Crossword-Solution: WRECKER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Wrecker | n. | One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like. |
| Wrecker | n. | One who searches fro, or works upon, the wrecks of vessels, etc. Specifically: (a) One who visits a wreck for the purpose of plunder. (b) One who is employed in saving property or lives from a wrecked vessel, or in saving the vessel; as, the wreckers of Key West. |
| Wrecker | n. | A vessel employed by wreckers. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “WRECKER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Salvage car. | 1 answer |
| Tow provider | 1 answer |
| Tow truck | 1 answer |
| formerly, person who lured ships onto the rocks in order to plunder them | 1 answer |
| someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job | 1 answer |
| Deliberate destroyer | 2 answers |
| Saboteur | 3 answers |
| MEDDLESOME person | 11 answers |
| Vandal | 15 answers |
| "SPOILER ___!" | 28 answers |
| bungler | 32 answers |
| TROUBLESOME person | 33 answers |
| firebrand | 45 answers |
| destroyer | 49 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WRECKER (5)
Poor John!"' There is a world of abrupt, homely talk like this to be found in the speech of Captain Nares and of Jim Pinkerton in _The Wrecker_; and a wealth of Scottish dialect, similar in effect, in _Kidnapped_, _Catriona_, and many other stories.
The main situation in _The Wrecker_ is a splendid product of romantic aspiration, but the structure of the story is incoherent and ineffective, so that some of the best passages in the book--the scenes in Paris, for instance--have no business there at all.
Difficulties of this kind he had already handled in a lighter vein once or twice in fiction—as for instance in the _Story of a Lie_ and in _The Wrecker_—before he grappled with them in the acute and tragic phase in which they occur in the present story.
The _Wrecker_ is finished, that is the best of my news; it goes by this mail to Scribner’s; and I honestly think it a good yarn on the whole and of its measly kind.
And if you consider that I sent by last mail the end of the _Wrecker_, coming on for seventy or eighty pages, and the mail before that the entire Tale of the _Beach of Falesá_, I do not think I can be accused of idleness.
Quotes with WRECKER (3)
Why aren't you in school? I see you every day wandering around.""Oh, they don't miss me," she said. "I'm antisocial, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it? Social to me means talking to you about things like this." She rattled some chestnuts that had fallen off the tree in the front yard. "Or talking about how strange the world is. Being with people is nice. But I don't think it's social to get a …
What do you call the Hrothgar-wrecker when Hrothgar has been wrecked?
Alex cornered her right before she was going to make an appointment at the nurse’s station to see him. “Bree, I’m going to be referring you to Carlo from now on,” Alex informed her. “I think in light of recent events it would be a conflict of interest for me to continue to be your doctor.” “Is that right?” Bree asked leaning her elbow on the counter and raising an eyebrow. “Yes, I wouldn’t feel comfortable about it considering what you did to Carrie.” “Aw, that’s nice,” Bree …
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Appears in: LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1954–2024).