Calls From Afar Crossword

Calls from afar crossword clue. A daily quick one crossword that appear in Daily Telegraph Sydney on Wednesday, 19 July 2017. 5 letters.

The answer: HAILS

Hail meaning

verb (used with object)
1. to cheer, salute, or greet; welcome.
2. to acclaim; approve enthusiastically:
The crowds hailed the conquerors. They hailed the recent advances in medicine.
3. to call out to in order to stop, attract attention, ask aid, etc.:
to hail a cab.

example:

He read also the older Church Fathers and soon won for himself fame as a student, whilst his skill in the classics led his friends to hail him as “the undoubted Cicero of our age.”