Crossword-Solution: PYRITES
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pyrites | pl. | of Pyrite |
| Pyrites | n. | A name given to a number of metallic minerals, sulphides of iron, copper, cobalt, nickel, and tin, of a white or yellowish color. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “PYRITES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Brass-yellow minerals | 1 answer |
| Minerals known as "fool's gold" | 1 answer |
| Minerals that look like gold | 1 answer |
| Natural metallic sulfide minerals | 1 answer |
| Sulfide-containing group | 1 answer |
| Fool's gold, e.g. | 3 answers |
| Fool's gold? | 5 answers |
| CHANGES SIMPLE MINERALS INTO COMPLEX MINERALS | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PYRITES (5)
Straight from the ocean's depths rose towering cliffs, shot with brown and blues and greens--withered moss and lichen and the verdigris of copper, and everywhere the rusty ocher of iron pyrites.
The Chilian miners were so convinced that copper pyrites contained not a particle of copper, that they laughed at the Englishmen for their ignorance, who laughed in turn, and bought their richest veins for a few dollars.
You see them slugs I had made myself outer brass filings and iron pyrites, and used to slap 'em down on the boys for a bluff in a game of draw poker.
Don't you remember, boys, the night we put up that little sell on him and made him believe we'd struck it rich in the bank of the creek, and got him so conceited, he wanted to go off and settle all our debts at once?” “And how I came bustin' into the cabin with a pan full of iron pyrites and black sand,” chuckled Union Mills, continuing the reminiscences, “and how them big gray eyes of his nearly bulged out of his head.
Much excitement in the neighborhood in consequence [Idiots! Iron pyrites!] A hen at Four Corners had just laid an egg measuring 7 by 8 inches.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chicago Tribune, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1985–2012).