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I just wondered if you saw "gnarled", or is it my
confused mind?
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..he said he feared his demise ere his pen his teeming brain would have

GLEANED

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I just saw your question, Luke ..

but it wasn't there when I replied to GLEANER ...???? Now it is; and I'm a few hours after your and the others' earlier entries... ???

Also, I noticed that he'd still get GLEANER out of GNARLED, but you're right ..looks as if there were 6 minutes between ..A puzzlement.

If you need my GLEANED yanked out of there, yank away!

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No, I didn't see it at all; it may have been posted during the time I was composing and researching GLEANER. A delayed-action "not-quite-simulposting," as it were. But it does come from GNARLED too, via D->E, as posted above... blush

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- G

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LEADEN ..I gleaned a lot from this, esp. the Millet painting; at noon, I'm going to say the Angelus, thanks to '..doc'(and there's a millet grain of truth to that)

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(Afterthought: Do you suppose the grain is called "millet" because that's what you do?)
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LEADEN

E --> I

LEAD-IN

As in
A Limerick based upon Sweden:
I want to put "-ist" after "hedon-".
And you'll like the effects
(Though I don't mention "sex")
Only first it should have a good lead-in.

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..the paragraphs, but not the parentheses (yesterday was e e cummings' b-day)

ELIDES

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L ---- > R

..for a newspaper or magazine

EDITOR

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POTTIER

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..said Eppie

RIPOSTE

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TOPSIDE,DEPOSIT,POSITED


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..as they are all somewhat legendary; indeed, they are

STORIED

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+ A

... Club members did to one another, the chickens

ROASTED

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T ---> F

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.. targeted by low-flying attack planes

STRAFED

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drop D

FASTER

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SIFTER

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.. a wound that won't heal tends to

FESTER

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..if they'd all go away, I might have time to get

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TRUSTY

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TRYST

T --> A

SATYR

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- R

ATYS

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+ S

..not so palatable; fresher is better


TASTY ..Who the heck was Atys?

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..Who the heck was Atys?

Atys


HASTY

Y ---> N

SHAN'T

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+ K


THANKS ..or should it be ' --- > K ???? just sayin'

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