Crossword-Solution: SPONGES
We have 32 clues for the answer “SPONGES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Counter cleaners | 1 answer |
| Voracious learners | 1 answer |
| U. S. gulf-coast industry. | 1 answer |
| Things for cleaning dishes | 1 answer |
| They're used for mopping up. | 1 answer |
| Super memorizers | 1 answer |
| Porous ocean creatures | 1 answer |
| Porous cleaning items | 1 answer |
| Persistent borrowers | 1 answer |
| Organic absorbers | 1 answer |
| LISSODENDORYX species | 1 answer |
| Kitchen spill absorbers | 1 answer |
| Heavy drinkers, informally | 1 answer |
| Freeloaders in the sink? | 1 answer |
| Eager learners, metaphorically | 1 answer |
| Dish cleaners | 1 answer |
| Arrogant Worms song about spill soakers? | 1 answer |
| Arrogant Worms absorbent song? | 1 answer |
| Absorbent scrubbers | 1 answer |
| Cleaning conveniences | 2 answers |
| Kitchen absorbers | 2 answers |
| Ocean dwellers | 2 answers |
| Marine animals. | 3 answers |
| Moochers | 4 answers |
| Freeloads | 4 answers |
| They hold water | 5 answers |
| Boozehounds | 7 answers |
| Squeezes | 7 answers |
| Freeloaders | 7 answers |
| Mooches | 7 answers |
| Parasites | 12 answers |
| End of the question | 40 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
EECMAZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SPONGES (5)
The Peddler saw through his trick and drove him for the third time to the coast, where he bought a cargo of sponges instead of salt.
These creatures, to judge from the shrivelled remains that have fallen into human hands, were bipeds with flimsy, silicious skeletons (almost like those of the silicious sponges) and feeble musculature, standing about six feet high and having round, erect heads, and large eyes in flinty sockets.
The streams under the furnaces gave out to the sponges of platina a heat which was regularly kept up and distributed.
Sam went on: “Look at my men-at-arms”--the volunteer policemen with bulging hip-pockets, dangling billies and gleaming shields of office--“and at my refreshment tents behind”--where peanuts and pink lemonade were keeping the multitude busy--“and my attendants”--colored gentlemen with sponges and water-buckets--“the armorers and farriers haven't come yet.
She looked about at shelves of red rubber water-bottles, pale yellow sponges, wash-rags with blue borders, hair-brushes of polished cherry backs.
Quotes with SPONGES (3)
Children are like sponges and all they really want to do is latch on to someone that inspires them to learn.
Whenever Elliot Norther’s wife was nervous she baked. With the murder of Harriet Mason, her husband’s close colleague at the Faculty, she had been unable to resist a couple of Victoria sponges. During the frenzied press speculation about the identity of the murderer, a Dundee cake had appeared, followed swiftly by a Battenberg and a Lemon Drizzle. Since news of the Wildencrust murder broke, the kitchen, dining room and study had come to resemble the storerooms of an industria…
Readers may be divided into four classes: I. Sponges, who absorb all they read, and return it nearly in the same state, only a little dirtied. II. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing, and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. III. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. IV. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 40 times in crossword archives (1947–2022).