| || honey, liner, sculpt, jacket, in a nutshell.
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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed!
Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.
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While traveling one day, Ian in passing fancy
Was sculpting a cloud into goat-kid, prancy.
Then he heard some sobbing from a thicket.
Pushing reeds aside, he saw a girl-sized cricket!
Startled, she looked up, and saw his kindly eyes,
Curious, not frightened, by Nancy's hideous guise.
"Oh, sir," she said with human voice, "you see
I have been cursed because I killed a honey-bee!"
A sorceress of insect spells had kept the bee a pet.
When Nancy wandered by, enjoying her new jacket.
It had a fleecy lining, and had flowers, blue and red,
Which the bee admired, but got him swatted dead!
The sorceress then ensorceled her to a cricket form,
A spell she'd only break for a bug-scale magic charm.
Ian called a dust devil to sprout a tiny storm-cell.
A tempest in a teacup? No, a whirlwind in a walnut shell!
What a fine, compassionate fellow is your Ian, Owen, admirable in his ability to see past Nancy's external form. I thank you for his tale--and for incorporating that lovely word "ensorceled."
Here's an example lacking in compassion:
In RICHARD III, Shakespeare details the murder of Clarence as ordered by Gloucester. The poor duke is drowned in a butt. Well, I should explain, it was a "wine butt," meaning a barrel of the fermented stuff.
What a way for the old sot to go, eh?
~ OMK
My goodness, what clever and cunning and funny productions by both you, Owen, and you, Ol'Man Keith. I got all four words of the Jumble without any problem and the first two letters of the solution, but not the third. Knew I needed blog help for that one. And right there, in your unique poem, Owen, there its was, how swell! And what a clever cartoon solution, as well. Loved the colors of all the different outfits. And the solution cracked me (not the acorn) up.
Is there a sequel to the tale of the unfortunate bee swatter? We've inherited hornets at our new "shack". That's what I call them. Betsy calls them (paper)wasps.
Not much trouble with the J today. Riddle-solution popped right up.
Did I mention my discovery of a Will Shorz 365 days xword book. I got started last night. NYT "medium" can rival Latimes Saturdays.
Clue that I only got this morning: January 2nd?
WC
I was thinking about having Nancy become Ian's girlfriend, but it was already a stanza longer than normal.
Wilbur, if you're going to give a clue outside of a puzzle, you really ought to at least give a letter count.
January 2nd (6,1) = LETTER A.
Owen, I fell asleep and forgot. Thanks for picking up on that. Your experience as an XWer worked.
The clue I believe was in Will Shorz's Crossword annual. The answer was ALEPH which is the Hebrew A. Filled entirely by perps.
It appeared in the group of puzzles labeled "Medium Difficulty". BTW, there was a Jeff Wesch in there and I'll bet there's a CC too, though I'm only at the beginning.
WC
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