Crossword clues for agatha
agatha
- Author ____ Christie
- Writer played by Vanessa in 1979
- Novelist Christie
- Hercule creator
- First name in mystery authors
- Dame Christie of Miss Marple fame
- Crime novelist Christie
- Aunt in P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories
- "The Mousetrap" playwright Christie
- Name on an annual literary award
- Mystery great Christie
- Miss Marple's creator Christie
- Heroine of the "Girl Genius" stories
- First name on the mystery shelf
- First name in British whodunits
- Erle's onetime rival
- Erle's one-time rival
- Dame Christie
- Crime writer's award
- Crime writer ... Christie
- Creator of Tommy and Tuppence
- Creator of the detective Hercule
- Creator of Jane and Hercule
- Creator of Hercule and Jane
- Creator of Hercule
- Christie who wrote a mystery novel about bridge (but presumably never closed one on purpose to be a dick)
- Christie who created Poirot
- Christie who created Miss Marple
- Christie of the mysteries
- Bertie's aunt in P.G. Wodehouse stories
- Annual mystery writer's award
- 1979 Vanessa Redgrave movie about a mystery writer
- 1979 Vanessa Redgrave film
- 1979 title role for Vanessa
- 1979 Dustin Hoffman movie
- “And Then There Were None” author Christie
- "N or M?" author Christie
- "Girl Genius" protagonist
- __ Raisin, British whodunit sleuth named for a British writer
- Christie who wrote 38-Down
- Hercule's creator
- Mystery woman?
- 1979 Vanessa Redgrave title role
- Christie of mystery
- First name in mysteries
- First name in mystery fiction
- Dame of mystery writing
- She created Hercule
- Saint whose name means "good"
- Annual award for mystery writers
- Christie who wrote "Ten Little Indians"
- Christie who created Hercule Poirot
- Sicilian saint invoked against storms
- First name in detective fiction
- Hoffman film
- Christie of mysteries
- Writer Christie
- Patron saint of Catania
- Girl, pagan at heart, that’s last to go
- Christie's originally gave auctioneer table - I've got it outside
- Ottoman commander with short Thai girl
- Writer's first cooker and fancy hat
- Sort of saga which almost was related to 3 11
- Range that mostly identifies crime writer to her closest fans?
- Girl's name
- Mystery writer's award
- First name in whodunits
- Mystery award named for a British writer
- Contemporary of Dashiell
- First name in crime fiction
- Christie of whodunits
- Mystery writer Christie
- Award for mystery writers
- Author Christie
- Mystery writing award
- Writer ____ Christie
- Mystery author Christie
- Mysterious first name
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fem. proper name, from Latin, from Greek Agathe, fem. of agathos "good," which is of unknown origin. Never a popular name in U.S., and all but unused there since 1940.
Wikipedia
Agatha is a 1979 drama thriller film directed by Michael Apted, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Dustin Hoffman and Timothy Dalton, and written by Kathleen Tynan. The film focuses on renowned crime writer Agatha Christie, offering a theory as to her still unsolved 12-day disappearance in 1926.
Agatha , Agata, or Ágata is a feminine given name derived from the Ancient Greek word ἀγαθός (agathos), meaning good.
It was the name of St. Agatha of Sicily, a third-century Christian martyr. The name has been rarely used in English-speaking countries in recent years. It was last ranked among the top 1,000 names for girls born in the United States during the 1930s.
Agatha is a small genus of minute sea snails or marine gastropod mollusks within the subfamily Syrnolinae, which is a part of the family Pyramidellidae.
They have bilateral symmetry, and only have endoderm and ectoderm tissues.
The species of this genus are ectoparasites on other invertebrates.
Agatha may refer to:
- Agatha (given name), a feminine given name
- Agatha, California, a former settlement in Merced County
- Hurricane Agatha (disambiguation), tropical storms and hurricanes
- Operation Agatha, a 1946 British police and military operation in Mandatory Palestine
- Agatha (genus), a genus of gastropods
- Agatha (film), a 1979 film about Agatha Christie
- Agatha Award, for mystery and crime writers
Usage examples of "agatha".
Diana Belfield should start for the grand tour of Europe under no more imposing protection than that of her cousin and intimate friend, Miss Agatha Gosling.
For the rest, Agatha contented herself with spinning suppositions about the people she never spoke to.
He was tall and fair, slight, and, as Agatha Gosling said, aristocratic-looking.
At last Agatha Gosling discovered what it was, and made a solemn proclamation of the same.
It was certainly natural to suppose he was in love with some one, and, as Agatha said, it could not possibly be with herself.
Longstaff was observed to speak was an elderly man of foreign aspect who approached him occasionally in the most deferential manner, and whom Agatha Gosling supposed to be his servant.
Presently she added that she would go home and write a letter, and, though she had never taken a step in Europe without having Agatha by her side, Miss Gosling now allowed her to depart unattended.
His eyes, which Agatha thought very handsome, had a remarkable expression.
The young Americans came out and sat upon the shore the next day, and the next, and the next, and Agatha watched intently for Mr.
But before they separated, Agatha had persuaded her to say that if a message really should come from the young mans death-bed, she would not refuse him the light of her presence.
It was an awkward situation for her, and Agatha expected her at any moment to turn away in disgust.
There was a deep silence, and Agatha thought it would be delicate on her own part to retire.
It was, in a large measure, in the light of after years that Agatha judged this period, but even at the time she felt it to be depressing, uncomfortable, unnatural.
She took refuge in a kind of haughty silence, and whenever a new contretemps came to her knowledge, she simply greeted it with a bitter smile which Agatha always interpreted as an ironical reflection on poor, fantastic, obtrusive Mr.
But at home they separated very tenderly, for Agatha had to go and devote herself to her nearer kinsfolk in the country.