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Crossword-Solution: TIMBUKTU 8 letters, 37 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

We have 37 clues for the answer “TIMBUKTU”

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Destination in Mali 1 answer
Town in Mali, near the Niger 1 answer
Town in Mali used as a metaphor for a distant place 1 answer
Tourist town in Mali 1 answer
Mythical faraway place in Africa 1 answer
Middle of nowhere, metaphorically 1 answer
Malian hub 1 answer
Mali city 1 answer
Islamic caravan center of Africa 1 answer
Historic city near the Niger River 1 answer
Faraway city 1 answer
Far-off place, figuratively 1 answer
Far-off place 1 answer
Fabled Saharan city 1 answer
Extremely distant place, in metaphor 1 answer
Colloquially, a distant place 1 answer
City on the Sahara Desert 1 answer
City often used as a metaphor for the middle of nowhere, despite being in the middle of Mali 1 answer
City in central Mali 1 answer
City in Mali that's home to the University of Sankore 1 answer
Any faraway place 1 answer
Any distant or outlandish place 1 answer
Ancient city in Mali 1 answer
City south of the Sahara. 1 answer
A remote place, Mali town 1 answer
LIBYAN caravan route 2 answers
Far-away place. 2 answers
TRIPOLI caravan route (Libya) 2 answers
NORTHWEST African trading center/centre 2 answers
NORTHWEST African caravan route 2 answers
Sudanese town 2 answers
AFRICAN caravan route center/centre 2 answers
AFRICAN trading center/centre 2 answers
Symbol of remoteness 3 answers
Nowheresville 5 answers
CITY ON THE NIGER 10 answers
A CITY IN CENTRAL MALI NEAR THE NIGER RIVER 10 answers
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
GATAE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with TIMBUKTU (5)

These scholars enhanced the university of Timbuktu which was already widely known as a center of Islamic studies.
The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008
Twenty palm-thatched, beehive huts sheltered its black population, while a half-dozen goat skin tents in the center of the clearing housed the score of Arabs who found shelter here while, by trading and raiding, they collected the cargoes which their ships of the desert bore northward twice each year to the market of Timbuktu.
The Son of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
There are good people like that, only too happy to serve science with resounding appellations that might come from Timbuktu; they cannot name you a midge without striking terror into you.
The Life of the Fly J. Henri Fabre 2002
Nothing could be seen of the Trans-Saharan Railway constructing on the plans of Duponchel—a long ribbon of iron destined to bind together Algiers and Timbuktu by way of Laghouat and Gardaia, and destined eventually to run down into the Gulf of Guinea.
Robur the Conqueror Jules Verne 2001
Prison for prison, we would rather be in Timbuktu than on the “Albatross.”” “That is a matter of taste.” answered the engineer.
Robur the Conqueror Jules Verne 2001

Quotes with TIMBUKTU (3)

I go, I go away, I walk, I wander, and everywhere I go I bear my shell with me, I remain at home in my room, among my books, I do not approach an inch nearer to Marrakech or Timbuktu. Even if I took a train, a boat, or a motor-bus, if I went to Morocco for my holiday, if I suddenly arrived at Marrakech, I should be always in my room, at home. And if I walked in the squares and in the sooks, if I gripped an Arab's shoulder, to feel Marrakech in his person - well, that Arab wou…
Jean-Paul Sartre The Age of Reason
After I wrapped 'Sons of Anarchy,' I traveled by myself for ten weeks. I started in Jordan and finished in Mali, in Timbuktu.
Henry Rollins
For many people, Timbuktu has long represented the essence of remoteness: a mythical, faraway place located on the boundaries of our collective consciousness. But like many of the myths associated with colonialism, the reality is very different.
Antonio Guterres
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 22 times in crossword archives (1962–2024).