Crossword-Solution: ORPHAN 6 letters, 90 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Orphan n. A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes,
also, a child who has but one parent living.
Orphan a. Bereaved of parents, or (sometimes) of one parent.
Orphan v. t. To cause to become an orphan; to deprive of parents.

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ORPHAN anagram HARPON

We have 90 clues for the answer “ORPHAN”

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Dickens's Oliver Twist or Kipling's Mowgli 1 answer
Little Oliver Twist, e.g. 1 answer
Little Annie, for instance. 1 answer
Lacking a commercial sponsor 1 answer
James of "James and the Giant Peach," for one 1 answer
Harry Potter or Anne Shirley, say 1 answer
Harold Gray's Annie, for one 1 answer
Foster-home dweller, maybe 1 answer
Foster child, maybe 1 answer
First line of a paragraph that appears alone at the bottom of a column 1 answer
Dickens's Pip, e.g. 1 answer
Many an adoptee 1 answer
Deserted animal 1 answer
Deprived one. 1 answer
Comics' Annie, for one 1 answer
Child with no parents 1 answer
Child of war, frequently 1 answer
Child like Annie 1 answer
Bruce Wayne, e.g. 1 answer
Broadway's Annie, for one 1 answer
Book printer's no-no 1 answer
Unfunded, as a research project 1 answer
Oliver or Annie? 1 answer
parentless 1 answer
one who has lost both parents 1 answer
little annie was one 1 answer
deprive of parents 1 answer
a young animal without a mother 1 answer
Widow's counterpart, in typesetting 1 answer
Ward of the state, maybe 1 answer
Warbucks' Annie, e.g. 1 answer
Unmatched sock, informally 1 answer
Bruce Wayne or Harry Potter, e.g. 1 answer
Tom Sawyer, e.g. 1 answer
Tom Sawyer or Oliver Twist 1 answer
TV's Webster, for one 1 answer
Single word on the last line of a paragraph, say 1 answer
Parentless kid 1 answer
Parentless child 1 answer
PERSON bereft of previous protection/advantages (fig.) 1 answer
One leading a hard-knock life, perhaps 1 answer
Oliver Warbucks' "Annie." 1 answer
Batman or Harry Potter, e.g. 1 answer
"Frozen" 's Elsa or Anna, for two 1 answer
"Little __ Annie" 1 answer
"___ Black" (BBC America show featuring multiple clones) 1 answer
"___ Black" (sci-fi series) 1 answer
Adjective for rare medical conditions for which it is not commercially viable to produce treatments 1 answer
Anne of Green Gables or Annie 1 answer
Annie Warbucks, formerly 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ORPHAN (5)

You must be under the impression that I’m one of these damned New England sharks that get their pound of flesh off the widow and orphan.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
Going into the Market Place he accosted in a feigned voice a maiden, the orphan daughter of a noble Polygon, whose affection in former days he had sought in vain; and by a series of deceptions—aided, on the one side, by a string of lucky accidents too long to relate, and, on the other, by an almost inconceivable fatuity and neglect of ordinary precautions on the part of the relations of the bride—he succeeded in consummating the marriage.
Flatland Edwin A. Abbott 1994
Therefore when the President said (else had his own head quivered on his shoulders), that the good physician of the Republic would deserve better still of the Republic by rooting out an obnoxious family of Aristocrats, and would doubtless feel a sacred glow and joy in making his daughter a widow and her child an orphan, there was wild excitement, patriotic fervour, not a touch of human sympathy.
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994
Even the most hardened little orphan felt sympathy for an erring sister who was summoned to the office to face an annoyed matron; and Tommy liked Jerusha even if she did sometimes jerk him by the arm and nearly scrub his nose off.
Daddy-Long-Legs Jean Webster 2008
This lady was one of my nearest relations, an orphan from her infancy, and under the guardianship of my father.
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 1994

Quotes with ORPHAN (3)

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
John Berger
and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.
Khaled Hosseini
It's a good thing you're an aging orphan," he murmured, gently pushing the hair away from her face. "I don't have to wait around to get anyone's permission.""Permission for what, you rat bastard?" she said. "Such language, dragon. I'm afraid you're going to have to marry me.
Anne Stuart The Devil's Waltz
Where this answer appears

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

Used 105 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).