To everyone’s relief, it looks as if the gentleman with the rabbit in a hat has finally DONE THE TRICK. Cue the swirling cape and the white doves: A “ charming magician” has entered the chat.
The first is a “ fun couch potato” - no judgment, things just DIDNT WORK OUT the second is a “ recluse” - as you can imagine, that romance CAME TO NOTHING.įortunately for all of us, our picky friend finally meets a match at 110-Across. The next two theme clues, at 28-Across and 48-Across, highlight characteristics in two guys that can coexist in one person (speaking from experience). On the one hand, I’m all for freedom of religion on the other hand, poor fella! My first boyfriend was a perfectly nice atheist, but he …” HAD NO PRAYER. To set the scene, our looker for love meets a nonbeliever at 22-Across: “ It’s tough finding the right person. Fortunately there are no true disasters, just funny foibles, the kind you laugh about with your friends over a few cases of wine.Įach theme clue is in italic and identifies a trait in a mate - one is a longhaired hippie, one a bit of a hermit there’s a hockey player and a mountaineer, and each fellow sets up a particular idiom as a punchline. Up for a rom-com? Today’s theme set consists of scenes from six failed relationships and, just when you think your main character is destined for solitude, a successful love match. Last sports reference, I think! NOTRE DAME is both a famous French cathedral ( due to reopen in 2024 after a horrible fire) and an Indiana university represented by the “Fighting Irish.” Today’s Theme The SPINEL is far lesser known than the ruby, but its popularity is growing.ħ6D. This is a neat bit of gem trivia for people who love shiny things it’s appeared here and there in the puzzle since 1955.
They had found and had had borne up to the suite an immense chess setthe board a yard square and fashioned of squares of semiprecious stones framed in gilded silver, the pieces each an exquisite little marble or alabaster statuette, the kings and the queens wearing real golden crowns with tiny gemstones inset, the knights all armored and grasping perfect little swords of real steel, the bishops equipped with steel maces, the rooks complete to the last detail and including infinitesimally small bombards of brass mounted on the tower tops.58D.
One of the few gemstones crossword clue full#
I got a like backhand tolchock with some ringy rooker or other full on the rot. Glossy, raggy black rooks circled the elms where stick-nests bulged like cancers of the twigs within parasols of leaves. The rooks were wheeling over the plough-lands, and the peesweeps and snipe were calling in every meadow. The hawks, and the gleads, and the ravens, and the carrion-crows, and the hooded-crows, and the rooks, and the magpies, and all the rest of the rural militia, forgetting their own feuds, sometimes came sallying from all quarters, with even a few facetious jackdaws from the old castle, to show fight with the monarch of the air.īut do you remember one time we were together in the starboard Rook, forward, when Ikky broke water like a porpoise?įor sport, Corwick Mools threw a handful of maggots high into the air and the swiftest rooks caught them on the wing. They began to be shot at near Findon Beeches, but at first only with a rook rifle. The partridges were paired, the rooks were well on with their nests, and the meadows were full of shimmering grey flocks of fieldfares on their way north. The very rooks are black, and the starlings and the wintry fieldfares and redwings have no colour at a distance. In die mijmering was het hem, of de drie anderen zeer ver van hem waren, als van hem gescheiden door den nevel van rook.
One afternoon there rose up a flock of rooks out of a large oak tree standing separate in the midst of an arable field which was then at last being ploughed.īlankenship had moved a rook to an innocent-looking square and strolled on to the next boardand then Del had seen the checkmate coming at him, four moves away but one move too late for him to do anything about it. Here may be seen the Peer and the Prig, the Wise one and the Green one, the Pigeon and the Rook amalgamated together. Their gazes connected, and Timothy was certain that the rook was well aware of the importance of stopping Alastor from getting back inside.
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