Crossword-Solution: PARSECS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PARSECS | anagram | ESCARPS, SCARPES, SCRAPES, SPACERS |
We have 14 clues for the answer “PARSECS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Astronomical distances | 1 answer |
| Astronomical measures | 1 answer |
| Astronomical units equal to roughly 3.26 light-years | 1 answer |
| Astronomical units of distance | 1 answer |
| Han Solo claims to have made the Kessel Run in less than 12 of these | 1 answer |
| Interstellar measures | 1 answer |
| Long distances | 1 answer |
| Measures for interstellar space. | 1 answer |
| Space distances | 1 answer |
| They're longer than light-years | 1 answer |
| Units for astronomical distances. | 1 answer |
| Units of distance erroneously mentioned as units of time by Han Solo | 1 answer |
| Units of measurement, 19.2 trillion miles. | 1 answer |
| ASTRONOMICAL event | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
REAA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with PARSECS (5)
SMITH They were four of the greatest minds in the Universe: Two men, two women, lost in an experimental spaceship billions of parsecs from home.
Finally, however, it was revealed by flashes that the torpedo had about a hundred and fifty-five thousand parsecs to go and that it would take two-tenths of a year to make the journey; that the warships which would come in answer to the message were as fast as the torpedo; that he did indeed have in his suit a watch--a device of seven dials, each turning ten times as fast as its successor; and that one turn of the slowest dial measured one year of his time.
The Guesser's knowledge of history was close to nonexistent, but he had heard that the expansion to the stars from Earth--a planet he had never been within a thousand parsecs of--had been accomplished by the expedient of combining volunteers with condemned criminals and shipping them off to newly-found Earth-type planets.
The war had exploded suddenly and simply: a scoutship exploring about 150 parsecs coreward from Irschcha had fallen silent.
Now he was speeding across parsecs of space, praying to himself that the dueling machine had not failed.
Quotes with PARSECS (1)
This is what loss was, what death was: an escape into the luminous wave-forms, into the ineffable speed of the light-years and the parsecs, the eternally receding distances of the cosmos.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, WP.
Used 20 times in crossword archives (1950–2023).