Crossword-Solution: SNUFFS
We have 9 clues for the answer “SNUFFS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Extinguishes a candle | 1 answer |
| Puts out, as a candle | 1 answer |
| __ out (destroys) | 1 answer |
| __ out (extinguishes) | 1 answer |
| Extinguishes, with "out" | 2 answers |
| Extinguishes, as a candle | 3 answers |
| Stamps (out) | 3 answers |
| Extinguishes. | 10 answers |
| Puts out | 18 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CZEEMA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SNUFFS (5)
All the tried and noted riders from the stations near and far Had mustered at the homestead overnight, For the bushmen love hard riding where the wild bush horses are, And the stock-horse snuffs the battle with delight.
Never at unawares did shower annoy: Or, as it rises, the high-soaring cranes Flee to the vales before it, with face Upturned to heaven, the heifer snuffs the gale Through gaping nostrils, or about the meres Shrill-twittering flits the swallow, and the frogs Crouch in the mud and chant their dirge of old.
The coyote is your true water-witch, one who snuffs and paws, snuffs and paws again at the smallest spot of moisture-scented earth until he has freed the blind water from the soil.
But, all this while, he had held the snow-white flower in his hand, and had constantly smelt of it while Circe was speaking; and as he crossed the threshold of the saloon, he took good care to inhale several long and deep snuffs of its fragrance.
There were gargles, salves, snuffs, inhalations, suppositories, fumigations, enemata, poultices and plasters; and they knew the use of opium, hemlock, the copper salts, squills and castor oil.
Quotes with SNUFFS (3)
Yes, I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling, fussy-mussy criticism, which thinks it can improve people by telling them where they are wrong, and results only in putting them in straitjackets of hesitancy and self-consciousness, and weazening all vision and bravery.... I hate it because of all the potentially shining, gentle, gifted people of all ages, that it snuffs out every year. It is a …
Mine, said the stone, mine is the hour. I crush the scissors, such is my power. Stronger than wishes, my power, alone. Mine, said the paper, mine are the wordsthat smother the stonewith imagined birds, reams of them, flownfrom the mind of the shaper. Mine, said the scissors, mine all the knivesgashing through paper’sethereal lives; nothing’s so properas tattering wishes. As stone crushes scissors, as paper snuffs stoneand scissors cut paper, all end alone. So heap up your pap…
Outside the windows, everything is getting darker. First the yellow dies from the light, then the green and pink. The world is a blue version of itself, momentarily, before the blue snuffs out, too and it is all night.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1989–2024).