“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
a dozen, a gross, and a score, plus three times the square root of four, divided by seven, plus five times eleven, equals nine squared plus zero, no more.
I love crosswords... only I'm terrible at them. Were it not for the "Clear all Errors" button on my IPad Ap, I'd never complete one....
Okay, the old family line... the 12 tribes of Israel? (Of which Levi made 13 ... + 2 independent tribes unmentioned)... but the 5-2-6 as letters would be e-b-f...? but backward and subtract one would be Gad?
Are you trying to turn Halloween into HELLoween?
ReplyDeleteOr maybe Hello, Weed?
In either case you've succeeded admirably.
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~ FT
Thanks FT. :O Boo!
ReplyDeleteI much prefer "Thriller."
ReplyDeleteThen perhaps you'd enjoy Lindsey... ;)
ReplyDeleteOne in a dozen old family lines (13)
ReplyDeleteStirling?
ReplyDeleteNah. 13 letters. Actually 5-2-6.
ReplyDeleteSorry, you are speaking WAY over my head.
ReplyDeletea dozen, a gross, and a score,
ReplyDeleteplus three times the square root of four,
divided by seven,
plus five times eleven,
equals nine squared plus zero, no more.
But i thought you liked crosswords. It's a crossword clue.
ReplyDeleteI love crosswords... only I'm terrible at them. Were it not for the "Clear all Errors" button on my IPad Ap, I'd never complete one....
ReplyDeleteOkay, the old family line... the 12 tribes of Israel? (Of which Levi made 13 ... + 2 independent tribes unmentioned)... but the 5-2-6 as letters would be e-b-f...? but backward and subtract one would be Gad?
Twelve tribes of Israel: hence the answer: tribe-of-israel (5-2-6)
ReplyDeleteno, no, 13 were the number of letters in the answer. Just that.
ReplyDeleteI would have gone for 17, "Dan"...
ReplyDeleteSee here. ;)
It was from yesterday's crossword in TOI (Times of India) here. There were three such similar clues.
ReplyDeleteOne in a dozen difficult jobs (15) (labourofhercules);
One in a dozen constellations (15)(signofthezodiac); and the one above.
lol.
ReplyDeleteNot labour, labor.
ReplyDelete...and the poem I enclosed "above" represents the overarching "theme" of the crossword that you just described. ;)
ReplyDeletethat's gross!
twelve dozen is a gross, and twelve gross are called a great gross.
(from the LA Times)
lol. Yes. But the i liked best was this (from the same puzzle): "Nothing is stopping us" (4)
ReplyDeleteI give up.
ReplyDeleteYes! ;)
ReplyDeleteAnswer is: lets.
I was anticipating something a little more "physical"...
ReplyDeletelike some obscure Latin or Greek synonym for "perpetual motion"
You are incorrigible. ;)
ReplyDeleteI try! ;)
ReplyDeleteI think the most important question here is: Why does a skeleton need socks and shoes to moonwalk?
ReplyDeleteProduct placement royalties? ;)
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