| *Humorous five-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme, often ending in a punchline |
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| Humorous five lines (8) |
The Guardian Quick |
14 Oct 2025 |
| Humorous five-line poem |
The Times Concise |
02 Jul 2025 |
| Five lines of fruit, man! (8) |
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| Comical poem (8) |
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| Humorous 5-line verse (8) |
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| Was there once a man from this Irish town? |
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| Comic verse's pace interrupted by setter's hesitation |
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| Humorous verse |
The Sun Two Speed |
12 May 2025 |
| Fruit stack in Irish county |
The Sun Two Speed |
12 May 2025 |
| There was a young lady ... from the Mid-West? |
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| Port city in southwestern Ireland (8) |
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| Funny poem |
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| Rhyme about milk and rice |
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| City poem |
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| Name of an Irish city that's also a type of well-known five-line poem (8) |
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| Type of humorous poem |
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| Form of comic verse (8) |
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| Stack of fruit in funny rhyme |
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| *Humorous five-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme, often ending in a punchline |
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| A stack of fruit in Ireland |
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| Type of humorous poem (Last 4 letters + ...) |
Universal |
06 Nov 2024 |
| Ireland's third largest city, on the estuary of the River Shannon (8) |
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| *Humorous five-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme, often ending in a punchline |
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| Comic rhyme (8) |
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| Fruit strain's funny lines |
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| How to rile Mick with a humorous verse with an Irish flavour |
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| Amusing little piece about rice milk |
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| 2014 City of Culture in the Republic of Ireland |
Mirror Quiz |
24 Sep 2024 |
| One man going up to another somewhere in Ireland (8) |
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| Nonsense verse popularised by Edward Lear (8) |
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| Fruit placed to stack in five lines |
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| 2014 City of Culture in the Republic of Ireland |
Mirror Quiz |
29 Jul 2024 |
| Stack of fruit in humorous verse (8) |
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| Humorous verse form |
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| For "green", strain to get a rhyme (8) |
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| Short comic verse; Irish county |
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| Green boy in poem |
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| Form of comic verse of five lines in which the first, second and fifth lines rhyme (8) |
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| Humourous bit of verse (8) |
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| Five-lined humorous verse (8) |
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| Fruit stack poem (8) |
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| A fish hook that has 5 lines (8) |
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| Humorous rhyme (8) |
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| Humorous five-line verse with a rhyming scheme (8) |
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| Short humorous verse (8) |
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| Poetic form with an AABBA rhyme scheme |
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| Irish city of fifty thousand concealing one awful crime (8) |
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| Irish city of fifty thousand concealing one awful crime |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
12 Jan 2024 |
| Irish town on the Shannon estuary (8) |
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| Funny rhyme about Shannon port (8) |
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| Eponymous county of Ireland |
New York Times |
16 Jun 2023 |
| Comic verse |
The Telegraph Quick |
23 Apr 2022 |
| Stack of fruit in Irish county? |
The Times Cryptic |
23 Feb 2022 |
| Pile of alkaline substance in Irish location |
The Times Cryptic |
26 Nov 2021 |
| Jazz solo contains merit - missing the last five lines that's poetic |
Irish Times Crosaire |
12 Nov 2021 |
| Jazz solo contains merit - missing the last five lines that's poetic |
Irish Times Crosaire |
30 Aug 2021 |
| A little work in green grass pile |
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| I'm (hesitantly) getting into beat for this verse form |
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| A Swedish group has poetic scheme for this Lear favourite |
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| Port, and a few lines of poetry |
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| Fruit put on heap — one concerned next clue but one |
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| Humorous verse from the mid-West |
Irish Times Simplex |
12 Mar 2021 |
| Eric's covered in split milk in funny poem |
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| Humorous work made of fruit difficult to peel |
The Telegraph Toughie |
11 Feb 2021 |
| Eponymous Irish city |
New York Times |
07 Feb 2021 |
| Rice cooked with milk in Irish location |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 Jan 2021 |
| Humorous verse |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 Jan 2021 |
| Amusing five-line rhyme |
The Times Concise |
04 Jan 2021 |
| Jazz solo contains merit - missing the last five lines that's poetic |
Irish Times Crosaire |
26 Nov 2020 |
| Fruit stack in Irish county |
The Sun Two Speed |
12 Oct 2020 |
| Fruit alongside haystack in Irish county |
The Sun Two Speed |
01 Sep 2020 |
| Poem often starting with 'There' |
The Washington Post |
23 Jul 2020 |
| Poem often starting with "There" |
LA Times Daily |
23 Jul 2020 |
| Stack is after one of The Greens in Munster |
Irish Times Crosaire |
05 Jun 2020 |
| Humorous poem |
Eugene Sheffer |
25 May 2020 |
| Humorous verse of 5 lines |
Irish Times Simplex |
21 Mar 2020 |
| Funny five-line verse |
LA Times Daily |
20 Jan 2020 |
| Funny five-line verse |
The Washington Post |
20 Jan 2020 |
| Humorous verse |
Wall Street Journal |
29 Oct 2019 |
| Colourful type of building unit that needs no introduction to one of those in Munster |
Irish Times Crosaire |
17 Sep 2019 |
| Five-line poem |
Thomas Joseph |
11 Sep 2019 |
| Claim of Queen overwhelmed by defeat in Irish county |
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| Slimy material -- maybe, Astley's verse |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
04 Apr 2019 |
| Humorous verse |
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| Composition with citrus twist |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
18 Nov 2018 |
| Fruit stack in Munster |
Irish Times Crosaire |
16 Jul 2018 |
| Rice stirred with milk, a speciality of 22 10 |
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| Humorous verse |
The Times Concise |
04 Apr 2018 |
| Irish city and county, also a humorous poem |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
05 Nov 2017 |
| Poem with a citrus twist? |
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| Rhyme with a punch line |
Universal |
13 Jan 2017 |
| There was a young man from Adare, who's a very close neighbour of Clare? |
Irish Times Crosaire |
06 Jan 2017 |
| Rhyme with a punch line |
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| Poem from Irish city |
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| Lines penned by humorist forming pile beneath tree |
The Times Cryptic |
23 Jun 2015 |
| Somewhere in Ireland a Python's introducing himself after the premiere of Lion King |
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| Short amusing verse |
The Telegraph Quick |
28 Mar 2015 |
| Verse often beginning "There once was a ..." |
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| Irish city where The Cranberries formed |
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| Writing that's often obscene |
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| Often-bawdy verse |
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| Scheme of 45-51 Down |
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| Poem with the rhyme scheme aabba |
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| Poem with the rhyme scheme aabba |
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| Five-line verse |
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| Five-line verse |
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| Poem with a punch line |
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| Five-liner |
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| It often starts "There once was a..." |
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| Stack of fruit in Irish county? |
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| Lear's 5-liner |
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| Edward Lear specialty |
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| Lear creation |
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| Verse named for Irish town |
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| Verse form named after a county |
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| A lace of Irish origin |
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| Seaport on the Shannon. |
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| Nonsense verse. |
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| Type of jingle. |
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| Type of poem. |
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| Verse form. |
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