Crossword-Solution: MUSKRATS
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Aquatic rodents | 1 answer |
| Minks' prey | 1 answer |
| Water-loving rodents | 1 answer |
| Fur animals. | 7 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MUSKRATS (5)
This is stored away by the muskrats in their houses by the waterside, and there is often a bushel or more of the psinchinchah to be found within.
The breath of spring niver got so strong with me that I could smell it above a bag of muskrats and me trappin' clothes." He arose, swung his bag to his shoulder, and together they left the bridge, and struck the road leading to Rainbow Bottom.
Muskrats swam noiselessly in the shadows, diving with a great commotion as the canoe ran upon them suddenly.
Like Hiram's upland corn, there was scarcely a hill missing, save where the muskrats had dug in from the river bank and disturbed the corn hills.
Whether the children rolled in the grass, or waded in the brook, or swam in the salt ocean, or sailed in the bay, or fished for smelts in the creeks, or netted minnows in the salt-marshes, or took to the pine-woods and the granite quarries, or chased muskrats and hunted snapping-turtles in the swamps, or mushrooms or nuts on the autumn hills, summer and country were always sensual living, while winter was always compulsory learning.
Quotes with MUSKRATS (2)
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..
If there is a place in heaven for Labrador Retrievers (and I trust there is or I won't go) it'll have to have a brook right smack in the middle - a brook with little thin shoals for wading and splashing; a brook with deep, still pools where they can throw themselves headlong from the bank; a brook with lots of small sticks floating that can be retrieved back to shore where they belong; a brook with muskrats and muskrat holes; a brook with green herons and wood ducks; a brook …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1958–2001).