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i Crypti Crossword No 57
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11 Across, Art of piano playing, (5) ??T??
13 Across, Ex-student starts to make notes,getting in usual mess, (7) A???N??
26 Across, Reluctant to pen unconventional yarn, (6) ?H?D??
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13 Across, Ex-student starts to make notes,getting in usual mess, (7) A???N??
26 Across, Reluctant to pen unconventional yarn, (6) ?H?D??
Many Thanks in Advance
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Formerly a type of cheap cloth the word has become an adjective to mean anything cheap, run-down. In "The Gondoliers", Gilbert and Sullivan's biting satire on republicanism and egalitarianism, the Grand Inquisitor sings the following:
"When you have nothing else to wear
But cloth of gold and satins rare,
For cloth of gold you cease to care —
Up goes the price of shoddy."
The full text of the song can be found here; to my mind as relevant now as it was in the 1880s.
http://math.boisestat...web_opera/gond16.html
"When you have nothing else to wear
But cloth of gold and satins rare,
For cloth of gold you cease to care —
Up goes the price of shoddy."
The full text of the song can be found here; to my mind as relevant now as it was in the 1880s.
http://math.boisestat...web_opera/gond16.html