Crossword clues for cruces
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crux \Crux\ (kr[u^]ks), n.; pl. E. Cruxes (-[e^]z), L.
Cruces (kr[udd]"s[=e]z). [L., cross, torture, trouble.]
Anything that is very puzzling or difficult to explain.
--Dr.
Sheridan.
The perpetual crux of New Testament chronologists.
--Strauss.
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Cruces, a Spanish word that is the near equivalent of the English word "crosses", may refer to:
- Cruces, Cuba, a town in Cuba
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Cruces River, a river in Chile
- Río Cruces Bridge, a bridge that crosses Cruces River
- Cruces River (Puerto Rico)
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Cruces - Gurutzeta, a neighbourhood in Barakaldo, Spain
- Gurutzeta/Cruces (Metro Bilbao), metro station in that neighbourhood
- Cruces (peak), highest point of the Sierra de San Vicente, Sistema Central, Spain
- Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States
- Vila de Cruces, a town in Galicia, Spain
- Villanueva de las Cruces, a town in Andalusia, Spain
Usage examples of "cruces".
The sedan had chased him all the way from Las Cruces to the Caballo foothills.
He also headed in the general direction of Las Cruces, then turned south on I-10 toward El Paso.
The town of Las Cruces had traffic, but not all that much at the dinner hour.
They rented the carsall four groupsin Las Cruces, New Mexico, and probably drove independently to their objectives.
Las Cruces, New Mexico, and probably drove independently to their objectives.
So those ranchers, miners, town tradesmen and shopkeepers of Cruces, with their families about them, talked high or low, and paid no heed to Silvertip as he went by.
For one thing, if Bandini had been retained as a tutor to educate Pedro as a fighting man, it was odd that the teacher and the pupil should have been so obviously quarreling when they were in Cruces together.
He could think without sharp pain of the dead man now, for the vow he had made silently in Cruces had been discharged.
Gunnar drove back past the Horse Trough Bar and on down into Las Cruces, where he shopped at a chain market and bitched under his breath at the prices and over his breath at the crowd.
He came in at eight thirty every night on his way home somewhere out toward Las Cruces and left at exactly eleven thirty.
Dodge truck that Beta RAM drove down into Las Cruces was so battered it almost looked as if someone had stuck four bald tires on one of the Camp Earth shanties and pushed it down the hill.
HAD BURNED UP the highway between Truth or Consequences and Las Cruces, twice avoiding the flashing lights of state police cruisers by sheer reckless driving.
He had gotten the credit-card records from the Las Cruces House Warehouse store.
Jim Chee was driving through Nutt, New Mexico, on Highway 26, taking advantage of the shortcut that took one from Interstate 25 to Interstate 10 without the long dogleg to Las Cruces, taking advantage of that five-mile-over-the-speed-limit State Police usually allowed.
And thus the paramedic and the copter pilot flew her away to the hospital at Las Cruces, and she missed the arrival of an SUV occupied by Drug Enforcement Agents, and the resulting dispute over which of the agencies had jurisdiction, which was eventually resolved by the arrival of someone representing Homeland Security, who declared himself in charge of the FBI, the DEA, the Border Patrol, the Department of Land Management, and the Navajo Tribal Police.