Crossword-Solution: MOTHBALLS
We have 6 clues for the answer “MOTHBALLS”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Naphthalene in our home chemistry set | 1 answer |
| Protection for clothes | 1 answer |
| Protectors of closet clothing | 1 answer |
| Puts in storage | 1 answer |
| Sweater safeguards | 1 answer |
| What some warships are in. | 1 answer |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "MOTHBALLS"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Dermatological complaint
?
E
?
C
?
Z
?
E
?
M
?
A
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
AZCEME
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
9 +1
New Suggestion for "MOTHBALLS"
Related word tools
Sentences with MOTHBALLS (5)
Let no Romany Rye romancing Barrow, or other fond fibbing sentimentalist, ever pretend to me hereafter that those persistent savages have even the ridiculous claim of the North American Indians to the interest of the civilized man, except as something to be morally and physically scoured and washed up, and drained and fumigated, and treated with insecticides and put away in mothballs.
Two of them, I am sure, you've met before, phenol, which is common carbolic acid, and naphthalene, which we use for mothballs.
The room smelled of chalk and ink and mothballs, but Pearl liked it, for to her it was the school-smell.
And more still, the new play that was then in preparation was called in and packed away with mothballs to wait until the old play had had its innings.
Betty must shake the mothballs out of that coat.” * * * * * Lizard Dan tooled his six mules across the East Fork.
Quotes with MOTHBALLS (3)
Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it. Another. The packages piled up on the floor, each a book sealed in four plastic envelopes.
His eyeless skull took in the line of costumes, the waxy debris of the makeup table. His empty nostrils snuffed up the mixed smells of mothballs, grease, and sweat. There was something here, he thought, that nearly belonged to the gods. Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflects the landscape. And yet... and yet... Inside this little world they had taken pains to put all the things you might think they…
I love the smell of old books,” Mandy sighed, inhaling deeply with the book pressed against her face. The yellow pages smelled of wood and paper mills and mothballs.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1965–2022).