Crossword-Solution: OLDSTERS
We have 14 clues for the answer “OLDSTERS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A large part of the population. | 1 answer |
| An increasing percentage of our population. | 1 answer |
| Centenarians, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Centenarians, for example | 1 answer |
| Golden agers | 1 answer |
| Mature folk | 1 answer |
| Methuselah et al. | 1 answer |
| Most retirees | 1 answer |
| Octogenarians, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Parents and grandparents, to teens | 1 answer |
| Persons getting along in years. | 1 answer |
| Population group. | 1 answer |
| Graybeards | 4 answers |
| Vets. | 7 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OLDSTERS (5)
Besides, the oldsters had been there, drinking since early dawn, and, some of them, since the night before.
All of them were flower-crowned with the luminous, lovely blooms--old and young, slender, mocking-eyed girls, dwarfed youths, mothers with their babes, gnomed oldsters--on they poured, silent for the most part and sullen--a sullenness that held acid bitterness even as their subtle, half-sinister, half-gay malice seemed tempered into little keen-edged flames, oddly, menacingly defiant.
The action elicited a contemptuous laugh from one or two of the new hands, but the oldsters began shifting sundry articles which depended from their belts into positions from which they might be handled at the shortest notice; and the black cat, more wise than any of them, having drunk his fill, stalked solemnly out into the security of the darkness.
Punch's pictures, at the Illustrated News pictures, at all the pictures in the book-shop windows at this Christmas season, as oldsters, we feel a certain pang of envy against the youngsters--they are too well off.
The old man did not leave them long in this shy discomfort, but said, smiling with an old man's mirth: "Dick, my lad, and you, my dear Clara, I rather think that we two oldsters are in your way; for I think you will have plenty to say to each other.
Quotes with OLDSTERS (1)
We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris- ing generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of par- ents to children than by those of children to parents. Who has not been the embarrassed guest at family meals where the father or mother treated their grown-up offspring with an incivility which, offered to any other young people, would simply have termi- nated the acq…
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, WP, WSJ.
Used 16 times in crossword archives (1950–2019).