Crossword-Solution: SCUMS 5 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

We have 9 clues for the answer “SCUMS”

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Covering of some stagnant pools. 1 answer
Dirty layers 1 answer
Features of stagnant waters. 1 answer
Filmy layers on some ponds. 1 answer
Forms a film, as in fermenting. 1 answer
Removes dross 1 answer
Stagnates, as a pond 1 answer
Dirty films? 2 answers
Drosses 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Where is he?’ ‘He is on the outlook for these scums of the earth,’ answered Davies; ‘but it is to no purpose to know when they come, if we are not to stand to our weapons.’ ‘We will use none but those of sense and reason, John.’ ‘And you may just as well cast chaff against the wind, as speak sense and reason to the like of them.’ ‘Well, well, be it so,’ said Joshua; ‘and now, John Davies, I know thou art what the world calls a brave fellow, and I have ever found thee an honest one.
Redgauntlet Sir Walter Scott 2000
Mixing of filter press scums with diffusion juices is said to offer special advantages for the preliminary purification.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 Various 2005
Nor can I express with what dearness of affection he would be received in all those countreys which have suffered by those forrein scums, with what thirst of revenge, with what resolution of fidelity, with what piety, with what tears.
Machiavelli, Volume I Niccolò Machiavelli 2005
They are very common and familiar plants, some of them forming great floating masses upon the surface of every stagnant pond and ditch, being commonly known as "pond scum." The commonest of these pond scums belong to the genus _Spirogyra_, and one of these will illustrate the characteristics of the order.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany Douglas Houghton Campbell 2007
All × 150.] There are various genera of the pond scums, differing in the form of the chloroplasts and also in the position of the spores.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany Douglas Houghton Campbell 2007
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Appears in: LAT, NYT.

Used 8 times in crossword archives (1952–2004).