Crossword clues for crannies
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cranny \Cran"ny\ (kr[a^]n"n[y^]), n.; pl. Crannies (-n[i^]z).
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A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
In a firm building, the cavities ought not to be filled with rubbish, but with brick or stone fitted to the crannies.
--Dryden.He peeped into every cranny.
--Arbuthnot. (Glass Making) A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of cranny English)
Usage examples of "crannies".
The Cridi adored symphonies, folk music, stage musicals, operetta, plainchant, and whatever else she could winkle out of the nooks and crannies of her memory.
Fardles, despite what they hauled out of cabinets and crannies on the Albatross, we're still only alleged Treaty breakers, not actual criminals.
When she had cleared the accessible portions of the panel, she shook out Portegin's kit to find something that could reach into crannies and corners.
Heartened by the solicitous nature of the Coonies and by Rascal's steadfast loyalty, she took to exploring the nooks and crannies of Callisto Station escorted only by the felines.
He had to wedge himself into the crack, searching for protrusions and crannies he could use to haul himself up another body length.
Kynes had never been able to see the actual trail in the rocks, but tried to place his boots in the same crannies, on the same flat stones, as his lieutenant did.
They nestled into crannies in the complex clay latticework, leaving a central passage through which fresh material entered from the outside.
Cavelike crannies led off in all directions, bordered by glittering, faceted structures of hardened crystal.
Except for the eyes, those affecting moons of powdery gray, there was nothing immediately distinctive about him, no crags or crannies or funny clumps of hair for words to adhere to.
She found refuge in the kids' room, on the edge of Cammie's bed, in the furry maternal softness of Mister Mac the talking bear, the sunny unambiguous cheer of the furnishings, an all-enveloping baking-bread aroma of small children, the consolation of domestic detail, neglected crannies where grace dwelt, as crisis proved time and time again, the moment when Garrett first struck her as tangibly present as the baby blue rocking chair in which she sang Bas to sleep on nights of fear for both mother and son.
From this central point, tracks led outward in all directions unto the sheer walls ringed 'round, going into various shadowed cracks and dark crannies and black holes.
Through the crannies in the canvas he could see almost the whole of the interior of the tent.