Search for crossword answers and clues
Name whose reading hints at 17- and 59-Across
Answer for the clue "Name whose reading hints at 17- and 59-Across ", 11 letters:
connecticut
Alternative clues for the word connecticut
- Couple I snubbed, one of fifty in the US
- One of the original 13 colonies
- Name whose reading hints
- One of the British colonies that formed the United States
- A river in the northeastern United States
- New England state
- State of electric current after link severed
- Flows south from northern New Hampshire along the border between New Hampshire and Vermont and through Massachusetts and Connecticut where it empties into Long Island Sound
Word definitions for connecticut in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
U.S. state, originally the name of the river, said to be from Mohican (Algonquian) quinnitukqut "at the long tidal river," from *kwen- "long" + *-ehtekw "tidal river"\n+ *-enk "place."\n\n
Usage examples of connecticut.
Silas Deane, a Connecticut delegate who joined the procession, assured John Adams that the Congress was to be the grandest, most important assembly ever held in America.
There were British raids along the coast of Connecticut that summer, shortly before Adams returned, and apprehension along coastal Massachusetts that a major British strike there might be in the offing.
All through Massachusetts and Connecticut people lined the road to cheer Adams as one of their own, a New England man.
Perry Goodall brought new bees down in March from his house in Connecticut to replenish his urban hive, half of which had swarmed.
It was the bservation hive from his town house, repopulated with bees from Connecticut.
The friend who was waiting to meet her in Connecticut called Poppa Bowditch, who called the local police, who called the Connecticut police.
But no brakeman disturbed him on that jolting journey deep into the marshy shore line where Connecticut paralleled the Sound.
Presbyterian Church and the Congregationalist clergy of the little colony of Connecticut seems like a disproportioned one.
Morose professors from Drakestone College in Connecticut did not seem the type to relish the company of disreputable street bums.
Durmond Pilverman resided in Beaker Lake, Connecticut, and taught at Drakestone College.
Mystic, Connecticut, they changed into something dressier than their work clothes.
He walked along Connecticut for a few blocks, jostling with the rush-hour crowd, smiling goofily to himself, his feet never touching the concrete.
Greenwich Library, in Connecticut, for answering many queries with unfailing courtesy and for efficient service in interlibrary loans.
In 1969, a doctor at a Yale University lab in New Haven, Connecticut, who was studying Lassa fever came down with it.
They were Mainers, and any man of sense knew that when it came to Yankee traders a Mainer could skin a man from Massachusetts or Connecticut coming and going.