Crossword-Solution: THETIS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| THETIS | anagram | HITEST, THEIST, TISTHE, TITHES |
We have 15 clues for the answer “THETIS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Achilles' mom | 1 answer |
| Mother of Achilles | 1 answer |
| mother Achilles | 1 answer |
| mother of Achilles by Peleus | 1 answer |
| PELEUS, wife of | 2 answers |
| ACHILLES, mother of | 2 answers |
| parent of Achilles | 2 answers |
| Sea goddess | 2 answers |
| Greek sea goddess | 3 answers |
| Nereid | 4 answers |
| Achilles mother | 10 answers |
| Achilles slew | 10 answers |
| ACHILLES AND HECTOR | 11 answers |
| Achilles father | 11 answers |
| Achilles | 14 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with THETIS (5)
Then, I said, my dear friend, let none of the poets tell us that The gods, taking the disguise of strangers from other lands, walk up and down cities in all sorts of forms; and let no one slander Proteus and Thetis, neither let any one, either in tragedy or in any other kind of poetry, introduce Here disguised in the likeness of a priestess asking an alms For the life-giving daughters of Inachus the river of Argos; --let us have no more lies of that sort.
Not to the sun's warmth then upon the shore Do halcyons dear to Thetis ope their wings, Nor filthy swine take thought to toss on high With scattering snout the straw-wisps.
Life, 'tis said, to all men sweet is, Death to all must bitter be; Wherefore thus, oh, mother Thetis! None can baffle Jove's decree? I am ready, I am willing, To resign my stormy life; Weary of this long blood-spilling, Sated with this ceaseless strife.
For Thetis with gret diligence Him hath so tawht and so afaited, That, hou so that it were awaited, With sobre and goodli contenance He scholde his wommanhiede avance, That non the sothe knowe myhte, Bot that in every mannes syhte He scholde seme a pure Maide.
And the silver-shod goddess Thetis was subject to Peleus and brought forth lion-hearted Achilles, the destroyer of men.
Quotes with THETIS (2)
I reached for her, pushing back the fall of hair-it was heavy and thick and smooth to the touch-and tilted her chin so that the moonlight shone on her wet face. We married each other that night, there on a bed of fallen pine needles-even today, the scent of pitch-pine stirs me-with Henry's distant flute for a wedding march and the arching white birch boughs for our basilica. At first, she quivered like an aspen, and I was ashamed at my lack of continence, yet I could not let …
In the story of Thetis and Achilles, it's clear this isn't really a safe environment. She's gone down to the River Styx - the dead are being ferried across in the background. There's something in this mythology that says that if you want invulnerability, if you want immortality, you pay a price.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1969–2021).