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Riddle-cryptic 51

· By Hydrologist Guy · Published 2024-11-02T10:45:08.545Z

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  • Teresa Koster 🤓2:37 · 2024-11-02T23:08:05.400Z
    Congrats on your 50th puzzle! I must have missed that one!
    • Hydrologist Guy constructor · 2024-11-03T17:59:16.531Z
      Thanks! There will be a big party at 100!
    • rjy 🤓4:40 · 2024-11-03T03:18:23.438Z
      Fun one, Mr Guy!
      • Hydrologist Guy constructor · 2024-11-03T17:59:47.693Z
        Thanks! And no need to be so formal. My friends call me Hy-Guy!
      • Byron 🤓4:30 · 2024-11-07T15:40:16.508Z
        I must correct you. It's "Reverend" Al Green. :-)
        • El Gordo 42 🤓2:30 · 2024-11-07T15:29:36.471Z
          Such fun, thanks!
          • jonny 🤓5:57 · 2024-11-07T18:47:53.342Z
            None of them were too obvious, but all had the exciting spark of an "a-ha" moment when solved. Very clever!
            1A
            What does our pastor eat for breakfast? Why is his necktie green? / Here's a word that describes these questions, as well as a rural scene.
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            1. 1A
              What does our pastor eat for breakfast? Why is his necktie green? / Here's a word that describes these questions, as well as a rural scene.
            2. 6A
              Take a word for compelling charm, and pluralize it here. / It kinda sounds like a holiday that's found near the end of the year.
            3. 7A
              Turned the other way, like "mho" turned into "ohm". / Or could it mean "rewrote a lyric or part of a sonnet or poem?"
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            1. 1D
              The tooth kind helps you clean your teeth. The ice kind chips at ice. / Don't do this to a pocket; that wouldn't be so nice.
            2. 2D
              Those dogs playing poker -- when they see this on a card, might it spark in them some consternation? I mean, it sounds like a word that might bring to mind an uncomfortable dog operation.
            3. 3D
              A poetic command to embrace one's life -- to exult in its joys and its toil! / Alternatively, it's a fruit-laden tree. Those fruits make an excellent oil...
            4. 4D
              It's a word meaning pinnacles, the highest of points, the highest possible positions. / Change the M to an N, and what do you get? Why, teenage skin conditions!
            5. 5D
              It's housed in housed, it's perused in perused. And here's another clue: / It describes an automobile that's up for sale and that's seen a mile or two.
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