Crossword-Solution: WAYLAY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Waylay | v. t. | To lie in wait for; to meet or encounter in the way; especially, to watch for the passing of, with a view to seize, rob, or slay; to beset in ambush. |
We have 26 clues for the answer “WAYLAY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| wait for and ambush | 1 answer |
| Stop or interrupt someone | 1 answer |
| Jump from the bushes, say | 1 answer |
| Intercept unexpectedly | 1 answer |
| Attack from ambush | 1 answer |
| Attack from a hiding place | 1 answer |
| Attack en route | 1 answer |
| Ambush (a victim) | 1 answer |
| Accost unexpectedly | 1 answer |
| wait in hiding to attack | 2 answers |
| Catch by surprise | 2 answers |
| Prepare to ambush | 2 answers |
| Lie in wait for | 2 answers |
| Stop and confront someone unexpectedly | 2 answers |
| Confront someone unexpectedly | 2 answers |
| lay for | 3 answers |
| Attack by surprise | 3 answers |
| intercept | 19 answers |
| MAKE off with | 20 answers |
| Confront | 30 answers |
| Ensnare | 31 answers |
| accost | 35 answers |
| Ambush | 42 answers |
| Snare | 47 answers |
| Hold up | 57 answers |
| Storm | 77 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WAYLAY (5)
Have we not seen, or by relation heard, In courts and regal chambers how thou lurk’st, In wood or grove, by mossy fountain-side, In valley or green meadow, to waylay Some beauty rare, Calisto, Clymene, Daphne, or Semele, Antiopa, Or Amymone, Syrinx, many more Too long—then lay’st thy scapes on names adored, Apollo, Neptune, Jupiter, or Pan, 190 Satyr, or Faun, or Silvan? But these haunts Delight not all.
Shall I go waylay him and run my sword through him? That were indeed the quickest way out of the difficulty.” “Nay! Sir Andrew, do not jest! Alas! I have often since last night caught myself wishing for that fiend’s death.
Tarzan could not tell whether the Arabs, satisfied with their losses, had given up the fight, or were waiting farther along the road to waylay them as they proceeded on toward Bou Saada.
His only alternative was to go ahead of his pack and waylay an occasional warrior whom he found alone in the jungle.
She would waylay him in the street and, knowing she had been waiting about for him to come out of the hospital for a couple of hours, he would give her a few charming, friendly words and bolt off with the excuse that he had a business engagement.
Quotes with WAYLAY (3)
She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament: Her eyes as stars of twilight fair; Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Did I Not Say To You Did I not say to you, “Go not there, for I am your friend; in this mirage of annihilation I am the fountain of life?” Even though in anger you depart a hundred thousand years from me, in the end you will come to me, for I am your goal. Did I not say to you, “Be not content with worldly forms, for I am the fashioner of the tabernacle of your contentment?” Did I not say to you, “I am the sea and you are a single fish; go not to dry land, for I am your cryst…
It is the link between satisfaction and redress--the idea that a satisfaction scene, whatever else it is, is a revenge tragedy--that I want to pursue; and the sense that we waylay our desire--make it literally unreal--with pictures of its satisfaction. Pornography, for example, can easily be used, among many other things, to pre-empt the elaboration of erotic fantasy; it can be, in Masud Kahn's words, 'the stealer of dreams'. To put it in old-fashioned Freudian language, fant…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 19 times in crossword archives (1976–2024).