Crossword-Solution: POSSUM 6 letters, 52 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Possum n. An opossum.

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POSSUM anagram MOPSUS

We have 52 clues for the answer “POSSUM”

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One might fake its death 1 answer
Animal that might play dead 1 answer
Bare-tailed critter 1 answer
Certain marsupial 1 answer
Critter nickname for country legend George Jones 1 answer
Dead player? 1 answer
Death-feigning critter 1 answer
Eliot nickname 1 answer
FOREST marsupial 1 answer
GAME of feigning death 1 answer
It might play dead 1 answer
Marsupial, familiarly 1 answer
Nocturnal arboreal marsupial 1 answer
American marsupial, commonly 1 answer
Play __: feign sleep 1 answer
Play ___ (dissemble) 1 answer
Play ___ (feign death) 1 answer
Play ___ (feign ignorance). 1 answer
Play ___ (feign unconsciousness) 1 answer
Play ___ (pretend to be dead) 1 answer
Pogo is one 1 answer
Pogo of the comics, for one 1 answer
Pretend to be asleep (with "play") 1 answer
Pretend to be asleep or dead (with "play") 1 answer
Something animals play 1 answer
What Pogo plays 1 answer
American marsupial that plays dead 1 answer
AUSTRALIAN forest marsupial 1 answer
A game of life or death. 1 answer
"Watch the Girl Destroy Me" ___ Dixon 1 answer
"Playing" critter 1 answer
Tree-dwelling marsupial 2 answers
Woods critter 2 answers
Pogo, for one 2 answers
Nocturnal creature 2 answers
Roo's friend 2 answers
TREE marsupial 2 answers
Australian marsupial that lives on trees 3 answers
phalanger 3 answers
Nocturnal marsupial 3 answers
Pogo, e.g. 3 answers
AUSTRALIAN nocturnal animal 4 answers
AUSTRALIAN phalanger 4 answers
Opossum 6 answers
nocturnal animal 6 answers
American marsupial 11 answers
AUSTRALIAN pouched mammal 16 answers
marsupial 24 answers
AUSTRALIAN animal 27 answers
AUSTRALIAN mammal 27 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.
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Sentences with POSSUM (5)

After that he follows me to the cabin, and sees Polly Ann and Tom and the children on the floor poking a ‘possum.
The Crossing Winston Churchill 1995
Those tangy frosty afternoons, when he had been forced to clean barns and plow while the other boys went rabbit and possum hunting or nutting, were afternoons whose loss he still mourned.
Dust Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius 1997
Dear Peter from my threshold went, One morning in the body: He "dropped" me, to oblige a gent-- A gent with spear and waddy! He shelved me for a boomerang-- We never had a quarrel; And, if a moral here doth hang, Why let it hang--the moral! My mournful tale its course has run-- My Pete, when last I spied him, Was eating 'possum underdone: He had his gin beside him.
The Poems of Henry Kendall Henry Kendall 1997
Reddy Fox Has a Visitor Hardly was old Granny Fox out of sight on her way to hunt for the chicken she had left on the hill, when Unc' Billy Possum came strolling along the Lone Little Path.
The Adventures of Reddy Fox Thornton W. Burgess 1999
When I took the jay carefully from the trap he played possum, lying limp in my hand till my grip relaxed, when he flew to a branch over my head, squalling and upbraiding me for having anything to do with such abominable inventions.
Secret of the Woods William J. Long 1999

Quotes with POSSUM (3)

I was a little excited but mostly blorft. "Blorft" is an adjective I just made up that means 'Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.' I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.
Tina Fey Bossypants
Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a 'possum stuck in your collar?
Bill Watterson Calvin and Hobbes
No, officer, I have no idea why I'm wearing this possum costume. I called you what? OH. My bad."-Nastasya
Cate Tiernan Darkness Falls
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 53 times in crossword archives (1961–2023).