Crossword-Solution: POTBOILERS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| POTBOILERS | anagram | POSTBOILER |
We have 5 clues for the answer “POTBOILERS”
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| Hacks products | 1 answer |
| Literary hacks | 1 answer |
| Literary quickies | 1 answer |
| Cheap novels | 2 answers |
| Dime novels | 3 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
EAAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with POTBOILERS (5)
There are portions of the sovereign people who spend most of their spare time and spare money on motoring and comparing motor cars, on bridge-whist and post-mortems, on moving-pictures and potboilers, talking always to the same people with minute variations on the same old themes.
She is reminded of a college friend of hers, who told her that she was not going to allow her literary husband to write unworthy potboilers for the sake of earning a living.
What he has done have been 'potboilers.' He forgot that he was an artist, and wanted only to be a millionaire.
Tid._ (_in displeased surprise._) Then you know my cook _too_? An _artist_? and she seems such a _respectable_ person! Pray what sort of pictures does she paint? _Lord Strath._ Pictures? Oh, really I don't know--potboilers probably.
His potboilers were good and honest books; his brief history on the Thirty Years' War has received the praise of scholars.
Quotes with POTBOILERS (2)
There are portions of the sovereign people who spend most of their spare time and spare money on motoring and comparing motor cars, on bridge-whist and post-mortems, on moving pictures and potboilers, talking always to the same people with minute variations on the same old themes. They cannot really be said to suffer from censorship, or secrecy, the high cost or the difficulty of communication. They suffer from anemia, from lack of appetite and curiosity for the human scene. …
When I was a boy in the late 1950s, the public library refused to stock books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They were regarded as vulgar, ill-written potboilers.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1968–2007).