The course of events in London did not run so well as I had hoped, for the trial of the Moriarty gang left two of its most dangerous members, my own most vindictive enemies, at liberty.
But I cared a great deal for the much more formidable person who was behind him, the bosom friend of Moriarty, the man who dropped the rocks over the cliff, the most cunning and dangerous criminal in London.
Have you heard the name?” “No, I have not.” “Well, well, such is fame! But, then, if I remember right, you had not heard the name of Professor James Moriarty, who had one of the great brains of the century.
Moriarty supplied him liberally with money, and used him only in one or two very high-class jobs, which no ordinary criminal could have undertaken.
When we were in Switzerland he followed us with Moriarty, and it was undoubtedly he who gave me that evil five minutes on the Reichenbach ledge.
Quotes with MORIARTY (3)
So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, and all the people dreaming in the immensity of it, and in Iowa I know by now the children must be crying in the land where they let the children cry, and tonight the stars'll be out, and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear? the even…
No crime too small’ was never exactly Moriarty’s slogan, but the criminal genius would apply himself to minor offences if an unusual challenge was presented.
Moriarty rarely smiled, and then usually to terrify some poor victim. The first time I heard him laugh, I thought he had been struck by a deadly poison and the stutter escaping through his locked jaws was a death rattle.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1973–2019).