Crossword-Solution: ZITHER 6 letters, 33 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

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Zither n. An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has
from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board,
which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both
hands in playing on it. [Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped
cittern, or cithern.]

We have 33 clues for the answer “ZITHER”

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Instrument laid flat during play 1 answer
Anton Karas's instrument 1 answer
Boxed stringed instrument 1 answer
Cithern kin 1 answer
Dulcimer kin 1 answer
Dulcimer, e.g. 1 answer
End-of-dictionary instrument 1 answer
Flat stringed instrument 1 answer
Harp's little brother 1 answer
AUTOHARP 1 answer
Instrument near the end of the dictionary 1 answer
Instrument sometimes played in one's lap 1 answer
Instrument used to score "The Third Man" 1 answer
Instrument with 30+ strings 1 answer
Stringed instrument heard in "The Third Man" 1 answer
Stringed instrument played with a plectrum. 1 answer
zitter 1 answer
"The Third Man" sound 1 answer
"The Third Man" instrument 1 answer
Autoharp, e.g. 2 answers
Japanese guitar 2 answers
Dulcimer's kin 3 answers
Instrument played with a plectrum 4 answers
Strummed instrument 6 answers
Old stringed instrument 7 answers
Plucked instrument 8 answers
CHEKHOV, ANTON 10 answers
BRUCKNER, ANTON 10 answers
ANTON IN ENGLISH 11 answers
A MUSICAL STRINGED INSTRUMENT WITH STRINGS STRETCHED OVER A FLAT SOUNDING BOARD 11 answers
Boxed in 12 answers
Stringed instrument 23 answers
musical instrument 68 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
MEEAZC
Hint 3 another clue
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Accordingly, having armed himself with a native zither, on which, being an adept with the light guitar, he had easily learned to strum, he proceeded at midnight—the fashionable hour for this sort of caterwauling—to make night hideous with his amorous yells.
Allan Quatermain H. Rider Haggard 1996
You know when I left you? Well, I was shown straight into Sorais’ private chamber, and a wonderful place it is; and there she sat, quite alone, upon a silken couch at the end of the room, playing gently upon that zither of hers.
Allan Quatermain H. Rider Haggard 1996
When Boehm was in good-humor he would play his zither now and then, and amuse us by singing pretty German songs.
Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin 2006
Shall we have no little lyrics because Homer and Dante have written epics? And because we have heard the great organ at Freiburg, shall the sound of Kathi's zither in the alpine hut please us no more? Even those who have greatness thrust upon them will do well to lay the burden down now and then, and congratulate themselves that they are not altogether answerable for the conduct of the universe, or at least not all the time.
Little Rivers Henry van Dyke 2006
Krumm has got the Iron Cross.” “That won’t make his legs any the straighter.” “He was at Weissenburg.” “I suppose he got that cast in the eye there.” “He can play the zither in a way that would astonish you.
Stories By English Authors: Germany Various 2006
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 27 times in crossword archives (1954–2024).