Crossword-Solution: POSTERNS
We have 5 clues for the answer “POSTERNS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Back gates | 1 answer |
| Old-time back doors. | 1 answer |
| Rear gates of castles | 1 answer |
| Side entrances | 1 answer |
| BACK DOORS | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with POSTERNS (5)
All paths, in good time, led to the garden gate, its posterns now long whitened by blowing wind and sand.
Your followers I will whisper to the business, And will by twos and threes, at several posterns, Clear them o’ th’ city.
The wall was also broken at intervals by gates, some of which were posterns, either arched or covered in by flat stones,[653] while others were of larger dimensions, and were protected, on one side or on both, by bastions.
The jagged top and spurs of San Jacinto Mountain shone like the turrets and posterns of a citadel built of rubies.
The city gates are at this day eight, besides posterns, viz.: 1, Aldgate; 2, Bishopsgate; 3, Moorgate; 4, Cripplegate; 5, Aldersgate; 6, Newgate; 7, Ludgate; and, 8, The Bridgegate.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WSJ.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1960–1998).