Crossword clues for scales
scales
- Cleans, as a fish
- Blueprint features
- What boxers are on before fights
- Weight-measuring devices
- Weigh station equipment
- Treasury Department seal feature
- They're held by Lady Justice
- They might tip in your favor
- Subway slot machines
- Sound exercise?
- Snake feature
- Small plates of fish?
- Singer's practice routine
- Sequential exercise
- Runs from the pianist?
- Richter and Fahrenheit
- Post-office devices
- Piscine features
- Piano practice exercises
- Piano drills
- Pianist's practice
- Pianist's assignment
- Only inanimate zodiac symbol
- Only inanimate zodiac representation
- Musical basics
- Libra's trademark
- Keyboard practice staple
- Justice, symbolically
- Instrument practice
- Household items that get pressed down on
- Gets high on?
- Fish's covering
- Fish protectors
- Fish plates
- Does fish-cleaning
- Devices for weighing
- Climbs, or what the starred answers all have
- Climbs, as a cliff
- Catfish coat
- Basic piano practice
- Ascends, as a mountain
- _____ of justice
- Musical ladders
- Zodiac symbol
- They may be sliding
- Things with ___ (theme of this puzzle)
- Choir practice
- Some are minor
- Libra's symbol
- Balance — climbs
- Device used by Anubis to determine a soul's fate
- What some black squares in this grid represent
- What Justice holds
- Fish market sights
- Something to tip
- Piano practice pieces
- Weighing devices
- Weighing machines
- Climbs up
- Items to tip
- Virgo's neighbor
- Symbol of justice
- Fish and musical
- Libra symbols
- Conquers the Matterhorn
- These are often tipped
- Climbs on the weighing machine
- What most fish have to be weighed on
- Series of deposits
- Flakes found in special cold drinks
- Goes up
- Fish feature
- Fish features
- Justice symbol
- Pianist's exercise
- Fish parts
- Musical exercises
- Butcher-shop machines
- Things a benched player may work on during practice
- Post office machines
- Notes comprise them
- Goes to the top of
Wiktionary
n. (plural of scale English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: scale)
Wikipedia
The surname Scales has at least two origins:
- a variant spelling of the surname Scholes
- someone from the manor of Scales, Norfolk
People with the surname Scales include:
- Baron Scales, a title in the Peerage of England, including a list of people named de Scales
- Alfred Moore Scales (1827-1892), Governor of North Carolina and Confederate Army general during the American Civil War
- Dwight Scales (born 1953), former National Football League wide receiver
- George Scales (1900-1976), American baseball player and manager in the Negro Leagues
- Harvey Scales, American R&B singer, songwriter, and producer
- John Scales (born 1966), English former footballer
- John N. Scales (born 1933 or 1934), American former Pennsylvania state senator
- Junius Scales (1920–2002), a leader of the Communist Party of the United States of America
- Patrick Scales (American football) (born 1988), American football player
- Prunella Scales (born 1932), English actor best known for the television series Fawlty Towers
- Robert H. Scales (born 1944), retired US Army major general
Usage examples of "scales".
Kit roared a warning, and Don and Elda dashed indoors to say the middle of the roof was dipping downward, spreading the tiles like scales on a fir cone.
Many of its dingy green scales were split, or peeling, and they hung in ridges over the sharp bones beneath.
There was a piece of gold chain and a bent coronet caught among the broken scales there.
It glistened now, green all over, and the scales that had looked so loose and ragged had healed flat and whole again.
Every so often there would be a billow of fire and some roaring in the distance, and Scales would come sweeping inward, driving a panting huddle of men toward the dome, where Kit struggled to let them in, while Blade tried to stop the ones inside from getting out.
Instead, he mounted Nancy Cobber and rode as near to Scales as Nancy would go.
He was not going to call Scales sir again even if Scales ate him for it.
The geese, who liked to see humans being bullied, kept up beside Scales, alternately flying and waddling.
Kit might grunt every time he moved his wings, but his eyes gleamed and his crest was up cockily as he strutted over to open the camp when Scales got the soldiers walking again.
Shona was saying charmingly as Blade headed for the huge green bulk of Scales at a sharp trot.
They marched over open grassland, where trees clustered beside small streams, at quite a brisk pace, with Scales steadily crawling behind, and by evening they were beginning to see mountains in the distance ahead.
By this time Blade was ashamed that he had not trusted Scales over the gold.
As soon as the soldiers were inside and Blade had taken the animals to drink at the nearby stream, Scales beckoned Kit and made Kit walk with him all around the camp, showing him how to seal the magics of the dome more securely into the ground.
It would have been even greater fun if Blade had not kept thinking of small pigtailed men being crunched the way Scales had pretended to crunch that soldier.
When Derk finally arrived, he caused the greatest sensation of the lot, because he was riding Scales again.