Crossword-Solution: STRAITS 7 letters, 55 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Straits pl. of Strait

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STRAITS anagram ARTISTS, TSARIST

We have 55 clues for the answer “STRAITS”

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Plights 1 answer
Gibraltar, Bass, Torres, etc. 1 answer
In dire -- 1 answer
Juan de Fuca and Magellan 1 answer
Mackinac and Magellan. 1 answer
Magellan and Malacca. 1 answer
Magellan, Bering, etc. 1 answer
Malacca and Magellan 1 answer
Malacca, Torres, etc. 1 answer
Narrow ship passages 1 answer
Narrow stretches of water 1 answer
Narrow waterways 1 answer
Opportunities for shorter bridges 1 answer
Otranto et al. 1 answer
Gibraltar and others. 1 answer
Pressing situation 1 answer
Relatives of channels 1 answer
Rock's Dire -- 1 answer
Some are dire 1 answer
Some shipping routes 1 answer
They can be dire 1 answer
They may be dire 1 answer
They might be dire 1 answer
They're Dire 1 answer
Zone of the ___: 1920–23 1 answer
___ Settlements (former British crown colony) 1 answer
___ Settlements, former British colony 1 answer
___ Settlements: capital, Singapore. 1 answer
Gibraltar and Magellan 1 answer
Gibraltar and Dover 1 answer
Geographical connectors 1 answer
Dover, Magellan, etc. 1 answer
Dover and Gibraltar 1 answer
Dire ___, rock group 1 answer
Difficulties, often dire. 1 answer
Bering et al. 1 answer
Bab el Mandeb, Golden Gate. 1 answer
Gibraltar passage 2 answers
Connecting waterways 2 answers
Emergencies 3 answers
Narrow passageways. 3 answers
Settlements. 3 answers
Dire situations 3 answers
Narrow channels. 3 answers
Narrow passages 6 answers
Inlets 8 answers
DIRE NEWS 10 answers
DIRE DESTINY 10 answers
A PRESSING OR URGENT SITUATION 11 answers
DIFFICULTIES 14 answers
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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.
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Sentences with STRAITS (5)

This sudden kindness at your hands will only make me more watchful, lest under these unexpected favors to myself, you have some private ends to accomplish for your own benefit, and for my master’s injury.” The Man, the Horse, the Ox, and the Dog A HORSE, Ox, and Dog, driven to great straits by the cold, sought shelter and protection from Man.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
Thy ready help we crave, Whether adown Parnassian heights descending, Or o’er the roaring straits thy swift was wending, Save us, O save! (Ant.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
But wherewith to be achieved? Great acts require great means of enterprise; Thou art unknown, unfriended, low of birth, A carpenter thy father known, thyself Bred up in poverty and straits at home, Lost in a desert here and hunger-bit.
Paradise Regained John Milton 1993
Then there came to Terkoz’s rescue the same thing that had put him in these sore straits—a man’s reasoning power.
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
The Torres Straits are nearly thirty-four leagues wide; but they are obstructed by an innumerable quantity of islands, islets, breakers, and rocks, that make its navigation almost impracticable; so that Captain Nemo took all needful precautions to cross them.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne 1994

Quotes with STRAITS (3)

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think; ’T is strange, the shortest letter which man uses Instead of speech, may form a lasting link Of ages; to what straits old Time reduces Frail man, when paper — even a rag like this, Survives himself, his tomb, and all that’s his.
George Gordon Byron Don Juan
Stephenson had large wrought-iron boiler plates available and he also had the courage of his calculations... The idea found its best-known expression in the Menai railway bridge opened in 1850. Stephenson's beams, which weighed 1,500 tons each, were built beside the Straits and were floated into position between the towers on rafts across a swirling tide. They were raised rather over a hundred feet up the towers by successive lifts with primitive hydraulic jacks. All this was…
J.E. Gordon The New Science of Strong Materials or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor
A positive needs a negative to complete its cycle, as the Moon needs an embodiment of itself, the Sun, to complete the cycle of its illusory essence, the Earth. Now if the earth is in dire straits, is bombing the moon to discover whether water is ‘perceived’ in the natural stance of humans an intelligent move?
AainaA-Ridtz
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 53 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).