Crossword-Solution: STALAGMITES
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Features of some caves | 1 answer |
| Nuisance at a POW camp? | 1 answer |
| Formations that rise from cave floors | 1 answer |
| Uppers | 2 answers |
| LURAY Caverns, attraction of the (USA) | 2 answers |
| Cave formations | 3 answers |
| LIMESTONE formation | 7 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
ECZMAE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with STALAGMITES (5)
This shortly brought them to a bewitching spring, whose basin was incrusted with a frostwork of glittering crystals; it was in the midst of a cavern whose walls were supported by many fantastic pillars which had been formed by the joining of great stalactites and stalagmites together, the result of the ceaseless water-drip of centuries.
From this the hot mineral waters drip over into lower basins, of gracefully curved and scalloped outline, the minerals deposited on the lips of the basin forming stalagmites of variegated hue, yielding a brilliant and beautiful effect.
Sometimes the stalagmites took strange forms, presumably where the dropping of the water had not always been on the same spot.
Caves, rich in quaintly formed stalactites and stalagmites, and their recesses filled with metallic salts of the most powerful and diverse natures; break the mountain sides at frequent intervals.
Some of the former were many feet in diameter and extended from ceiling to floor; some of the latter were but a few feet high from the floor; but the formation is going on constantly, and many centuries hence these stalagmites will extend to the ceiling and become complete columns.
Quotes with STALAGMITES (1)
Graham Greene famously said that all writers need a chip of ice in their heart; Cusk can come across as the most beautiful ice palace of stalactites and stalagmites, and some people find her company, albeit by proxy, about as inviting as a long weekend in a walk-in frigidaire.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, WSJ.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2011–2019).