{"id":422,"date":"2018-10-12T01:44:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T01:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=422"},"modified":"2018-08-25T20:59:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T20:59:48","slug":"cryptic-crossword-poems-by-holly-painter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2018\/10\/12\/cryptic-crossword-poems-by-holly-painter\/","title":{"rendered":"Cryptic Crossword Poems by Holly Painter"},"content":{"rendered":"
Holly lives with her wife and son in Vermont, where she teaches writing and literature at the University of Vermont. Her first full-length book of poetry, Excerpts from a Natural History, was published by Titus Books in Auckland, New Zealand in 2015. Her poetry, fiction, and essays have also been published in literary journals and anthologies in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, China, Singapore, and the UK.<\/em><\/h6>\n

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Note:\u00a0The clues in the first pa<\/em>rt of each poem yield the answers that make up the haiku in the second part.<\/em><\/h6>\n

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Cryptic Crossword XIII<\/h3>\n

Clues:<\/em><\/p>\n

Standing and glaring,
\nconstant queue outside government camp
\nharasses addicts<\/p>\n

squatting at asylum\u2019s center, engrossed in scoring
\nsmuggled intoxicants, keen on
\noblivion or retreat to covers,
\nriots, upsets, or beliefs.<\/p>\n

Hateful line starts to curse a number of
\ndown-and-outs knocking back endless mescal base and glues.<\/p>\n

Answers:<\/em><\/p>\n

Rank lingering hounds
\nsettling into sleep postures
\nloathsome vagabonds<\/p>\n

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Cryptic Crossword XXXVI<\/h3>\n

Clues:<\/em><\/p>\n

Rookie officer at bar
\nlistens to singers\u2019 runs.
\nAlto vocalists go on to a scale out of the country<\/p>\n

song on The Voice.
\nQuivering slow ebb reverberates
\nas banter at end of pitch
\nwarm-up reveals police
\njoiner. Band, having no opener,
\nlaunches itself into medley in no time.<\/p>\n

Croaky mumbly fellow does cowboy
\ndrawls about redhead who captures
\nman\u2019s fancy (devastated, wife leaves).
\nChatty beginner cop exits, dropping \u201cthank you\u201d tips in Stetson.<\/p>\n

Answers:<\/em><\/p>\n

Colt canters away
\nAir wobbles with heat and flies
\nHorseman grabs his hat<\/p>\n

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Cryptic Crossword XXXVII<\/h3>\n

Clues:<\/em><\/p>\n

Frenzied hives drone in English countryside.
\nWhen the scones are served, conversations about golfing start:<\/p>\n

One game or another, albatrosses and eagles,
\ntrimming, swings that produce a flyer.
\nTan young man says
\nhe\u2019s singular in duffing and stands out
\nputting straight tap-ins. Draws,
\ncommon on the green,
\nreward golf that falls short, but beginner<\/p>\n

delights, leaps foolishly around, positive
\nabout being part of photo finish.
\nYouth prances, beams, filled with quiet lunatic smile.<\/p>\n

Answers:<\/em><\/p>\n

Devonshire teatime
\nBirds wing; sun shines, paints park gold
\nPleasures of springtime<\/p>\n

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Cryptic Crossword XXXVIII<\/h3>\n

Clues:<\/em><\/p>\n

Asinine dare and lover
\ncataloguer, inebriated liar in bar \u2013<\/p>\n

advance unfinished plot about nothing:
\nyou and me; America;
\ngood character;
\nrehashed, bland musing; or a coming of age story<\/p>\n

concealed by half-illusions. \u201cEnough
\nempty ululations!\u201d we object.
\nFinished, boy escapes pub, retreating
\nin possession of a tiny bit of scrappy
\ndignity, left with piles of delusions.<\/p>\n

Answers:<\/em><\/p>\n

Dear librarian
\nloan us a bildungsroman
\nfill us up with dreams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Holly lives with her wife and son in Vermont, where she teaches writing and literature at the University of Vermont. Her first full-length book of poetry, Excerpts from a Natural History, was published by Titus Books in Auckland, New Zealand in 2015. Her poetry, fiction, and essays have also been published in literary journals and … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-6O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}