Crossword-Solution: RELICT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Relict | n. | A woman whose husband is dead; a widow. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “RELICT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Belonging to a nearly extinct class. | 1 answer |
| Biological survivor | 1 answer |
| Ecological survivor | 1 answer |
| Living remnant | 1 answer |
| Of a nearly extinct class. | 1 answer |
| Remnant or survivor | 1 answer |
| Surviving species of an otherwise extinct group | 1 answer |
| geological feature that is a remnant of a pre-existing formation after other parts have disappeared | 1 answer |
| widower | 1 answer |
| Remnant of the past | 2 answers |
| survivor | 8 answers |
| widow | 20 answers |
| residual | 27 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TRAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RELICT (5)
Mullet, relict of the late Sylvester Mullet, and mother of Toby and a bunch of daughters, assailed Clovis Sangrail on the outskirts of the village with a breathless catalogue of local happenings.
Elisha Gurrey, relict of Deacon Gurrey the dealer in hay and grain, was a pointed-nosed, simpering woman with iron-gray hair drawn so tight that it resembled a soiled handkerchief covering her head.
Bardell--the relict and sole executrix of a deceased custom-house officer--was a comely woman of bustling manners and agreeable appearance, with a natural genius for cooking, improved by study and long practice, into an exquisite talent.
After three thousand years, Caligorant drew The sacred relict from the palace divine: Whence with the net the impious thief returned, Who robbed the temple and the city burned, LIX He fixed it here, beneath the sandy plain, In mode, that all the travellers whom he chased Ran into it, and the engine was with pain Touched, ere it arms, and feet, and neck embraced.
This Eadbald renounced his baptism, and lived in a heathen manner; so that he took to wife the relict of his father.
Quotes with RELICT (2)
A far cicada rings high and clear over the river’s heavy wash. Morning glory, a lone dandelion, cassia, orchids. So far from the nearest sea, I am taken aback by the sight of a purple land crab, like a relict of the ancient days when the Indian subcontinent, adrift on the earth’s mantle, moved northward to collide with the Asian landmass, driving these marine rocks, inch by inch, five miles into the skies. The rise of the Himalaya, begun in the Eocene, some fifty million year…
The coast redwood is a so-called relict species. It is a tiny remnant of a life form that once spread in splendor and power across the face of nature. The redwood has settled down in California to live near the sea, the way many retired people do.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1953–2016).