There are several other Jumble blogs, but the ones I checked all started off by listing the answers. In this blog, answers can be either hinted at or masked by burying them in comments. No overt spoilers!
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Vern Jewels reported on the Adventurers Club debate On whether a Northwest Passage was real or a fake. At last stood Captain Blover, "I will prove it's there, And not some bogus fairy tale, made of just thin air!"
So with the Club's support they outfitted him ship, With a mother-lode of supplies for the fateful trip! The Captain set his bearings for the Bering Strait, Where he would start his search for the open gate.
What he found was The Mackerel out of Maine. Ice-bound, the fishing vessel had crossed the icy plain. In the galley, one last turnip. The crew as statues frozen. The floe held up the leaky ship across the Arctic Ocean!
As I read the poem, I wondered how you would fit that third clue into the story. But you sure did! Ingenious as ever.
The jumble was not too difficult, though I had to think about that third clue word for a minute. And I was briefly led down the garden path with the first solution word, despite the fact that the one I wanted would not be allowable in two places. But then, aha! I saw where that extra "e" must fit. Fun jumble.
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Vern Jewels reported on the Adventurers Club debate
ReplyDeleteOn whether a Northwest Passage was real or a fake.
At last stood Captain Blover, "I will prove it's there,
And not some bogus fairy tale, made of just thin air!"
So with the Club's support they outfitted him ship,
With a mother-lode of supplies for the fateful trip!
The Captain set his bearings for the Bering Strait,
Where he would start his search for the open gate.
What he found was The Mackerel out of Maine.
Ice-bound, the fishing vessel had crossed the icy plain.
In the galley, one last turnip. The crew as statues frozen.
The floe held up the leaky ship across the Arctic Ocean!
I used a hint on the first letter of 4 and the S, but it came easily.
ReplyDeleteAs I read the poem, I wondered how you would fit that third clue into the story. But you sure did! Ingenious as ever.
ReplyDeleteThe jumble was not too difficult, though I had to think about that third clue word for a minute. And I was briefly led down the garden path with the first solution word, despite the fact that the one I wanted would not be allowable in two places. But then, aha! I saw where that extra "e" must fit. Fun jumble.