Crossword-Solution: UPSTREAM 8 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Upstream adv. Toward the higher part of a stream; against the
current.

We have 16 clues for the answer “UPSTREAM”

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Against the flow 1 answer
Fishes' route. 1 answer
It's a hard way to swim 1 answer
Nearer the source 1 answer
North on the Hudson. 1 answer
Spawning salmon's course 1 answer
Tough way to swim 1 answer
Toward the source 1 answer
Towards the source 1 answer
Where salmon go to spawn 1 answer
in or towards the higher part of a stream 1 answer
Closer to the water’s source 1 answer
River's origin 2 answers
One way to swim 3 answers
ANY ORGANISMS THAT LIVE IN WATER AND ARE UNABLE TO SWIM AGAINST THE CURRENT 11 answers
AGAINST THE CURRENT 12 answers
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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
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eruption
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Sentences with UPSTREAM (5)

Often places have three or more links going; the majority, however, look to "upstream" sites for their sole link to the network.
Zen and the Art of the Internet Brendan P. Kehoe 1992
But which way had she gone since she stopped here? Would she go on down the river, that she might thus bring herself nearer her own Grabritin, or would she have sought to search for us upstream, where she had seen us last? I had hailed Taylor, and sent him across the river to take in Delcarte, that the two might join me and discuss my discovery and our future plans.
The Lost Continent Edgar Rice Burroughs 1994
Another major long-term concern is the additional drain of upstream Euphrates water by Turkey when its vast dam and irrigation projects are completed by mid-decade.
The 1994 CIA World Factbook United States Central Intelligence Agency 2008
Above the noise of the water, as it swirled round the elephant’s legs, Little Toomai could hear more splashing and some trumpeting both upstream and down--great grunts and angry snortings, and all the mist about him seemed to be full of rolling, wavy shadows.
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1995
Then for fifteen or twenty years, these men continued to run their keelboats down-stream, and the steamers did all of the upstream business, the keelboatmen selling their boats in New Orleans, and returning home as deck passengers in the steamers.
Life On The Mississippi, Complete Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2006

Quotes with UPSTREAM (3)

Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.
Amit Ray Walking the Path of Compassion
When I’m writing my own stuff, it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.
Rainbow Rowell Fangirl
I know that life is busy and hard and that there's crushing pressure to just settle down and get a real job and khaki pants and a haircut. But don't. Please don't. Please keep believing that life can be better, brighter, broader because of the art that you make. Please keep demonstrating the courage that it takes to swim upstream in a world that prefers putting away for retirement to putting pen to paper, that chooses practicality over poetry, that values you more for going t…
Shauna Niequist
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal.

Used 11 times in crossword archives (1951–2021).