Crossword-Solution: UPPERHAND 9 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

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Advantage ... or what the answer to each starred clue has? 1 answer
Advantageous position, and what each answer to a starred clue literally has 1 answer
Dominating position. 1 answer
Most powerful position. 1 answer
What one in control has 1 answer
Controlling position 2 answers
It's an advantage 2 answers
Advantage, so to speak 3 answers
Position of control 4 answers
CONTROL OR INFLUENCE SKILLFULLY, USUALLY TO ONE'S ADVANTAGE 10 answers
controlling influence 10 answers
Advantageous position 11 answers
Edge 67 answers
Mastery. 79 answers
Advan-tage 87 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with UPPERHAND (5)

Then a return of cheerful tolerance,--a feeling, that, if the Deity could bear with rats and sharpers, he could; with a confident trust, that, in the long run, terriers and honest men would have the upperhand, and a grateful consciousness that he had been sent just at the right time to come between a patient victim and the master who held her in peonage.
Elsie Venner Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 2006
She'd got the upperhand of her father now; but if he'd only taken hold of her in season! There are people who think that everything may be done, if the doer, be he educator or physician, be only called “in season.” No doubt,--but in season would often be a hundred or two years before the child was born; and people never send so early as that.
Elsie Venner Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 2006
She'd got the upperhand of her father now; but if he'd only taken hold of her in season! There are people who think that everything may be done, if the doer, be he educator or physician, be only called "in season." No doubt,--but in season would often be a hundred or two years before the child was born; and people never send so early as that.
The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist) 2004
Since yesterday she had felt like one who walks along the edge of a precipice, and whose enemy is close at his heels; and the sense of freedom from the ever threatening danger, soon got the upperhand of her maternal grief.
Uarda, Volume 6. Georg Ebers 2004
But when he saw Cousin Hans’s disconcerted expression, his good-nature got the upperhand, and he laughed and said: “No, my dear sir! there you’re quite mistaken.
Tales of Two Countries Alexander Kielland 2005
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal.

Used 13 times in crossword archives (1958–2023).