Crossword-Solution: NEUTERS
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| NEUTERS | anagram | RETUNES, TENERUS, TENURES, TUREENS |
We have 12 clues for the answer “NEUTERS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Desexes | 1 answer |
| Fixes, as Fido | 1 answer |
| Fixes, as Rover | 1 answer |
| Insect workers. | 1 answer |
| People who take no part in a controversy. | 1 answer |
| Persons "on the fence." | 1 answer |
| Spays, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Worker ants and bees. | 1 answer |
| Spays | 2 answers |
| Gets fixed | 2 answers |
| Fixes, in a way | 9 answers |
| Fixes | 25 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with NEUTERS (5)
From neuters and their leven’d lump, Who name the King and mean the Rump, Or care not much what card is trump, God bless, etc.
Men and women in English are masculine and feminine, and there is a similar distinction of sex in the words denoting animals; but all things else, whether outward objects or abstract ideas, are relegated to the class of neuters.
These latter, by which alone the variety can be propagated, may be compared with the fertile male and female ants, and the double sterile plants with the neuters of the same community.
But we have not as yet touched on the acme of the difficulty; namely, the fact that the neuters of several ants differ, not only from the fertile females and males, but from each other, sometimes to an almost incredible degree, and are thus divided into two or even three castes.
Smith has shown that the neuters of several British ants differ surprisingly from each other in size and sometimes in colour; and that the extreme forms can be linked together by individuals taken out of the same nest: I have myself compared perfect gradations of this kind.
Quotes with NEUTERS (3)
Marain, the Culture’s quintessentially wonderful language (so the Culture will tell you), has, as any schoolkid knows, one personal pronoun to cover females, males, in-betweens, neuters, children, drones, Minds, other sentient machines, and every life-form capable of scraping together anything remotely resembling a nervous system and the rudiments of language (or a good excuse for not having either). Naturally, there are ways of specifying a person’s sex in Marain, but they’r…
People talk a lot about all the homosexuals there are to see in Greenwich Village, but it was all the neuters that caught my eye that day. These were my people -- as used as I was to wanting love from nowhere, as certain as I was that almost anything desirable was likely to be booby-trapped.
Damned Neuters in their Middle way of Steering Are neither Fish nor Flesh nor good Red Herring.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, WSJ.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1945–2021).