Crossword-Solution: OPOSSUM 7 letters, 72 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Opossum	n.	Any American marsupial of the genera Didelphys and Chironectes. The common species of the United States is Didelphys Virginiana.

We have 72 clues for the answer “OPOSSUM”

Clue	Answers
Marsupial that can play dead	1 answer
New World marsupial	1 answer
NORTH American marsupial	1 answer
Marsupial you might see as roadkill in the U.S. :((	1 answer
Marsupial with a ratlike tail	1 answer
Marsupial with a grasping tail	1 answer
Marsupial whose name comes from an Algonquian word meaning "white animal"	1 answer
Marsupial that plays dead	1 answer
Marsupial that goes into shock when frightened	1 answer
Nocturnal marsupial of the U.S.	1 answer
Marsupial often pronounced without its first letter	1 answer
Marsupial known for pretending	1 answer
Long tailed animal	1 answer
It plays dead	1 answer
Drawn-out Pogo, e.g.	1 answer
Critter that plays dead	1 answer
Critter playing dead	1 answer
Critter with a pouch	1 answer
North America's only marsupial	1 answer
One skilled in playing dead	1 answer
Only U.S. marsupial	1 answer
Only known North American marsupial	1 answer
Only marsupial native to the Americas	1 answer
Pogo of comics, for one	1 answer
Pogo of the comics, e.g.	1 answer
Pogo of the funnies	1 answer
Pouch bearer	1 answer
Smallish marsupial	1 answer
Thick furred Australian marsupial	1 answer
Western Hemisphere marsupial	1 answer
Word from the Algonquian for "white dog"	1 answer
quica	1 answer
small nocturnal animal with the ability to play dead when threatened by predators	1 answer
Creature whose penis or vagina is bifurcated	1 answer
"Virginia" marsupial	1 answer
AMERICAN aquatic nocturnal marsupial	1 answer
AMERICAN arboreal nocturnal marsupial	1 answer
AMERICAN nocturnal marsupial	1 answer
America's marsupial	1 answer
America's only marsupial	1 answer
American arboreal marsupial	1 answer
American marsupial ... with or without its first letter	1 answer
American marsupial with prehensile tail.	1 answer
American tree animal	1 answer
Animal that plays dead	1 answer
Marsupial American	2 answers
TREE marsupial	2 answers
Pogo, for one	2 answers
Owl prey	2 answers
Small marsupial.	2 answers

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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

ZMEEAC

Hint 3 another clue

eruption

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Sentences with OPOSSUM (5)

Clear the way, Bel!” “Clear it of what?” “Katydids, hoptoads, and other carnivorous animals.” “Now you are making fun of me! Clear it of what?” “A coon that might go shuffling across, an opossum, or a snake going to the lake.

The Harvester Gene Stratton-Porter 1995

The Opossum of the Future One day an Opossum who had gone to sleep hanging from the highest branch of a tree by the tail, awoke and saw a large Snake wound about the limb, between him and the trunk of the tree.

Fantastic Fables Ambrose Bierce 2007

Paul that the gospel had gone into all lands, had for ages declared there could be none; until finally it overtaxed even the theological imagination to conceive of angels, in obedience to the divine command, distributing the various animals over the earth, dropping the megatherium in South America, the archeopteryx in Europe, the ornithorhynchus in Australia, and the opossum in North America.

History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Andrew Dickson White 1996

The result of our day’s hunting was a couple of birds, which Kua-ko, not I, shot, and a small opossum his sharp eyes detected high up a tree lying coiled up on an old nest, over the side of which the animal had incautiously allowed his snaky tail to dangle.

Green Mansions W. H. Hudson 1997

Some few species alone have passed the barrier, and may be considered as wanderers from the south, such as the puma, opossum, kinkajou, and peccari.

The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1997

Quotes with OPOSSUM (3)

I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, show no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy. Doubt meets disbelief and…

Yann Martel Life of Pi

Consider the simple hedgehog, and his neighbor, the opossum... do they waste their energy trying to throw one another into chasms when they face a common enemy, the winter? No!

Ransom Riggs Library of Souls

One of the first lessons life teaches us is that on these occasions of back-chat between the delicately-natured, a man should retire into the offing, curl up in a ball, and imitate the prudent tactics of the opossum, which, when danger is in the air, pretends to be dead, frequently going to the length of hanging out crêpe and instructing its friends to gather round and say what a pity it all is.

P. G. Wodehouse Very Good, Jeeves!

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 52 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).