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While escaping from Crete with his father (using the wings Daedalus had made) he flew too close to the sun and the wax melted and he fell into the Aegean and drowned
Answer for the clue "While escaping from Crete with his father (using the wings Daedalus had made) he flew too close to the sun and the wax melted and he fell into the Aegean and drowned ", 6 letters:
icarus
Alternative clues for the word icarus
- Doomed flier
- Victim of hot wings?
- Victim of sun burn?
- Hubristic flier of myth
- Italy: singer from there mostly a would-be high-flier
- Youth who flew too near to the sun
- International vehicle American gives legendary high flyer
- The hot wings were too much for him
- Legendary meltdown victim
- Doomed Greek with wax wings
Usage examples of icarus.
He had, after all, done his nuke perisher - the cos' Qualifying Course - after surviving the Icarus incident, and FOSM'S appointer had at the time hinted that if Farge succeeded in the perisher and was promoted to commander, he would, as the most experienced of the candidates, be getting one of the Swiftsures - the nuclear hunter-killers which, because of their success, were now being produced as fast as the yards could build them.
Quiescent and apparently defensive minded though they'd been since Icarus, Pierre was far from convinced that they were down for the count.
Moreover a perfect opportunity to test those modifications presented itself in the form of Icarus B’s twin, Icarus C, which was just in the right phase of construction to permit ready incorporation of the redesigns, provided that no time was wasted in approving the change of plan.
The journal of Neurophysiology's going to one zip code and Physica Scripta and ICARUS are going to another.