Crossword-Solution: TIRESIAS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TIRESIAS | anagram | SATIRISE |
We have 6 clues for the answer “TIRESIAS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Blind Theban prophet | 1 answer |
| Blind prophet who underwent a seven-year sex change in Greek mythology | 1 answer |
| Figure who Hera turned into a woman for hitting copulating snakes with a stick | 1 answer |
| Prophet of Thebes, struck blind by Athena when he accidentally saw her bathing | 1 answer |
| A DETONATOR THAT EXPLODES WHEN STRUCK | 10 answers |
| ACCIDENTALLY MEET | 10 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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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
MZCAEE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TIRESIAS (5)
Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Cleer Spring, or shadie Grove, or Sunnie Hill, Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief Thee _Sion_ and the flowrie Brooks beneath That wash thy hallowd feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit: nor somtimes forget Those other two equal’d with me in Fate, So were I equal’d with them in renown, Blind _Thamyris_ and blind _Maeonides_, And _Tiresias_ and _Phineus_ Prophets old.
And again: O heavens! verily in the house of Hades there is soul and ghostly form but no mind at all! Again of Tiresias:-- [To him even after death did Persephone grant mind,] that he alone should be wise; but the other souls are flitting shades.
And upon this Thei mihten noght acorde in on, And toke a jugge therupon, Which cleped is Tiresias, And bede him demen in the cas; 750 And he withoute avisement Ayein Juno yaf juggement.
And if there be such an one, he may be said to be among the living what Homer says that Tiresias was among the dead, 'he alone has understanding; but the rest are flitting shades'; and he and his virtue in like manner will be a reality among shadows.
Where couldst thou words of such a compass find? Whence furnish such a vast expence of mind? Just Heav'n thee like Tiresias to requite Rewards with Prophesie thy loss of sight.
Quotes with TIRESIAS (1)
... Have you considered that maybe this is the birth of a new world, that what happens next is a golden opportunity to change the nature of man in a fundamental way?”“Those are brave words, Tiresias.”“New parents can’t afford to be anything but brave, Eddie.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, New Yorker, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2008–2019).