Crossword-Solution: TINKERS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TINKERS | anagram | INKSTER, KIRSTEN, KRISTEN, REKNITS, STINKER |
We have 13 clues for the answer “TINKERS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Can't leave well enough alone | 1 answer |
| Fiddles around (with) | 1 answer |
| Fools around with a job | 1 answer |
| Kettle-menders. | 1 answer |
| Menders of metal household utensils. | 1 answer |
| Putters about. | 1 answer |
| Putters around | 1 answer |
| Shakespeare's Snout et al. | 1 answer |
| Some repairmen. | 1 answer |
| Clumsy workers. | 2 answers |
| Messes (with) | 4 answers |
| Fiddles with | 6 answers |
| Fiddles | 7 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TINKERS (5)
Bread went on; “they are no better, no better,”—and she hesitated for a comparison,—“they are no better than tinkers’ wives.
Ducie, man Todd and man Candlish are gone out of your life, and a good riddance! They are fine fellows in their way, but no proper associates for the like of yourself; and do you finally agree to be done with all eccentricity—take up with no more drovers, or tinkers, but enjoy the naitural pleesures for which your age, your wealth, your intelligence, and (if I may be allowed to say it) your appearance so completely fit you.
Now there is no beat will support two tinkers, as you doubtless know; mine was a good one, but it would not support the flying tinker and myself, though if it would have supported twenty it would have been all the same to the flying villain, who'll brook no one but himself; so he presently finds me out, and offers to fight me for the beat.
When I offered the dealer less than he asked for it, he said: "No, rather than sell it for that price, I will tear it apart, and sell the diamonds separately for drill-points to the tinkers who mend dishes.
True it is, that at present there are none amongst the English Gypsies who manufacture horseshoes; all the men, however, are tinkers more or less, and the word Petul-engro is applied to the tinker also, though the proper meaning of it is undoubtedly what I have already stated above.
Quotes with TINKERS (3)
In the years since the disaster, I often think of my friend Arturo Nogueira, and the conversations we had in the mountains about God. Many of my fellow survivors say they felt the personal presence of God in the mountains. He mercifully allowed us to survive, they believe, in answer to our prayers, and they are certain it was His hand that led us home. I deeply respect the faith of my friends, but, to be honest, as hard as I prayed for a miracle in the Andes, I never felt the…
The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books.
Intelligent Design is fraught with even more difficulties, as it suggests God as one who dips His hand in every now and then to bring about the first microbial life, to bring about new forms during the Cambrian explosion, and to finally create humans after 4.55 billion years of earth, while He was doing... what exactly? According to Intelligent Design advocates, God tinkers with animal life every once in a few hundred million years or so, for reasons never made explicitly clear.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1947–2023).