| Writing that's not poetry |
Newsday |
29 Jun 2026 |
| PlusWord No 1483 solution |
The Telegraph Plusword |
13 Jun 2026 |
| Plain writing |
New York Times Midi |
06 May 2026 |
| Writing introduction to perennial beauty |
The Times Cryptic |
27 Apr 2026 |
| Writings not in verse (5) |
Puzzler |
19 Mar 2026 |
| Plain writing |
The Telegraph Plusword |
23 Feb 2026 |
| Poetry's counterpart |
Universal |
01 Feb 2026 |
| Ordinary writing |
Universal |
23 Jan 2026 |
| Conventional writing |
LA Times Daily |
10 Jan 2026 |
| Articles are written in this |
New York Times |
14 Dec 2025 |
| Writing that isn't classed as poetry; ropes (anag.) |
The Telegraph Mini |
09 Dec 2025 |
| Much writing |
Thomas Joseph |
06 Dec 2025 |
| Used ropes, not poetry (5) |
Mirror Cryptic |
30 Oct 2025 |
| Writing (5) |
Mirror Quick |
30 Oct 2025 |
| Ordinary writing |
LA Times Daily |
14 Oct 2025 |
| Nonpoetic writing |
USA Today |
09 Sep 2025 |
| Non-poetic writing |
Commuter |
08 Sep 2025 |
| Ordinary language |
The Atlantic |
06 Sep 2025 |
| Some 27-Across works |
Newsday |
28 Aug 2025 |
| Plain writing |
Eugene Sheffer |
15 Aug 2025 |
| Queen bearing pens for writing |
The Times Cryptic |
09 Aug 2025 |
| Opening of Pinot wine is an option for a writer |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
04 Aug 2025 |
| Novel products |
Newsday |
05 Jul 2025 |
| Poet's first flower was not in verse (5) |
|
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| Got up quietly at first: the writing is plain (5) |
|
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| Baum's Mother Goose in __ |
Newsday |
24 May 2025 |
| Plain writing |
Eugene Sheffer |
09 May 2025 |
| Poetry's counterpart |
USA Today |
27 Apr 2025 |
| Ordinary speech untangles ropes (5) |
|
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| Non-poetry |
New York Times |
07 Apr 2025 |
| Writing without verse |
New York Times |
27 Mar 2025 |
| Written words without verse structure (5) |
|
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| Poser set in unpoetical language |
|
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| Non-verse writing (5) |
The Telegraph Mini |
17 Mar 2025 |
| Writing not in verse (5) |
|
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| Writing that's not poetic |
USA Today |
19 Feb 2025 |
| Counterpart of poetry |
LA Times Daily |
18 Feb 2025 |
| Language without metrical form (5) |
|
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| Page shown by woman in plain language (5) |
|
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| It's not poetry (5) |
The Guardian Quick |
03 Feb 2025 |
| Non-poetic writing |
The Sun Two Speed |
03 Feb 2025 |
| Tedious talk of flower power begins |
The Sun Two Speed |
03 Feb 2025 |
| Written word, unlike 34-Across (5) |
|
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| Non-verse writings |
|
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| Writing about ropes |
|
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| Writing experts in conversation |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
13 Dec 2024 |
| It's written in a professional way (5) |
|
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| Writing with no poetic meter |
|
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| Page came up for written work |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
24 Oct 2024 |
| Ordinary writing |
LA Times Daily |
21 Oct 2024 |
| So the rep is not well-versed in it? |
|
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| Verse inverse |
LA Times Daily |
12 Oct 2024 |
| Everybody says it |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
11 Oct 2024 |
| Those in favour have a point in writing (5) |
|
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| The sort of poser that is not in verse |
|
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| Plain text |
LA Times Daily |
20 Sep 2024 |
| Quietly got up to make ordinary speech (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
18 Sep 2024 |
| Regular language |
|
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| Experts on English writing |
|
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| Piece of writing; poser (anag.) |
The Telegraph Plusword |
03 Sep 2024 |
| Writing not poetry or verse (5) |
|
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| To take one to law for such writing would be cute (5) |
|
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| Quietly got up to make ordinary speech (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
17 Aug 2024 |
| Unrhymed writing |
|
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| Pores over what's been written (5) |
|
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| Opposite of poetry |
Universal |
10 Jul 2024 |
| Writing in English by experts |
|
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| Essay text |
LA Times Daily |
22 Jun 2024 |
| Ordinary writing |
USA Today |
20 Jun 2024 |
| Quietly got up and saw the writing (5) |
|
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| Plain writing |
LA Times Mini |
12 Jun 2024 |
| Non-poetry writing; spore (anag.) |
The Telegraph Plusword |
31 May 2024 |
| Writings from scribes or poets turning up |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
30 May 2024 |
| Soft pink in everyday language |
|
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| Plain writing |
New York Times |
13 May 2024 |
| Non-poetic language |
The Times Concise |
10 May 2024 |
| The ropes as known by novelists, for example (5) |
|
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| It's the sort of poser that can't be expressed in verse (5) |
|
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| Counterpart of poetry |
LA Times Daily |
14 Apr 2024 |
| Poser rewritten for unpoetical piece (5) |
|
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| Experts heard a tedious speech (5) |
|
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| Spoken or written language as in ordinary usage (5) |
|
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| "Purple" stuff in books |
|
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| Unpoetic writing (5) |
|
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| What the Mechanicals speak in, in A Midsummer Night's Dream |
|
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| Style of writing |
|
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| Purple ____ |
|
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| What a poser! There's no rhyme to it! (5) |
|
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| Plain talk |
Newsday |
05 Jan 2024 |
| Nonpoetic writing |
LA Times Daily |
03 Jan 2024 |
| Nonverse |
|
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| Language of a novel |
Newsday |
26 Dec 2023 |
| Sit, holding last of writer's writing (5) |
|
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| Nonpoetic writing |
Newsday |
28 Nov 2023 |
| Poetry's counterpart |
Universal |
11 Nov 2023 |
| Nonpoetic writing |
Newsday |
08 Nov 2023 |
| Plain text |
LA Times Daily |
25 Oct 2023 |
| Narrative writing |
LA Times Daily |
27 Aug 2023 |
| Poetry's counterpart |
USA Today |
29 Jul 2023 |
| Everyday writing |
Newsday |
28 Jun 2023 |
| Novelist's writing |
Universal |
09 Jun 2023 |
| 'Purple' stuff |
New York Times |
26 May 2023 |
| Counterpart of poetry |
USA Today |
27 Apr 2023 |
| Plain writing |
Universal |
18 Apr 2023 |
| Nonpoetic writing |
Universal |
11 Apr 2023 |
| Much writing |
Thomas Joseph |
02 Nov 2022 |
| Essay writing, e.g |
New York Times |
16 Sep 2022 |
| Initially, pen picked up for some writing |
The Times Cryptic |
12 Sep 2022 |
| Nonpoetic writing |
Newsday |
30 Aug 2022 |
| Nonpoetic language |
Universal |
26 Aug 2022 |
| Counterpart of poetry |
USA Today |
25 Aug 2022 |
| Plain writing |
Universal |
25 Aug 2022 |
| Plain text? |
Wall Street Journal |
24 Aug 2022 |
| Everyday language |
Newsday |
24 Jul 2022 |
| Most writing |
Thomas Joseph |
03 May 2022 |
| Poetry's counterpart |
Universal |
17 Apr 2022 |
| Ordinary language appeared elevated on page |
The Times Cryptic |
08 Mar 2022 |
| Plain talk |
Newsday |
25 Feb 2022 |
| Writing without metrical structure |
Universal |
23 Feb 2022 |
| Essay's language |
Universal |
14 Feb 2022 |
| 'Purple' output from authors |
|
|
| Novel content |
New York Times |
31 Dec 2021 |
| Poetry's counterpart |
USA Today |
31 Oct 2021 |
| Plain writing |
Eugene Sheffer |
08 Sep 2021 |
| Novelist's language |
Universal |
07 Sep 2021 |
| Writing supporting southeast |
|
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| Novel stuff |
Wall Street Journal |
22 May 2021 |
| Quietly got up to give tedious speech |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
01 Apr 2021 |
| Poetry's counterpart |
USA Today |
04 Mar 2021 |
| Plain talk |
Newsday |
18 Feb 2021 |
| Adjectives -- or pronouns -- will hold back such writing |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
03 Feb 2021 |
| Language of a novel |
Newsday |
02 Feb 2021 |
| Writing that's not poetry |
Newsday |
01 Feb 2021 |
| Bad language makes one quietly revolted |
The Telegraph Toughie |
03 Dec 2020 |
| . Writing in support of case of sabotage |
|
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| Non-poetic writing |
The Sun Two Speed |
04 Sep 2020 |
| Flower power begins in text |
The Sun Two Speed |
04 Sep 2020 |
| Dull discussion flower power introduces |
The Telegraph Toughie |
11 Aug 2020 |
| Common writing |
|
|
| Everyday language |
|
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| Everyday language |
LA Times Daily |
21 Jun 2020 |
| Ordinary writing |
Newsday |
31 May 2020 |
| Poetry's counterpart |
Universal |
11 May 2020 |
| Some writing quietly got more intense? |
|
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| Nonpoetic writing |
Newsday |
14 Apr 2020 |
| Novel filler |
New York Times |
06 Mar 2020 |
| Novel makeup |
LA Times Daily |
05 Jan 2020 |
| Novel makeup |
|
|
| Regular writing |
Newsday |
29 Dec 2019 |
| Ordinary language |
Newsday |
29 Sep 2019 |
| It's not good if it's purple |
|
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| It's not good if it's purple |
New York Times |
13 Sep 2019 |
| Priest stood up to deliver dull discourse |
|
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| Ordinary writing |
The Times Concise |
08 Aug 2019 |
| Verse alternative |
|
|
| Verse alternative |
LA Times Daily |
21 Jul 2019 |
| Ordinary writing |
USA Today |
13 Jun 2019 |
| Text |
The Telegraph Quick |
04 Jun 2019 |
| Plain text |
|
|
| Plain text |
LA Times Daily |
23 May 2019 |
| It's not poetry |
LA Times Daily |
20 May 2019 |
| It's not poetry |
|
|
| Writing in biographies |
Newsday |
12 May 2019 |
| Narrative writing |
|
|
| Narrative writing |
LA Times Daily |
02 Apr 2019 |
| Type of writing of period seen regularly |
|
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| Verse alternative |
|
|
| Ordinary writing |
|
|
| It's not poetry |
|
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| Narrative writing |
|
|
| Plain text |
|
|
| Nonpoetic writing |
USA Today |
18 Nov 2018 |
| Most writing |
Thomas Joseph |
10 Oct 2018 |
| It isn't poetry |
Premier Sunday |
16 Sep 2018 |
| Unmetered writing |
USA Today |
12 Sep 2018 |
| Writing that isn't poetry |
LA Times Daily |
21 Aug 2018 |
| Writing that isn't poetry |
|
|
| Non-poetry |
Premier Sunday |
29 Jul 2018 |
| Sue ignoring charming writing |
|
|
| Flowery writing |
New York Times |
21 Jun 2018 |
| Everyday writing |
USA Today |
15 May 2018 |
| Novel makeup |
Wall Street Journal |
26 Apr 2018 |
| Plain writing |
Newsday |
24 Apr 2018 |
| Essayist's writing |
New York Times |
30 Mar 2018 |
| Standard speaking |
Newsday |
11 Mar 2018 |
| It couldn't be verse |
Wall Street Journal |
10 Feb 2018 |
| Dull writing increased on page |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
23 Jan 2018 |
| Writing that isn't poetry |
|
|
| Ordinary writing |
|
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| Novel makeup |
|
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| Unmetered writing |
|
|
| Nonpoetic writing |
|
|
| Essayist's writing |
|
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| Flowery writing |
|
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| Everyday writing |
|
|
| Poetry's opposite |
Universal |
12 Dec 2017 |
| Speaker's arguments for ordinary writing |
|
|
| Everyday language |
USA Today |
07 Sep 2017 |
| Plain writing |
Wall Street Journal |
24 Jun 2017 |
| Novelist's output |
Wall Street Journal |
19 Jun 2017 |
| Page by girl, not poetic writing |
|
|
| Novel writing |
New York Times |
04 May 2017 |
| Much writing |
Thomas Joseph |
13 Jan 2017 |
| Poetry's opposite |
|
|
| Novel writing |
|
|
| Everyday language |
|
|
| Rhyme-free writing |
Universal |
14 Dec 2016 |
| Most text |
|
|
| Experts on English translation exercise |
The Times Cryptic |
25 Nov 2016 |
| Experts on English translation exercise |
|
|
| Simple writing |
Universal |
17 Nov 2016 |
| Advantages with European plain speaking |
The Times Cryptic |
09 Nov 2016 |
| Language test went up by a penny |
|
|
| Essay makeup |
LA Times Daily |
21 Oct 2016 |
| 'Always be a poet, even in ___': Baudelaire |
New York Times |
09 Oct 2016 |
| Literary genre |
The Guardian Quick |
02 Jul 2016 |
| Ordinary writing |
Wall Street Journal |
27 Jun 2016 |
| Plain speaking |
Newsday |
13 Mar 2016 |
| Regular writing |
Universal |
10 Mar 2016 |
| It may be purple |
Wall Street Journal |
05 Mar 2016 |
| Plain writing |
Eugene Sheffer |
08 Feb 2016 |
| Arguments supporting point in plain speaking? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
11 Jan 2016 |
| Rhyme-free writing |
|
|
| Essay makeup |
|
|
| "Always be a poet, even in ___": Baudelaire |
|
|
| Poetry's counterpart |
Thomas Joseph |
29 Oct 2015 |
| Commonplace writing |
Universal |
19 Oct 2015 |
| Everyday writing |
Newsday |
12 Oct 2015 |
| Poetry initially became prominent -- in place of this? |
The Telegraph Toughie |
07 Oct 2015 |
| Quiet girl offers dull discourse |
The Times Cryptic |
29 Sep 2015 |
| Subject's flat |
|
|
| Plain-old paragraph |
Newsday |
06 Aug 2015 |
| Experts' sound writing style |
|
|
| Everyday speech |
Newsday |
06 May 2015 |
| Everyday writing |
Eugene Sheffer |
30 Apr 2015 |
| Everyday speech |
|
|
| Regular writing |
|
|
| Ordinary writing |
|
|
| Everyday writing |
|
|
| Plain-old paragraph |
|
|
| Commonplace writing |
|
|
| Ordinary writing from professionals reportedly |
|
|
| Writing style |
|
|
| Standard paragraphs |
|
|
| Ordinary language |
|
|
| Matter-of-fact writing |
|
|
| Plain writing |
|
|
| The written word |
|
|
| It couldn't be verse |
|
|
| Plain English |
|
|
| Ordinary language |
|
|
| Commonplace writing |
|
|
| Typical writing |
|
|
| The written word |
|
|
| "Purple" writing |
|
|
| Ordinary language |
|
|
| Novel writing, e.g. |
|
|
| Novel material |
|
|
| It's polished at one's desk |
|
|
| Most writing |
|
|
| Conversational literature |
|
|
| Plain writing |
|
|
| Rhyme-free writing |
|
|
| Most writing |
|
|
| Ordinary language |
|
|
| Plain speaking |
|
|
| Everyday writing |
|
|
| Ordinary writing |
|
|
| Regular writing |
|
|
| It's unmetered |
|
|
| "Purple" writing |
|
|
| Ordinary lines |
|
|
| Plain talk |
|
|
| Ordinary language |
|
|
| Matter-of-fact writing |
|
|
| Novelist's output |
|
|
| Writing without feet? |
|
|
| Nonpoetic writing |
|
|
| Regular writing |
|
|
| Everyday speech |
|
|
| Nonpoetic writing |
|
|
| Plain writing |
|
|
| Purple ___ (flowery writing) |
|
|
| Plain English |
|
|
| Simple writing |
|
|
| Ordinary talk |
|
|
| London lines |
|
|
| Not poetry |
|
|
| Nonpoetic writing |
|
|
| Most writing |
|
|
| Essayist's output |
|
|
| It may be purple |
|
|
| Plain talk |
|
|
| Everyday speech |
|
|
| Not poetry |
|
|
| Without rhyme, but with reason |
|
|
| Purple stuff, perhaps |
|
|
| Ordinary language |
|
|
| Unshowy writing |
|
|
| Regular writing |
|
|
| Text |
|
|
| Plain writing |
|
|
| Plain English |
|
|
| Ordinary writing |
|
|
| Nonpoetic writing |
|
|
| Verse inverse? |
|
|
| Form of writing |
|
|
| Everyday text |
|
|
| Essay, say |
|
|
| Novel content |
|
|
| Ordinary writing |
|
|
| Plain writing |
|
|
| "Purple" writing |
|
|
| Plain writing |
|
|
| Essay, say |
|
|
| Plain writing |
|
|
| It's "architecture, not interior decoration": Hemingway |
|
|
| Unlike most of Shakespeare |
|
|
| It's "architecture, not interior decoration": Hemingway |
|
|
| Unlike most of Shakespeare |
|
|
| It's unmetered |
|
|
| Ordinary words |
|
|
| Written language |
|
|
| Writing style |
|
|
| Twain lines |
|
|
| Poetry alternative |
|
|
| Form of writing |
|
|
| Common speech |
|
|
| Genre of novels and essays |
|
|
| It's no verse |
|
|
| An essayist's work is in it |
|
|
| Writing lacking meter |
|
|
| Everyday language |
|
|
| Ordinary language form |
|
|
| Writing |
|
|
| Ordinary language |
|
|
| Regular writing |
|
|
| Spoken language |
|
|
| Unmetered writing |
|
|
| Unmetered writing |
|
|
| Novel or essay |
|
|
| Novel material |
|
|
| Ordinary speech |
|
|
| Ordinary language |
|
|
| Writing that's not in verse |
|
|
| It's not poetry |
|
|
| Nonmetric writing |
|
|
| Plain talk |
|
|
| Ordinary writing |
|
|
| Verse's converse |
|
|
| Writing |
|
|
| Everday writing |
|
|
| Normal speech |
|
|
| Nonpoetic writing |
|
|
| Everyday writing |
|
|
| Simple writing |
|
|
| Plain speaking |
|
|
| "Purple" writing |
|
|
| Ordinary writing, as opposed to poetry |
|
|
| Spoken language |
|
|
| Novel medium |
|
|
| Medium for Grisham |
|
|
| Poetry alternative |
|
|
| Unmetrical language |
|
|
| Poetry's opposite |
|
|
| Ordinary writing |
|
|
| Text |
|
|
| Rhythm-free writing |
|
|
| It's unmetered |
|
|
| The written word |
|
|
| Written language |
|
|
| Writing |
|
|
| Unversed? |
|
|
| Ordinary language |
|
|
| Style of writing |
|
|
| Written language |
|
|
| Stories |
|
|
| Ordinary lines |
|
|
| Ordinary talk |
|
|
| Ordinary language |
|
|
| Mailer's output |
|
|
| What people speak |
|
|
| Hawthorne's forte |
|
|
| Thackeray's forte |
|
|
| Plain language |
|
|
| Ordinary speech |
|
|
| Henry James's forte |
|
|
| Proust product |
|
|
| Everyday writing |
|
|
| Journalese, e.g. |
|
|
| Malamud's forte |
|
|
| Oates output |
|
|
| Journalese |
|
|
| Some literature |
|
|
| Book fare |
|
|
| Matter-of-fact language |
|
|
| Flaubert's forte |
|
|
| Bacon's forte |
|
|
| Dull discourse |
|
|
| Writing medium |
|
|
| Writing field |
|
|
| Purple or measured |
|
|
| Literary medium |
|
|
| Joyce's forte |
|
|
| Literary output |
|
|
| Writing form |
|
|
| Some writing |
|
|
| "Words in their best order."—Coleridge. |
|
|
| Ordinary talk. |
|
|
| Reporter's product. |
|
|
| Churchill's forte. |
|
|
| Ordinary speech or language. |
|
|
| Matter-of-fact discourse. |
|
|
| Man's ordinary speech. |
|
|
| Genus of literature. |
|
|
| Form of ordinary language |
|
|
| Fiction, biography, etc. |
|
|
| ___ poem. |
|
|
| Ordinary writing. |
|
|
| Kind of writing. |
|
|
| Not poetry. |
|
|
| Type of writing. |
|
|
| Plain talk. |
|
|
| Some writing. |
|
|
| Forte of 133 Across. |
|
|
| Writer's work. |
|
|
| Sometimes purple output |
|
|
| Novelist's forte. |
|
|
| Literary medium. |
|
|
| Unimpassioned discourse. |
|
|
| Literary output. |
|
|
| Ordinary. |
|
|
| Speak tediously. |
|
|
| Plainness. |
|
|
| Ordinary language. |
|
|
| Literary form. |
|
|
| Essayist's concern. |
|
|
| Unimaginative discourse. |
|
|
| Writing. |
|
|
| Bacon's forte. |
|
|
| Everyday language. |
|
|
| Essayist's specialty. |
|
|
| Writer's style |
|
|
| Novelist's work. |
|
|
| Faulkner's forte. |
|
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| Form of writing. |
|
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| All speech and most writing. |
|
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