Word "SCOPES" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
Tennessee highschool teacher who violated a state law by teaching evolution; in a highly publicized trial in 1925 he was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow (1900-1970)
Synonyms:
john scopes, john thomas scopes

Crossword Clues for SCOPES

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VDUs (6)
Investigates lawyer over odd pleas
Assesses how self-starter fares (6)
Rifle attachments Commuter 12 Feb 2025
Does some recon, with "out"
Ranges or extents (6)
John T ___, central figure in a 1925 trial related to the teaching of the theory of evolution
Society manages to get devices for assisting vision? (6)
"Monkey Trial" defendant of July 1925 (6)
___ out (does some recon on)
Defendant of 1925 Thomas Joseph 18 Jul 2024
Son deals successfully with limits
Fellow in a monkey suit? Wall Street Journal 11 May 2024
___ out (evaluates) Universal 06 May 2024
Catches sight of hapless cop eschewing arrests (6)
Teacher defended by Darrow in 1925 LA Times Daily 23 Mar 2024
Evolution defendant
___ out (assesses) USA Today 01 Mar 2024
Manage to board ship with some viewing equipment
Examines, with 'out'
Head of strategy manages fields The Guardian Cryptic 02 Oct 2023
Defendant of 1925 Thomas Joseph 22 Sep 2023
___ out (assesses carefully) USA Today 23 Mar 2023
Cases, with "out" LA Times Daily 23 Feb 2023
Defendant in a 1925 trial Thomas Joseph 29 Dec 2021
Checks (out) New York Times 27 Apr 2021
Checks (out) LA Times Daily 14 Oct 2020
Checks (out) The Washington Post 14 Oct 2020
Ranges The Times Concise 16 Aug 2020
Sharpshooters' aids The Washington Post 12 Apr 2020
Sharpshooters' aids LA Times Daily 12 Apr 2020
Rifle barrel mounts USA Today 19 Nov 2019
Defendant in a 1925 case Wall Street Journal 19 Oct 2019
Makes the grade after school and does a job in the theatre Irish Times Crosaire 02 Sep 2019
Man in a monkey suit Wall Street Journal 23 May 2019
'Monkey Trial' defendant USA Today 24 Apr 2019
Optical instruments in cloak smuggled aboard ship
Man in a monkey suit
Defendant in a 1925 case
"Monkey Trial" defendant
Checks (out)
Defendant of 1925 Thomas Joseph 07 Dec 2018
Medical instruments with cameras, for short The Washington Post Sunday 02 Sep 2018
Assesses sister and manages
Sharpshooters' aids USA Today 20 Apr 2018
Viewing instruments to manage on board steamship
Opportunities for school keeps the wolves from the door Irish Times Crosaire 03 Jan 2018
Sharpshooters' aids
Teacher in the "Monkey Trial" Universal 25 Nov 2017
Keep one's head above water in ship watching over the guns Irish Times Crosaire 09 Nov 2017
Sharpshooters' aiming devices LA Times Daily 22 Aug 2017
Sharpshooters' aiming devices The Washington Post 22 Aug 2017
Sizes or ranges of subject or topics covered Irish Times Simplex 07 Jun 2017
Teacher in the "Monkey Trial"
Sharpshooters' aiming devices
''Inherit the Wind'' inspiration Newsday 23 Dec 2016
Sharpshooters' magnifiers LA Times Daily 05 Sep 2016
Son manages to get rooms
Sharpshooters' magnifiers
Aiming devices LA Times Daily 13 Dec 2015
Ranges The Telegraph Quick 08 Nov 2015
"Monkey Trial" teacher Universal 07 Jun 2015
Aiming devices
"Monkey Trial" teacher
Checks (out)
Examines, with "out"
Cases (out)
Cases (out)
1925 trial name
One of Darrow's clients
___ Monkey Trial
1925 Monkey Trial defendant
1925 Darrow client
Defendant in a noted 1925 trial
Compasses
Magnifiers of distant objects, perhaps
Man in a monkey suit?
Darrow client
"Monkey Trial" teacher
Monkey Trial defendant, 1925
"Monkey Trial" defendant
Clarence Darrow client
Ranges of effectiveness
Defendant in a 1925 trial
Ranges of effectiveness
Monkey Trial name
Checks (out), slangily
Checks (out), slangily
Darrow's Darwin-defender defendant
Darrow defendant
Sharpshooters' needs
Monkey Trial name
Monkey Trial name
"Monkey Trial" defendant
Defendant of 1925
Compasses
Darrow defended him
High-school teacher John Thomas of the '20s
Clarence Darrow defendant of 1925
"Monkey trial" figure
___ Trial (1925 court case)
With 51-Down, 1925 evolutionism-vs.-creationism watershed
Monkey-trial figure
Trial of 1925
Monkey-trial defendant
"Monkey Trial" defendant
"Monkey trial" defendant
Famous trial figure
Famous Darrow client
Famous trial of 1925.
Teacher who was tried in Tennessee, 1925.
Victim of "Dayton Trial," July, 1925.
Teacher accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act
Principal in Tennessee evolution trial, 1925.
Figure in Tennessee "evolution" trial, 1925.
Famous trial figure, 1925.
Teacher on trial, 1925.
Famous trial figure.
Defendant in 1925 trial.
Defendant in a famous trial, 1925.
His trial is subject of "Inherit the Wind."
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