Crossword-Solution: NESTLINGS
We have 13 clues for the answer “NESTLINGS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Aerie babies | 1 answer |
| Aerie brood | 1 answer |
| Batch that's hatched | 1 answer |
| Relatives of squabs. | 1 answer |
| Squabs. | 1 answer |
| Their food gets flown in | 1 answer |
| Young birds misinterpreted glint in Scottish loch (9) | 1 answer |
| Little birds | 3 answers |
| Chicks | 5 answers |
| Babes in the woods? | 8 answers |
| Young 'uns | 8 answers |
| Young birds | 9 answers |
| Aerie area | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with NESTLINGS (5)
But she has no great tenderness even in her best of moods, and, sooner or later—oftener soon than late—is apt to fling off her nestlings with a scratch of her claw, a dab of her beak, or a rankling wound from her barbed arrows.
For these roam wide Wasting all substance, or the bees themselves Strike flying, and in their beaks bear home, to glut Those savage nestlings with the dainty prey.
Late afternoons the burrowing owls may be seen blinking at the doors of their hummocks with perhaps four or five elfish nestlings arow, and by twilight begin a soft whoo-oo-ing, rounder, sweeter, more incessant in mating time.
They were unusually fine babies, but what chance has merely a fine baby in a family that possesses a prodigy? The Cardinal was as large as any two of the other nestlings, and so red the very down on him seemed tinged with crimson; his skin and even his feet were red.
And when the bird had come flying up, she perceived that her little ones were covered over, and she said, ‘Who has wrapped up my nestlings?’ and presently, seeing the Prince, she added: ‘Didst thou do that? Thanks! In return, ask of me anything thou desirest.
Quotes with NESTLINGS (3)
[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It's just like the crow, when it produces white nestlings: it is so stricken by envy, knowing how black it is itself, that it kills its own offspring out of pique.
Many people are seeking, at this very moment, to shelter themselves under the wing of the federal eagle; imagining, I presume, that her bosom has all the softness and snugness of an eider-down pillow. But she has no great tenderness, even in her best of moods, and, sooner or later, --oftener sooner than late,-- is apt to fling off her nestlings with a scratch of her claw, a dab of her beak, or a rankling wound from her barbed arrows.
This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly
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Appears in: New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1960–2022).