Pen Circle n° 31

“Learning is
like rowing
upstream. Once
you stop, you
drift back.”
Chinese Proverb
Sermo in circulis
est liberior.
Issue N° 31 – October-December 2012
Journal of the Department of English
Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Faculty of Letters, Beni Mellal, Morocco.
Editor: Khalid Chaouch.
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Editorial: One, two, three... fingerprint! …
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Pedagogical Page: ‘Bibliography Presentation’ …
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Pen Circle Prize (2012/2013) …
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The Poet’s Corner: ‘Slough’ by Sir John Betjeman …
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‘Recuerdo’ by Edna St. Vincent Millay …
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‘The Schoolboy Man’ by Hamid Masfour, SLCE Master (2011-2013) … 09
Call for Articles: Border Crossing…
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“The Making of a Novelist” by Somerset Maugham …
12
English Department Activities …
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My Pungent Quotations: Thus Spoke Robert Frost …
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Proverbs of the Moment: Action and Deeds …
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My Enigmatic Pen Circles …
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20 Clues …
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Crosswords N° 31...
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EDITORIAL
One, Two, Three, Fingerprint!
Not marble nor the gilded monuments
Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme,
But you shall shine more bright in these contents
Than upswept stone besmeared with sluttish time.
Shakespeare, Sonnet 55
Well said, indeed! Things will forever and ever stand to the
test of time if – and only if – they are powerful. But powerful
deeds are not given only to Shakespeare, Averroes, or Einstein.
They are the lot of anyone who CAN – at any time – produce a
work of a lasting effect: a book, a poem, a monument, a work of
art, a treatise, a law, a rule, a map, a software, an invention, or a
technical device.
A simple scribble on a besmeared tombstone reveals a wealth
of information on an empire that crumbled in the night of time. A
small rock, in a forlorn desert, inscribed by an idle shepherd, may
eternize a no-longer-existing world of lush flora and varied fauna.
A set of rickety runes or baffling hieroglyphs breathe long life into
underground palaces and buried courts. A single 'suspended' epic
(‫ )ﻣُﻌّﻠﻘﺔ‬of old Arab poetry tells and retells the entire anthropology
and sociology of a whole nation. A wrinkled stone engraved by a
weary hunter in the cavernous depth of a desolate cave might
equally revive the lost lore of prehistoric eons. And so does a work
that leaves an enduring trace.
Any careful work carried out at an intense moment of deep
insight would certainly join the endless string of great works that
defy time and oblivion. The more the work is beautiful and
appealing to humanity, the greater will be its chances to live and its
claims to eternity. Granted, things have changed and humanity has
gone a long way. People are no longer inscribing or engraving
sketches on 'stone besmeared with sluttish time.' But opportunities
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thinking modes.
In the realm of academia, both students and researchers have
the opportunity to try their chances to 'eternity'. A simple click on
the mouse might very well be the beginning of a wonderful
beginning of success and fame. The opening succession of clinks
on a keyboard might equally set the right notes of a great work.
The rickety rough draft on a blueprint might be the prelude to an
original treatise in a particular discipline. The first brushes of a
tactful pencil might be the sketch of a great masterpiece of art to
come. And a short poem, scribbled on a torn paper by an astute
mind or a sincere heart at a crucial moment of insight, might very
well be the right claimant to genius.
Man (male or female) has been claiming for eternity since the
dawn of time. Though the nature of Man denies him/her the right
to live forever, physically speaking, it is his/her duty to leave deeds
that would stand the test of time as long as they serve humanity
and, at the same time, represent a living record of the artist.
However, the field of work is not as writable and inscribable
as the dunes of the Sahara or the wet sand of a desolate shore.
Genius is something that comes with hard work, iron perseverance,
a smart sense of time management, and an unfailing stamina. The
world is so organized and so complex that one cannot hit at the
right tone of genius with a simple wish or a random opportunity.
Yet, this is not asking for the impossible. Once we gather the sum
of conditions for success, everyone of us can always leave a mark
and claim for a place among the great. The blue sky, the shining
sun, the full moon and the firmament stars are still the lot of all
humans, aren't they? So just set to work, use both mind and heart…
and you will leave a footprint that would say loud and clear: "I was
here!"
Khalid Chaouch
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Pedagogical Page
Bibliography Presentation
Whenever you quote from a document (printed, online or
multimedia), it is important to cite your reference(s) in order to enable
the reader to locate (and probably to retrieve) the material to which
you have referred. You should follow the same style of citing
references throughout the whole research paper. There are three ways
of using a reference:
- Quoting: by using quotation marks. Quotations can be either
embedded (four lines or less) or in block formats (five lines or more).
- Paraphrasing: clarifying and rewriting an argument using your own
words, phrasing and interpretation. When paraphrasing, give the
citation where it occurs naturally or at the end of the relevant sentence
or paragraph
- Summarizing: by distilling/condensing the main ideas (the
essentials) of a relatively long passage and stating them in one's own
words
Links to the main citation styles
MLA Style (Modern Language Association of America): mainly in the
field of Humanities
http://library.concordia.ca/help/howto/mla.php
Columbia Online Style (COS): a synthesis of styles designed for
citing online material
http://www.readerly-writerlytexts.com/mla_and_other_styles.htm
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APA Citation Style (American Psychological Association):
http://flash1r.apa.org/apastyle/basics/index.htm?__utma=185732729.1
142177135.1351450657.1351450657.1351450657.1&__utmb=185732
729.10.10.1351450657&__utmc=185732729&__utmx=&__utmz=185732729.1351450657.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct
)|utmcmd=(none)&__utmv=-&__utmk=226565533
http://www.apastyle.org/learn/tutorials/basics-tutorial.aspx
Chicago Manual Style (CMS): in History and Humanities
www.iupui.edu/~uwc/pdf/Chicago Style 15th Ed Turabian 7th Ed.pdf
http://www.iupui.edu/~uwc/pdf/Chicago%20Style%2015th%20Ed%20
Turabian%207th%20Ed.pdf
Harvard Style: aka 'Author Date Method' (in Social and Physical
Sciences) (p. 13)
http://www.library.dmu.ac.uk/Images/Selfstudy/Harvard.pdf
OSCOLA (Oxford Standard for Citing Legal Authorities) is used in
Law studies
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/documents/guides/law/qglaw024.pdf
CBE Style (Council of Biology Editors): used in mathematics,
physical sciences and the life sciences
http://www.ketch.alaska.edu/library/help/online-resources/cbestyle.html
Before opting for a particular style, it is essential to refer to one’s
supervisor or the editorial rules of the Journal or Magazine when
applicable.
Source:
Research Methodology. SLCE Master Course home page. Oct. 2012-Dec.
2012. Dept. of English, Sultan Moulay Slimane Univ. 05 Nov. 2012
http://usms.ma/usms_moodle/course/view.php?id=87
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Pen Circle Prize
for Mellali Writers in English
(2012/2013)
Pen Circle opens the annual competition in creative
writing for all students of the Department of English. This
aims at encouraging students to express themselves in
English.
All students who would like to participate in this
competition are required to write an original piece of
writing not exceeding two pages: a short story, a poem, an
essay, or any form of creative writing. Participants are
kindly requested to submit their attempts to a member of the
Editorial Board, or to the Department secretary (Mrs. Nadia)
or to send them to the Journal email address
([email protected]) before January 31, 2013. As it is
the case each year, the members of the jury (professors
Redouan Saïdi, Mohamed Rakii, Mly. Lmustapha Mamaoui
and Khalid Chaouch) will take into consideration the levels
(Semesters) of the candidates so as to give equal chances to
all.
Four awards will be given to the winners, each assigned
to a Semester (Semesters 1, 3, and 5, in addition to a winner
chosen among Master Studies’ students.) The winners will
receive the awards and will have their attempts published in
the next issue of Pen Circle (N° 32).
Good luck to all!
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The Poet’s Corner
This corner is devoted both to prominent figures in poetry and to ambitious students who dare
to embark in the process of creative writing. Students’ attempts should be sent by email or
presented in legible handwriting, and submitted to a member of Pen Circle Editorial Board.
Slough
Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!
Come, bombs and blow to smithereens
Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,
Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,
Tinned minds, tinned breath.
Mess up the mess they call a townA house for ninety-seven down
And once a week a half a crown
For twenty years.
And get that man with double chin
Who'll always cheat and always win,
Who washes his repulsive skin
In women's tears:
And smash his desk of polished oak
And smash his hands so used to stroke
And stop his boring dirty joke
And make him yell.
But spare the bald young clerks who add
The profits of the stinking cad;
It's not their fault that they are mad,
They've tasted Hell.
It's not their fault they do not know
The birdsong from the radio,
It's not their fault they often go
To Maidenhead
And talk of sport and makes of cars
In various bogus-Tudor bars
And daren't look up and see the stars
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But belch instead.
In labour-saving homes, with care
Their wives frizz out peroxide hair
And dry it in synthetic air
And paint their nails.
Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough
To get it ready for the plough.
The cabbages are coming now;
The earth exhales.
Sir John Betjeman (1906-1984).
Griff Rhys Jones (ed.) The Nation’s Favorite Twentieth Century Poems. London:
BBC Books, 1999, pp. 90-91.
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Recuerdo
We were very tired, we were very merry –
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable –
But we looked into fire, we leaned across a table,
We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon;
And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon.
We were very tired, we were very merry –
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
And you ate an apple, and I ate a pear,
From a dozen of each we had bought somewhere;
And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold,
And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold.
We were very tired, we were very merry –
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
We hailed, “Good-morrow, mother!” to a shawl-covered head,
And bought a morning paper, which neither of us read;
And she wept, ‘God bless you!” for the apples and pears,
And we gave her all our money but our subway fares.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892- 1950)
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The Schoolboy Man
He was a dreamer for a lifetime
He’s been turning time into space
Bearing the skylines on his face
Breathing out a bitter rhyme
He’s been a schoolboy and he’s been a man
Played no more and never sang
Nothing would keep him young
When his toy was his gun
He’s been my land painter
He’s drawn and drawn every particle
Every rock is his riddle
And everything is a center
He’s been dancing to a rocking tree
Fell on the air
But never cared
How long he would be free
In Acre or in Galilee
In Haifa or in Jerusalem
In the hearts of the deaf or the dumb
The schoolboy-man’s been God’s arrow
Hamid MASFOUR
SLCE Master Unit (2011-2013)
This poem is taken from Hamid Masfour’s collection of poems,
Never Dare Kill the Sun (Rabat: Top Press, 2008.) He is also
the author of ‫( ﺣﻤﻖ وﺻﻮر‬Lunacy and Pictures), 2004.
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‫ﺟﺎﻣﻌﺔ اﻟﺴﻠﻄـﺎن ﻣﻮﻻي ﺳﻠﻴﻤـﺎن‬
‫آﻠﻴﺔ اﻵداب واﻟﻌﻠﻮم اﻹﻧﺴﺎﻧﻴﺔ‬
‫ﺷﻌﺒﺔ اﻟﻠﻐﺔ اﻹﻧﺠﻠﻴﺰﻳﺔ وﺁداﺑﻬﺎ‬
‫ اﻟﻤﻐﺮب‬- ‫ﺑﻨﻲ ﻣﻼل‬
Sultan Moulay Slimane University
Faculty of Letters and Humanities
Department of English
Beni Mellal, Morocco
The Research Laboratory on Culture and Communication
Middle Ground. Journal of Literary and Cultural Encounters.
Beni Mellal, Morocco
Call for Articles:
Border Crossing
Borders and Border crossing of whatever type, geographical,
cultural, racial, ethnic, linguistic, literary, artistic, etc., are
obviously issues of unprecedented import more now than ever
before, given both the incessant mutability of the materiality of
borderlines and crossings and our ever-shifting re-definitions of
the concept of borders and border crossing. In today’s
metamodern attitudes towards concept formation in the
social/human sciences and critical theory, master notions of
Self, centre, hegemony, paradigm, order, purity, etc., are
disrupted both from within and without, and are, thereby,
rethought and redirected toward new understandings of
identity, sameness, otherness, and difference.
Yet in the stark management of international relations and
world politics, the process of coming or living together in a
globalized space has undoubtedly never meant and would not
necessarily lead to the collapse of boundaries and lines of
division, the crossing of which becomes most often subject to
transgression or negotiation that at times culminate in
conflictual situations or in the creation of interstitial spaces or
Third Space.
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The Research Laboratory on Culture and Communication
calls for articles for publication in the fifth issue of its Journal
Middle Ground. Journal of Literary and Cultural Encounters.
Articles of this issue should cover the concept of Borders,
address its current complexities and representations, and
explore the diverse types and rites of crossings and passages.
Articles may address, but are not necessarily limited to, any
aspect of the topic of Borders and Border Crossing, such as:
- The concept and representation of borders and border crossing
- Significance of the various types of border crossing/transgression
- Thresholds, barriers, walls and borders
- Centre and periphery
- Experiences of liminality at crossing borders
- Typology of border crossing
- Rites of passage and initiation
- In-between space/Third Space/ interstitial space
- Cultural/linguistic/racial/ethnic borderlines.
- contact zone / middle ground
- Translation as border crossing
- Migration, expatriation, exile
- Crossbreeding, Miscegenation
- Crossing the borders between literary genres
- Crossing the borders between different currents of thought
- Interdisciplinarity (crossing the borders between fields of knowledge)
- Borders between the local, the regional, the national and the global
- Regionalism
- The concept of border in globalization
Articles, containing the author’s name, email address,
affiliation, a postal address, key words and a short bio, should
be sent in WORD format to:
Khalid Chaouch at [email protected]
and [email protected]
The deadline for sending proposed articles is 04 January 2013.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent on 08 February 2013.
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The making of a novelist …
In my youth, when my instinctive feeling about a book differed
from that of authoritative critics, I did not hesitate to conclude
that I was wrong. I did not know how often critics accept the
conventional view, and it never occurred to me that they could
talk with assurance of what they did not know very much
about. It was long before I realized that the only thing that
mattered to me in a work of art was what I thought about it. I
have acquired now a certain confidence in my own judgement,
for I have noticed that what I felt instinctively forty years ago
about the writers I read then, and what I would not heed
because it did not agree with current opinion, is now pretty
generally accepted. For all that I still read a great deal of
criticism, for I think it a very agreeable form of literary
composition. One does not always want to be reading to the
profit of one’s soul and there is no pleasanter way of idling
away an hour or two than by reading a volume of criticism. It is
diverting to agree; it is diverting to differ; and it is always
interesting to know what an intelligent man has to say about
some writer, Henry More, for instance, or Richardson, whom
you have never had occasion to read.
But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has
for you; it may have other and much more profound meanings
for the critic, but at second hand they can be of small service to
you. I do not read a book for the book’s sake, but for my own.
It is not my business to judge it, but to absorb what I can of it,
as the amoeba absorbs a particle of a foreign body, and what I
cannot assimilate has nothing to do with me. I am not a scholar,
a student or a critic; I am a professional writer and now I read
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only what is useful to me professionally. Anyone can write a
book that will revolutionize the ideas that have been held for
centuries on the Ptolemys and I shall contentedly leave it
unread; he can describe an incredibly adventurous journey in
the heart of Patagonia and I shall remain ignorant of it. There is
no need for the writer of fiction to be an expert on any subject
but his own; on the contrary, it is harmful to him, since, human
nature being weak, he is hard put to it to resist the temptation of
inappositely using his special knowledge. The novelist is illadvised to be too technical. The practice, which came into
fashion in the nineties, of using a multitude of cant terms is
tiresome. It should be possible to give verisimilitude without
that, and atmosphere is dearly bought at the price of
tediousness. The novelist should know something about the
great issues that occupy men, who are his topics, but it is
generally enough if he knows a little. He must avoid pedantry
at all costs. But even at that the field is vast, and I have tried to
limit myself to such works as were significant to my purpose.
You can never know enough about your characters.
Biographies and reminiscences, technical works, will give you
often an intimate detail, a telling touch, a revealing hint, that
you might never have got from a living model. People are hard
to know. It is a slow business to induce them to tell you the
particular thing about themselves that can be of use to you.
They have the disadvantage that often you cannot look at them
and put them aside, as you can a book, and you have to read the
whole volume, as it were, only to learn that it had nothing
much to tell you.
W. Somerset Maugham,
The Summin Up. London: Penguin Books, 1963, pp. 63-64.
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English Department Activities
Translating Amazigh Popular Accounts
(Project)
Dr. Redouan Saidi will supervise a group of students
to lead a two-year project (2012-2014) that will consist
in translating a number of Amazigh popular accounts
with Tifinagh transcription into French, Spanish and
English.
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RLCC Annual Conference
Beni Mellal, 23-24 April 2013
The Research Laboratory on Culture and
Communication (RLCC) at the Faculty of Letters and
Human Sciences, Beni Mellal, will organize, in 23-24
April 2013, an International Conference on ‘The
Concept of Identity.’
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Language, Culture and Society
The Master Unit 'Studies in Literary and Cultural
Encounters' (SLCE) at the Faculty of Letters and Human
Sciences, Beni Mellal, organized on 07 June 2012, a
Study Day for the benefit of students-researchers in
Maser and Doctoral studies on the theme of "Language,
Culture and Society."
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A Workshop on ‘CITAVI’ software
Mr. Mohamed JAAFARI conducted, on 05 November
2012, a training session on: the basics of 'CITAVI'
software. The workshop was given to the studentsresearchers of the Master Unit ‘Studies in Literary and
Cultural Encounters’ (SLCE) as a part of 'Research
Methodology' Course.
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“Astronomy” Talk
A talk on “Astronomy” was given in English by Fritz
Gerd Koring, director of Sahara Sky observatory
(Tinfou, Zagora), on Tuesday 20 November 2012 at the
Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences in Beni Mellal.
The event was organized by the Club of Amateur
Astronomy of the FLSH, Beni Mellal (AstroBM).
http://www.saharasky.com/saharasky/
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Pungent Quotations
In this column, we present a selection of quotations by prominent figures of art,
literature, politics, history, philosophy, science, etc.
Thus Spoke … Robert Frost
Tough often considered the quintessential poet of New England and America,
Robert Frost was raised in California and first published in England. His
poems, written mostly in plain speech using a traditional meter, frequently
compare the outer, natural world to the inner world of the psyche.
“People are inexterminable – like flies and bed-bugs. There always will be
some that survive in cracks and crevices – that’s us.”
Observer, 29 Mar. 1959.
“I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is
discovering.”
Quoted in the New York Times, 7 Nov. 1955.
“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”
Quoted in Vogue, 15 Mar. 1963.
“The best way out is always through.”
A Servant to Servants.
“I never dared be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old.”
“I would have written of me on my stone
‘I had a lover’s quarrel with the world’.”
Precaution.
Epitaph.
“No wonder poets have sometimes to seem
So much more business-like than businessmen.
Their wares are harder to get.”
New Hampshire.
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles before I go to sleep,
And miles before I go to sleep.”
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.
References:
Cohen, J. M. and M. J. Cohen. The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations.
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1980.
Cohen, J. M. and M. J. Cohen. The Penguin Dictionary of Quotations.
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1983.
Negri, Paul, ed. 101 Great American Poems. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications,
1998.
Selected by Khalid Chaouch.
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Proverbs of the Moment
ACTION and DEEDS
™ Actions speak loader than words.
™ ‘Tis action makes the hero.
™ Our own actions are our security, not
others’ judgements.
™ Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves.
™ One good deed atones for a thousand
bad ones [Chinese proverb.]
™ The shortest answer is doing.
™ The greatest talkers are the least doers.
™ Never be weary of well doing.
™ Evil deeds are like perfume, difficult to
hide.
™ An ill deed cannot bring honour.
™ Better suffer ill than do ill.
™ From word to deed is a great space.
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My Enigmatic Pen Circles, N° 31
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20 Clues, n° 31
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Looking for Clues among Football and Golf Terms!
The 20 clues below are hidden in the terms at the end of each line. To
find them, cross off some of the letters in each term (from left to right.)
Example: - Social rank … CATASTROPHE (The clue is ‘CASTE’. It is
obtained by crossing off the letters ‘TA’ and ‘ROPH’ in
‘CATASTROPHE’)
1. Drop down from a higher level ………………. FOOTBALL
2. One of the curved bones in the chest …………… DRIBBLE
3. Any plant that is grown for its grain ….………….. CORNER
4. Leave a place ……………………………………… GOAL
5. Empty space between two things……………GOALKEEPER
6. Give money to someone for goods or services …. PENALTY
7. However ……..………..………………… OBSTRUCTION
8. Story ……………………………………………… TACKLE
9. To rest on or against something …...…………. LINESMAN
10. Deep loud sound made by a lion …………… CROSSBAR
11. Black powder produced when wood or coal is burnt … SHOOT
12. To depart ……………………...…………………… GOLF
13. To breathe one’s last ………………………………CADDIE
14. Move something into a particular position ………… PUTT
15. Garden tool used for breaking up the soil ………...… HOLE
16. Go head first into water ……………………...…… DRIVE
17. Young lion, bear, fox, etc. .…………………………CLUBS
18. To possess .……………………………… HEADCOVER
19. Painting, drawing, engraving, etc. …..…………… CARTS
20. Piece of cloth put on the floor as decoration …… ROUGH
20 Clues to n° 30: 1. but 2. bad 3. pen 4. rites 5. rector 6. bard 7.
ex- 8. can 9. stop 10. rice 11. CAIR 12. mute 13. ads 14. I'd 15. base
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CROSSWORDS (N° 31)
1- Person supposedly endowed with the ability to remove evils from a
person or a place – American news channel. 2- To officially pass a law
or bill so that it becomes legal – When closed, it is covered by an eyelid.
3- Plants that you collect in harvest time – French monosyllabic answer.
4- European city supposedly built by Romulus – Street – Informal word
for ‘a very young child.’ 5- Find it in ‘AXE’ –Large snake that kills its
victims by squeezing them to death – Radio wavelength. 6- Extremely
small – Great Californian city. 7- The protecting covering on top of a
building – A sudden military attack. 8- Outer part of the body between
the leg and the waist – Preposition indicating movement – Not drunk. 9‘All right!’ – Laboratory. 10- Humble, modest – Load of something. 11The system according to which the money, industry and trade of a
country are organized. 12- A cleaning and washing substance – Earth.
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A- Find it in “ACRE” – Rhythmic endings of verses (pl.) B- Copying
machine – Find it in “LOIN” C- The use of words which sound like the
sound they are describing. D- The crime of forcing a woman to a sexual
relation – Used in conditional clauses – Double consonants. E- Double
consonants. F- Singular pronoun – A Romanticist wandering poet – A
coast Guard G- An adverb of consequence – Lots of laughter. H- To
tease – A monosyllabic answer. I- Trouble – A gang or a large crowd. JParts of a dollar (pl.) – To make someone responsible for something bad.
K- Biggest city in New York State – A night bird with large face and flat
eyes – Not difficult. L- Home of a bird – Spheres (pl.)