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Poetry day midi 2024 (UK)

◆ · By Puzzled in CNY · Published 2024-10-02T23:15:34.931Z

Constructor's Note
Happy poetry day! It's technically a UK holiday but there's no reason we can't all celebrate poetry!Thursday October 3, 2024(I will still use USA spellings....) All uncredited rhymes and limericks are mine, I apologize in advance.
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  • Cruciverb Maximus 🤓2:42 · 2024-10-02T23:41:45.858Z
    That is definitely a poetry theme :-)
    • Puzzled in CNY constructor · 2024-10-03T21:16:18.403Z
      I certainly tried :-)
    • Echser 4:59 · 2024-10-03T15:41:11.236Z
      i had PEEM for 1A... what is wrong with me
      • Puzzled in CNY constructor · 2024-10-03T21:16:32.773Z
        Maybe it's also national peem day!
      • Parker 13:12 · 2024-10-11T07:42:40.749Z
        Little late to the party. Loved this one so much! Very clever. Also hard to do with your lash falling asleep on you, lol
        • Puzzled in CNY constructor · 2024-10-11T11:36:05.291Z
          Thank you! I was only barely able to squeeze Abou Ben Adhem in there but I managed lol. And longer solves are just getting your money's worth!
        Play today's daily mini crossword
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        A reason for the season (10/3/24)
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        1. 1A
          A reason for the season (10/3/24)
        2. 5A
          A teenager found himself waiting/for movies to go to while dating/not yet seventeen, /the movies he'd seen/they'd given a G-PG rating
        3. 9A
          If you want your gun to go blammo, you better put in some _____
        4. 10A
          " Perched upon a __ of Pallas just above my chamber door- Perched, and sat, and nothing more." - Edgar Allan Poe
        5. 11A
          What the poets in the title of a 1989 Robin Williams movie had all done
        6. 12A
          You may, or may not, know-a/this capital of Samoa
        7. 13A
          Mahler's soul away did float/when he got this in his throat
        8. 15A
          If your resumé or lingerie are empty, and you're mad/don't agonize, just realize, it may be time to ___
        9. 16A
          "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,And live alone in the bee-loud ___." - William Butler Yeats
        10. 18A
          Before, in a poem. I try to avoid this clue/answer combo but it's poetry day!!
        11. 20A
          Rhythmic structure of a poem
        12. 23A
          A Hawaiian goose is on the loose
        13. 25A
          Either -nautic, OR -dynamic; if I can just be blunt/It doesn't really matter to this word that goes in front
        14. 26A
          It's a slide SHOW, bozo, you've really got my goat!/Call it a __ again, and I'll punch you in the throat
        15. 27A
          Hawaii's full of happy days/of luaus, beaches, sea, and ____
        16. 28A
          "Sing me a song, of a lass that is gone, say could that lass be I? Merry of soul, she sailed on a day, over the sea to ____" - Outlander theme (old Scottish folk song)
        17. 29A
          "I think that I shall never see/a poem lovely as a ____" - Joyce Kilmer
        Down
        1. 1D
          Despite the NFL's discussion/these don't prevent concussion
        2. 2D
          When in doubt, leave it out
        3. 3D
          This is the "E"/in "EMT"
        4. 4D
          There ain't no doubt about it, honey/The ___ -T made Ford some money
        5. 5D
          A business degree/For managers and owners/It's an ____ guest haiku clue by Dr. L. O.
        6. 6D
          "Oh hail the master _________, Controller of the strings. The altruistic engineer, Sagaciousness he brings." - Norma Pain
        7. 7D
          Continent where "Abou Ben Adhem" was probably set (my favorite poem)
        8. 8D
          "The climate is a-changin', does that kind of make you sad?/I don't think so, not really, no...well, maybe just _ ___"
        9. 14D
          Just give a spray/from out this can/so food won't stay/inside your pan
        10. 17D
          "He who smelt it, ____ it" - flatulence adage
        11. 18D
          "This is the way the world ___/not with a bang but a whimper" -T.S. Eliot
        12. 19D
          Stink (rhymes with 24d)
        13. 21D
          "I've got a mule, her name is sal, fifteen miles on the ____ canal" - old New York State (USA) folk song
        14. 22D
          "O my luve's like a red, red ___" - Robert Burns
        15. 24D
          With "out", make a living laboriously (rhymes with 19d)
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