I was still trying to thin out my fat files while feeling chastened by another of my errors on Gutenberg last week. (In responding to a comment, I didn’t know who the “author” referred to was, since all of us were authors–all three of us for that matter (authors)….Dr. John Persico Jr, Ned Hamson, and moi.___ At any rate, today’s column has but one major entry, a puzzle, and the answers will be shared tomorrow or the next day. I discovered it in my old files from years ago by another prison staff member, Ben Braden of the Education Department, at Hocking Correctional Facility in Nelsonville, Ohio, now deceased. CONFESSION:: BEN DID NOT GIVE ME THE ANSWERS SO WE BOTH NEED TO GUESS…
- Move hitherward the entire assembly of those who are loyal in their beliefs________________________
- Listen, the celestial messengers produce harmonious sounds_______________________________________
- Nocturnal timespan of unbroken quietness__________________________________________________________
4. An emotion excited by the acquisition of expectation of good given to the terrestrial sphere_______
5. Embellish the interior passageways__________________________________________________________________
6. Exalted celestial beings to whom harkened___________________________________________________________
7. Twelve o’clock on a clement night witnessed its arrival_______________________________________________
8. The Christmas preceding all others_____________________________________________________________________
9. Small municipality in Judea southeast of Jerusalem______________________________________________________
10. Diminutive masculine master of skin covered percussionistic cylinders__________________________________
11. Omnipotent supreme being who elicits respite to ecstatic distinguished males________________________
12. Tranquility upon the terrestrial sphere____________________________________________________________________
13. Obese personification fabricated of compressed mounds of minute crystal.____________________________
14. Expectation of arrival of populated area by mythical masculine perennial gift giver____________
15. Natal celebration devoid of color________________________________________________________________
16. In awe of nocturnal timespan characterized by religiosity________________________________________
17. Geographic state of fantasy during season of mother nature’s dormancy__________________
18. The first person nominative plural of a triumvirate of far eastern heads of state._______________
19. Tintinnabulation of vacillating pendulums in inverted metallic, resonant cups.________________
20. In a different location the existence of an improvised unit of newborn children’s slumber furniture____________________________________________________________________________________________
21. Proceed forth declaring upon a specific geological alpine formation_________________________
22. Jovial yuletide desired for the second person singular of plural by us________________________
Answers surely before Christmas
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BURMA SHAVE
Did your toes ever ache
With a-wanting to kick
But no one’s there but you?
NH
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