Crossword clues for cruxes
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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Wiktionary
n. (plural of crux English)
Usage examples of "cruxes".
After a short and rough ride with the Cruxes in the lead, they drew up in the parking lot of the Bailey Yacht Club.
That was enough to panic even these fearsome creatures, and the Frills scattered into the shadowy nooks and cruxes surrounding the Blood Prism.
Instead of roosting among the cruxes and nooks of the crystal, these Elaysians roosted among the pits and crannies of the fungus.
At various dramatic cruxes, he would lean back with a faint shudder of pain and grasp the adoring hand of Mari Kuniyoshi.
There were all sorts of legal cruxes to be thought out, not only regarding the taking of life, even of a monstrosity in human form, but also of property.
There were all sorts of legal cruxes to be thought out, not only regarding the taking of life, even of a monstrosity in human form, but also of property.