Crossword-Solution: SPANNERS
We have 6 clues for the answer “SPANNERS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Certain wrenches. | 1 answer |
| Items in a Brit's toolkit | 1 answer |
| Tools for turning boltheads. | 1 answer |
| Wrenches in old Blighty | 1 answer |
| Wrenches, in Britain | 1 answer |
| Wrenches | 6 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
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SPANNERS (5)
Chapter XIII Into a Trench Tom cast a hasty glance over the mechanism of the machine before he started to cross the stream by the additional aid of the grippers, or spanners, as he sometimes called this latest device.
The spanners would be pulled out from their sockets on the side of the tank by means of steel cables, which were operated from within.
But I think the spanners will hold." And hold they did! They held, giving way not a fraction of an inch, until the tank was safely across, and then, after a little delay, due to a jamming of one of the recovery cables, the spanners were picked up, slid into the receiving sockets, and the great war engine was ready to proceed again.
Freights might drop out of sight, Seamen’s Unions throw spanners and nuts at certificated masters, or stevedores combine till cargo perished on the dock-head; but the boat of many names came and went, busy, alert, and inconspicuous always.
Fumbling with bulky mitts, handling hammers and spanners, and manipulating nuts and bolts with bare hands, while suspended in a boatswain's chair in the wind, the man up the mast had a difficult and miserable task.
Quotes with SPANNERS (3)
He brings the cigarette butt to his mouth and lights up. He breathes in, and coughs; a rattling helicopter with a broken blade crashing into a herd of trombone playing sheep falling off a cliff into a DIY shop with a discount on spanners.
Fantastic accomplishments seem like something unattainable and everyone doing the extraordinary seems to be unlike you until YOU do something amazing. Then you realize those talented, heroic leaders are not different from you in any important way." Clara Branon, Ph. D., "This Is/Is Not the Way I Thought Things Would Change," Volume III, "The Spanners Series
I'm not a materialistic person at all, but I always want the next thing; I've got a nice toolbox, but I still want another set of spanners.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1952–1986).