| PlusWord No 1180 solution |
The Telegraph Plusword |
14 Aug 2025 |
| Correspondence: Henry in line with the writer |
The Times Cryptic |
30 Jul 2025 |
| Even men may charm and reply in verse (5) |
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| Verse or piece of poetry (5) |
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| Lot missing from unsound motherly verse (5) |
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| Factor negative or positive? At the end of the day, to me they sound similar (5) |
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| Feature of poetry by Yeats, perhaps or Frost, reportedly |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
21 Jun 2025 |
| Totally senseless: without - or reason |
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| Feature of much verse and church music, mostly used in religious studies |
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| My! Her awful verse! (5) |
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| What "wine" and "dine" do |
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| It might liken vanity to insanity (5) |
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| ___ or reason, expression meaning 'sensible explanation' (5) |
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| Poem Frost read out? (5) |
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| Song about her? My creation (5) |
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| What "miss you" and "this clue" do |
USA Today |
06 May 2025 |
| Sounds like - hoar frost perhaps (5) |
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| Four and score, for example |
USA Today |
20 Apr 2025 |
| Her and my composition sound the same (5) |
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| No ____ or reason |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
09 Apr 2025 |
| Piece of verse |
Puzzler Backwords |
08 Apr 2025 |
| What "fair" and "square" do |
Universal |
27 Feb 2025 |
| Verse |
Mirror Tea Time |
16 Feb 2025 |
| Pay for play, e.g. |
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| Gin variant tastes like a daiquiri? (5) |
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| Used by a frosty poet? Sounds like it (5) |
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| Give her my form that will do so with Maugham (5) |
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| Verse (5) |
Puzzler |
26 Jan 2025 |
| Verse - and what it may well do (5) |
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| Sound like time? (5) |
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| Have the same end-sound (5) |
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| A pronounced similarity? (5) |
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| Sound the same |
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| A poem with repetition of similar sounds, usually at the end of alternate lines (5) |
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| Nursery poem said in a frosty way? (5) |
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| Verse having the same sound at the end of the lines (5) |
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| A jingle |
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| Verse or poetry (5) |
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| Nursery - - -, children's verse (5) |
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| Archly, Amber regularly ignored what Larry and Barry do |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
30 Dec 2024 |
| Short piece of verse; jingle |
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| Come to a similar conclusion, soundly (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
23 Dec 2024 |
| PlusWord No 944 solution |
The Telegraph Plusword |
21 Dec 2024 |
| Nursery ___, poem for young children (5) |
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| Poem caused by my, her confusion (5) |
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| (Of two words) end with a similar sound |
The Times Concise |
14 Dec 2024 |
| I gave her my rewritten poem (5) |
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| Focus of recording before Herb Alpert finally cut verse |
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| With no __ or reason |
Commuter |
29 Nov 2024 |
| Limerick feature |
Eugene Sheffer |
07 Nov 2024 |
| Goes with time, but the verse could be worse (5) |
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| Reason partner |
Newsday |
27 Oct 2024 |
| Frost recited - his composition? |
The Times Cryptic |
25 Oct 2024 |
| Make verses do so with time (5) |
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| Poetic feature, note, about most of hymn (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
12 Oct 2024 |
| Feature of some poems |
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| Correspond in sound |
The Sun Two Speed |
07 Oct 2024 |
| Frost recited poem |
The Sun Two Speed |
07 Oct 2024 |
| Go to show, e.g.? |
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| Limerick feature |
Newsday |
06 Oct 2024 |
| Give her my rewritten poem (5) |
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| Rap lines usually do this |
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| Verse |
Mirror Tea Time |
21 Sep 2024 |
| Frost produced something that sounds like it |
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| Keats and Yeats used it but provide no example (5) |
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| Simple verse |
Mirror Classic |
10 Sep 2024 |
| Nursery jingle (5) |
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| There's no explanation for being without it, or reason (5) |
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| Verse |
Puzzler Backwords |
19 Aug 2024 |
| Share the same end-sound (5) |
Puzzler |
08 Aug 2024 |
| Nursery ___, poem for kids |
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| Sound of poetry (5) |
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| Short poem |
The Sun Two Speed |
26 Jul 2024 |
| What she and he do in verse? |
The Sun Two Speed |
26 Jul 2024 |
| Short piece of verse (5) |
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| Poem having the same sound at the end of lines (5) |
Puzzler |
11 Jul 2024 |
| Reintroduced endless devotional song with similar sound (5) |
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| Come to a similar conclusion (5) |
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| A poet's race for place, for example (5) |
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| Verse of poem |
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| Frost narrated a piece of poetry (5) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
27 Jun 2024 |
| Come to a similar conclusion, say |
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| Nursery ___-- , children's verse |
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| Poem having the same sound at the end of lines (5) |
Puzzler |
12 Jun 2024 |
| What "easy" and "breezy" do |
Newsday |
15 May 2024 |
| Mother Goose poem |
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| Poetic creation |
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| Children's verse: nursery - |
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| "Door hinge," for "orange" ... sort of |
New York Times Mini |
15 Apr 2024 |
| Limerick part |
Thomas Joseph |
09 Apr 2024 |
| Give her my version of what seesaw does for Marjorie Daw (5) |
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| Verse |
Mirror Tea Time |
02 Apr 2024 |
| What birds and nerds do |
LA Times Mini |
30 Mar 2024 |
| Pay to play, e.g. |
LA Times Daily |
28 Mar 2024 |
| Verse about her plans to have my back (5) |
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| Send her my poem (5) |
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| Simple poem |
The Times Concise |
11 Mar 2024 |
| Come to a similar conclusion, we hear (5) |
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| Frost, for the audience, producing poetry |
The Telegraph Toughie |
07 Mar 2024 |
| Frost, for the audience, producing poetry (5) |
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| Clue and shoe, for example |
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| Give her my new poem (5) |
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| Moving Her - my simple poem (5) |
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| Verse or poem |
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| Frost's heard what Frost wrote |
The Guardian Cryptic |
21 Feb 2024 |
| Any verse or piece of poetry (5) |
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| What blank verse lacks |
Newsday |
18 Feb 2024 |
| Sound found, bound to resound? |
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| Melodious sound (5) |
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| Word before scheme, in English class |
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| Reason counterpart |
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| Verse, it might be expected to do this (5) |
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| Feature of many a poem? "Hard to fill lines" - the writer |
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| Limerick feature |
Eugene Sheffer |
29 Dec 2023 |
| Without . . . or reason (5) |
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| Poem having the same sound at the end of lines (5) |
Puzzler |
20 Dec 2023 |
| Piece of poetry |
Mirror Classic |
18 Dec 2023 |
| Poetry |
Mirror Tea Time |
18 Dec 2023 |
| What Dr. Seuss stories do |
Family Time |
11 Dec 2023 |
| What some poems do (but Yeats and Keats don't?) |
The Guardian Speedy |
10 Dec 2023 |
| What some poems do (but Yeats and Keats don't?) (5) |
|
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| What moles and voles do? |
Universal |
05 Dec 2023 |
| Without or reason (5) |
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| No ___ or reason |
New York Times |
13 Nov 2023 |
| Sound alike |
LA Times Daily |
13 Nov 2023 |
| Trample, for example |
Wall Street Journal |
09 Oct 2023 |
| (Of two words) end with a similar sound |
The Times Concise |
12 Aug 2023 |
| ___ or reason (good sense) |
Universal |
07 Aug 2023 |
| What blank verse doesn't do |
Newsday |
25 Jun 2023 |
| "No ___ or reason" |
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| What friends and fiends don't do |
Newsday |
12 May 2023 |
| Poem |
The Telegraph Quick |
12 May 2023 |
| Sound similar, like "sister" and "mister" |
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| Recital of Frost's poetry |
The Guardian Cryptic |
23 Mar 2023 |
| Piece of verse |
The Telegraph Quick |
06 Mar 2023 |
| What free-verse poetry often lacks |
USA Today |
28 Dec 2022 |
| What Harry and Larry do with Barry |
The Guardian Speedy |
11 Dec 2022 |
| What "class" and "glass" do |
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| Sound similar, like "rock" and "sock" |
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| Looking for cooking, say |
Wall Street Journal |
18 Nov 2022 |
| Verse typified by poet: know it? |
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| Poetry heard in prime time |
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| Poetry heard in prime time |
The Guardian Quiptic |
17 Oct 2022 |
| In recital, Frost or Pound will do this with sound |
The Guardian Cryptic |
24 Aug 2022 |
| Verse Frost recited? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
22 Aug 2022 |
| What Prancer and Dancer do that Rudolph and Vixen don't? |
New York Times |
25 Jul 2022 |
| Ample or sample, for example |
USA Today |
07 Jun 2022 |
| Lyricist's quest |
Newsday |
24 Apr 2022 |
| What's done for fun? |
The Washington Post |
20 Mar 2022 |
| What's done for fun? |
LA Times Daily |
20 Mar 2022 |
| Recital of Frost's poetry |
The Times Cryptic |
09 Mar 2022 |
| "No ___ or reason" |
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| Confusing her with my poem |
|
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| Feature of Mike and Ike candy? |
LA Times Daily |
26 Jan 2022 |
| Feature of Mike and Ike candy? |
The Washington Post |
26 Jan 2022 |
| Short poem |
The Times Concise |
18 Jan 2022 |
| A measure of frost, for example, in Limerick |
Irish Times Crosaire |
27 Dec 2021 |
| Poem feature |
Thomas Joseph |
24 Dec 2021 |
| Verse |
The Telegraph Quick |
15 Nov 2021 |
| Correspondence in sounds of word |
Irish Times Simplex |
05 Nov 2021 |
| Limerick feature |
Eugene Sheffer |
07 Oct 2021 |
| Short poem |
The Times Concise |
31 Aug 2021 |
| Verse |
The Telegraph Quick |
29 Aug 2021 |
| Limerick jingle |
Irish Times Simplex |
12 Aug 2021 |
| Limerick feature |
Eugene Sheffer |
09 Jul 2021 |
| Short poem |
The Times Concise |
12 May 2021 |
| Crazy for Swayze? |
Wall Street Journal |
26 Apr 2021 |
| Short poem |
The Sun Two Speed |
25 Apr 2021 |
| Cats and rats do this? |
The Sun Two Speed |
25 Apr 2021 |
| Rap, per old-school rappers |
New York Times |
19 Mar 2021 |
| What Tina must do with Sheena? |
The Sun Two Speed |
18 Mar 2021 |
| King becomes husband in merry cycling verse |
The Telegraph Toughie |
06 Jan 2021 |
| Verse |
The Telegraph Quick |
28 Oct 2020 |
| Reason colleague |
Newsday |
23 Oct 2020 |
| What she and he do in verse? |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 Oct 2020 |
| Go with the flow, maybe? |
Jonesin |
04 Aug 2020 |
| ''Partridge,'' to ''cartridge'' |
Newsday |
29 Jul 2020 |
| Correspondence in word sounds |
Irish Times Simplex |
25 Jul 2020 |
| See 26 Down |
Newsday |
24 Jul 2020 |
| Product of poet — Frost, by the sound of it |
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| A sound agreement? |
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| Poem of Frost broadcast on the radio |
The Telegraph Toughie |
18 Mar 2020 |
| Poetry |
The Times Concise |
05 Jan 2020 |
| What "wine" and "dine" do |
|
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| Identical-sounding (like cats and rats) |
|
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| Verse |
The Times Concise |
03 Aug 2019 |
| ''Moon'' or ''June,'' to ''tune'' |
Newsday |
09 Jul 2019 |
| Frost said something read |
The Telegraph Toughie |
05 Jul 2019 |
| End with a similar sound |
The Times Concise |
03 Jul 2019 |
| What blank verse lacks |
Newsday |
28 Jun 2019 |
| Nursery poem? |
The Telegraph Quick |
14 Jun 2019 |
| Boots taken from mother's boy in Limerick |
Irish Times Crosaire |
07 Jun 2019 |
| Use words that sound alike, in a poem perhaps |
|
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| What "wine" and "dine" do |
|
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| Frost reciting his poem? |
|
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| Pay for play |
New York Times |
18 Apr 2019 |
| What many poems do |
|
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| Verse from sacred song mostly used in school class |
|
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| "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star," for one |
|
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| Pay for play |
|
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| Done for one, for one |
Jonesin |
18 Dec 2018 |
| Be like 'cat' and 'mat' |
The Telegraph Quick |
14 Dec 2018 |
| What limericks do |
Universal |
29 Nov 2018 |
| Correspondence of word sounds |
The Guardian Speedy |
25 Nov 2018 |
| What poems do |
Family Time |
26 Aug 2018 |
| What good poems do |
Family Time |
08 Jul 2018 |
| A feature of curse verse? Right pulp needing no intro |
|
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| What sun and fun do |
Eugene Sheffer |
22 May 2018 |
| Frost Report seen at 9? |
|
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| What ''easy'' and ''breezy'' do |
Newsday |
07 May 2018 |
| What pay-day may do |
|
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| Poem of Frost read aloud |
|
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| What bats and cats do |
Eugene Sheffer |
13 Apr 2018 |
| Repetition of similar sounds in two or more words |
The Telegraph General Knowledge |
01 Apr 2018 |
| What the puzzle's keywords each lack |
Newsday |
16 Mar 2018 |
| Piece of poetry |
The Times Concise |
11 Mar 2018 |
| Frost, perhaps, recited poem |
|
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| What the first, second and fifth lines in a limerick do |
New York Times |
26 Feb 2018 |
| Rough stuff, for instance -- word that finds partner in crime? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
21 Feb 2018 |
| Limerick part |
Thomas Joseph |
10 Feb 2018 |
| Fun, for one |
New York Times |
07 Feb 2018 |
| He, to she |
USA Today |
07 Feb 2018 |
| Limerick, for example |
Newsday |
02 Jan 2018 |
| Fun, for one |
|
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| What limericks do |
|
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| He, to she |
|
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| What the first, second and fifth lines in a limerick do |
|
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| What Tarun and Varun do about entertaining Hyma no end |
|
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| Take the rap? |
Jonesin |
12 Dec 2017 |
| Slip her my poem |
|
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| What cats, bats and rats do? |
USA Today |
28 Sep 2017 |
| . Song about censoring unfinished song |
|
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| Nursery verse? |
The Telegraph Quick |
23 Jun 2017 |
| A feature of sonnets by Frost say |
|
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| What Bill and Jill do |
Universal |
25 Apr 2017 |
| What hares and mares do |
The Washington Post |
18 Apr 2017 |
| What hares and mares do |
LA Times Daily |
18 Apr 2017 |
| Dumb, for some, e.g |
Universal |
25 Mar 2017 |
| Thing that Dr. Seuss liked to do |
Universal |
10 Mar 2017 |
| What Box and Cox do about hosting Carol no end |
|
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| Verse initially reconciling him, you and me |
|
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| What hares and mares do |
|
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| Thing that Dr. Seuss liked to do |
|
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| What Bill and Jill do |
|
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| What cats, bats and rats do? |
|
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| What's first apparent in rip, hip and yip - me? |
|
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| Have correspondence at the end? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
10 Dec 2016 |
| Poem feature |
Thomas Joseph |
15 Sep 2016 |
| What poets generally do, Keats and Yeats don't |
|
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| Pay, for play |
The Washington Post |
27 Jul 2016 |
| __ scheme |
LA Times Daily |
09 Jul 2016 |
| Lines from The Frost Report |
|
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| What cats and rats do? |
Universal |
18 Feb 2016 |
| It does, with time |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
15 Feb 2016 |
| Frost broadcast jingle |
The Telegraph Toughie |
10 Feb 2016 |
| Quart, for short? |
Wall Street Journal |
26 Jan 2016 |
| __ scheme |
|
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| What cats and rats do? |
|
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| Jingle |
The Telegraph Quick |
29 Dec 2015 |
| Court, for short |
New York Times |
27 Dec 2015 |
| Limerick, say, by Frost, say |
|
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| Crumb, for some |
Newsday |
15 Nov 2015 |
| What Q and U do |
USA Today |
12 Nov 2015 |
| Bit of poetry |
Premier Sunday |
18 Oct 2015 |
| What sounds like Frost's poem |
The Times Cryptic |
29 Sep 2015 |
| Rapper's skill |
Premier Sunday |
27 Sep 2015 |
| Hot to trot, e.g |
New York Times |
01 Sep 2015 |
| Match ends of 'star' and 'catarrh', say? 'Hum' and 'come'? |
|
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| What limericks do |
USA Today |
07 May 2015 |
| Pay and play, as an example of this |
|
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| On about short religious song's word pattern |
The Times Cryptic |
22 Jan 2015 |
| Verse of detailed song in religious education |
|
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| Crumb, for some |
|
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| What limericks do |
|
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| What Q and U do |
|
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| Pay to play, e.g. |
|
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| Rapper's skill |
|
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| Penny, for many |
|
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| Bit of poetry |
|
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| Hot to trot, e.g. |
|
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| Court, for short |
|
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| Henry in line with me and Charlie Farley for example? |
|
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| Limerick characteristic |
|
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| What he and she do |
|
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| Sample, for example |
|
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| Head to bed? |
|
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| Gum, for some? |
|
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| Sound mostly the same |
|
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| Run, for one |
|
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| Nursery ___ |
|
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| Reason's partner |
|
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| What cats and rats do |
|
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| "... no ___ or reason" |
|
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| What's easier to do with gold than silver? |
|
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| Wynken or Blynken, e.g., but not Nod |
|
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| Verse feature |
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| What Q and U do |
|
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| Limerick feature |
|
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| Mares, to hares |
|
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| Sonnet feature |
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| Sonnet feature |
|
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| Nursery favorite |
|
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| What sun and fun do |
|
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| Norse, for course |
|
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| Group bees with trees? |
|
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| Run, for one? |
|
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| Run, for one? |
|
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| Lyricist's quest |
|
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| Limerick feature |
|
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| Gun, for one |
|
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| What he and she do |
|
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| What cats and bats do |
|
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| What sips and nips do |
|
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| What cats and bats do |
|
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| What sips and nips do |
|
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| Ad slogan, often |
|
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| Limerick, e.g. |
|
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| Greeting-card message, typically |
|
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| Toys for boys? |
|
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| Rum, to some |
|
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| Mother Goose selection |
|
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| Ben and Jen do it with each other |
|
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| What cats and rats do |
|
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| Shun, for one |
|
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| Reason partner |
|
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| Reason mate |
|
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| Pure, for sure |
|
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| Trample, for example |
|
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| Have common ends, in a way |
|
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| "Funny money," for one |
|
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| Sample, for example? |
|
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| Sample, for example? |
|
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| Rum, for some |
|
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| Gun, for one |
|
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| It's hard to do with "orange" |
|
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| Rum, for some |
|
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| Couplet feature |
|
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| Verse |
|
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| "Funny money," e.g. |
|
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| Donne device |
|
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| Trample, for example |
|
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| Sun, for one |
|
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| Sound identity |
|
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| Donne, for one |
|
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| Zachary, for daiquiri, e.g. |
|
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| Sound identity |
|
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| 'Sun,' for 'one' |
|
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| Nash gift |
|
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| Moon to June |
|
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| __ scheme |
|
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| What each of the longest words in 17A, 65A, 10D and 25D famously lacks |
|
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| Kind of scheme |
|
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| Name for game, e.g. |
|
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| Group three with thee? |
|
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| Reason partner |
|
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| Gum, for some |
|
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| Couplet feature |
|
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| What Q and U do |
|
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| What "wine" and "dine" do |
|
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| Couplet feature |
|
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| Verse |
|
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| What Jay and Ray do |
|
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| Dunce, for once |
|
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| What "wine" and "dine" do |
|
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| What Jay and Ray do |
|
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| Dr. Seuss forte |
|
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| What good rap will do |
|
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| Kind of scheme |
|
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| Kind of scheme |
|
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| Reason's mate |
|
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| Versify |
|
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| Reason's mate |
|
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| Write a limerick |
|
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| Sound alike |
|
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| Sound alike |
|
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| Limerick characteristic |
|
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| What 11-Down doesn't do |
|
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| All the best rappers do it |
|
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| Versify |
|
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| Group please with knees? |
|
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| Recital of Frost's poetry |
|
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| Characteristic of this puzzle's theme entries |
|
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| Mate bees with fleas? |
|
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| Important element of rap lyrics |
|
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| Rapper's skill |
|
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| Nursery follower |
|
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| Ditty |
|
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| Versifier's concern |
|
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| Moon/June, e.g. |
|
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| A forte of Ogden Nash |
|
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| What Mike and Ike do |
|
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| Nursery ___ |
|
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| What moon, June and spoon do |
|
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| Nash forte |
|
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| Ogden Nash creation |
|
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| Ogden Nash creation |
|
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| June-moon, e.g. |
|
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| Mother Goose entry |
|
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| Limerick, e.g. |
|
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| June moon or May day, e.g. |
|
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| Poet's concern |
|
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| Poem. |
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| Poetic device. |
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| Reason's partner. |
|
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| June and moon. |
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| Jingle. |
|
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| Nash specialty. |
|
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| What 46 Across and 10 Down do. |
|
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| Reason's companion. |
|
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| "Old King Cole," for instance. |
|
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| Need for speed, e.g. |
|
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| Nursery favorite. |
|
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| Neither ___ nor reason. |
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