Crossword-Solution: GAFFE 5 letters, 89 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Her recent commands with respect to turbulent Venice were the subject of criticism among the circle outside the Piazza Gaffe.

The gaff, if possible a good French _gaffe_, is indispensable, but the kilbin, a marine life-preserver resembling a heavy niblick, is a handy weapon at this stage of the conflict.

Our OC had an unusual name, Bonallack that was often mispronounced as bonny-lack and to remedy this gaffe a notice appeared on Daily Orders to the effect that, "The Colonel wishes it to be known that in the pronunciation of his name the accent should be placed upon the penultimate syllable." Uncomprehending soldiers stood around the notice-board saying things like, "Wot's 'ee mean?" or "Wot the 'ell's a penultimate syllable?" The kinder more knowledgeable types explained it to them.

Then we committed a great _gaffe_! When the Allens and E---- and I had been safely disposed of, and the introductions and interpretations were being directed toward the other four members of the party, we drank our champagne--we four, the Allens and ourselves! I think it was because we did not know what else to do with it, having stood stiffly at attention for some twenty minutes, trying to balance a very full glass in one hand, and conscious that the sugary cake in the other was fast melting.

Torrent runs him thro’ the heart, cuts his head off,] Thoo wase Torrent ffresse and good; Nere the fynd sore he stod, Cryst hym saue and see! The fynd fawt w{i}t{h} an yron~ staff, The fyrst stroke, to hym he gaffe, 685 He brast hys schyld on thre.