Crossword-Solution: QUANDARY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Quandary | n. | A state of difficulty or perplexity; doubt; uncertainty. |
| Quandary | v. t. | To bring into a state of uncertainty, perplexity, or difficulty. |
We have 87 clues for the answer “QUANDARY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| difficult situation or dilemma | 1 answer |
| A state of uncertainty | 1 answer |
| State of uncertainty | 2 answers |
| Condition of difficulty | 4 answers |
| Difficult situation | 24 answers |
| Quagmire | 30 answers |
| Queasiness | 35 answers |
| FALSE position | 35 answers |
| Corner | 35 answers |
| -- impasse | 38 answers |
| Twinge | 39 answers |
| reluctance | 41 answers |
| dissimilitude | 45 answers |
| Qualm | 45 answers |
| antilogy | 46 answers |
| call in question | 46 answers |
| scruple | 46 answers |
| imparity | 46 answers |
| unlikeness | 46 answers |
| murk | 47 answers |
| ramification | 47 answers |
| haziness | 47 answers |
| discordance | 48 answers |
| murkiness | 48 answers |
| duskiness | 48 answers |
| oxymoron | 48 answers |
| disproportion | 49 answers |
| Riddle | 49 answers |
| Conundrum | 49 answers |
| anachronism | 50 answers |
| Suspicion | 50 answers |
| blackness | 50 answers |
| cabalism | 50 answers |
| involvement | 51 answers |
| Unconsciousness | 52 answers |
| ABSTRUSENESS | 54 answers |
| Cloudiness | 55 answers |
| twilight | 55 answers |
| BLACKOUT ___ | 56 answers |
| Indecision | 57 answers |
| seizure | 58 answers |
| muddledness | 58 answers |
| Wonderment | 58 answers |
| befuddlement | 58 answers |
| muddlement | 59 answers |
| gloominess | 59 answers |
| Obfuscation | 59 answers |
| PERPLEXED state | 59 answers |
| Scrape | 59 answers |
| Pickle | 59 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with QUANDARY (5)
The afternoon was drawing to a close, and Clayton, disheartened and discouraged, was in a terrible quandary as to the proper course to pursue; whether to keep on in search of Professor Porter, at the almost certain risk of his own death in the jungle by night, or to return to the cabin where he might at least serve to protect Jane from the perils which confronted her on all sides.
There is scarce a house in all my books where I have not seemed to see you a thousand times, bending over the fireplace or winding up the clock.’ ‘And yet you used to be in such a quandary because you knew nobody you could make your women-folk out of! Do you mind that, and how we both laughed at the notion of your having to make them out of me?’ ‘I remember.’ ‘And now you’ve gone back to my father’s time.
Weeks had listened politely, with smiling modesty, till Hayward finished; then he asked one or two insidious questions, so innocent in appearance that Hayward, not seeing into what a quandary they led him, answered blandly; Weeks made a courteous objection, then a correction of fact, after that a quotation from some little known Latin commentator, then a reference to a German authority; and the fact was disclosed that he was a scholar.
But never in my life have I had such a reception, and from my own first cousin, too.” I was in a quandary, so totally unforeseen was this situation.
You see, having said that if Meg married ‘that Brooke’ she shouldn’t have a cent of her money, Aunt March was rather in a quandary when time had appeased her wrath and made her repent her vow.
Quotes with QUANDARY (3)
While I have the floor, here's a question that's been bothering me for some time. Why do so few writers of heroic or epic fantasy ever deal with the fundamental quandary of their novels . . . that so many of them take place in cultures that are rigid, hierarchical, stratified, and in essence oppressive? What is so appealing about feudalism, that so many free citizens of an educated commonwealth like ours love reading about and picturing life under hereditary lords?, such as f…
NO MUSE IS GOOD MUSETo be an Artist you need talent, as well as a wifewho washes the socks and the children, and returns phone calls and library books and types. In other words, the reason there are so many more Men Geniuses than Women Geniuses is not Genius. It is because Hemingway never joined the P.T.A.And Arthur Rubinstein ignored Halloween. Do you think Portnoy's creator sits through children's theatermatinees--on Saturdays? Or that Norman Mailer faced 'driver's ed' fail…
While I have the floor, here's a question that's been bothering me for some time. Why do so few writers of heroic or epic fantasy ever deal with the fundamental quandary of their novels . . . that so many of them take place in cultures that are rigid, hierarchical, stratified, and in essence oppressive? What is so appealing about feudalism, that so many free citizens of an educated commonwealth like ours love reading about and picturing life under hereditary
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1994–2024).