Crossword-Solution: LIMERICKS
We have 11 clues for the answer “LIMERICKS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "A flea in a fly in a flue," and others. | 1 answer |
| Amusing poems from Ireland often with a twist | 1 answer |
| Five-line poems | 1 answer |
| Five-liners | 1 answer |
| Five-liners named for an Irish county | 1 answer |
| Five-liners named for an Irish port | 1 answer |
| Irreverent rhymes | 1 answer |
| Lear creations | 1 answer |
| Poems that often begin "There once was a man from . . ." | 1 answer |
| Verse form associated with Edward Lear | 1 answer |
| Some poems | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LIMERICKS (5)
The paper, therefore, returned to Limericks, and the amateur detectives, like so many Othellos, found their occupation gone.
Shakspere, over in the corner and _not_ autographed, had opened its mouth and begun to recite limericks.
One of his favourite limericks was: For beauty I am not a star, There are others more handsome by far.
Lear's nonsense songs, while retaining all the ludicrous merriment of his Limericks, have an added quality of poetic harmony.
But "gentle Dulness ever loves a joke"; and in 1766 this one, in modern parlance, "caught on." "Cross readings" had, moreover, one popular advantage: like the Limericks of Edward Lear, they were easily imitated.
Quotes with LIMERICKS (3)
How quickly bodies came to love each other, promise themselves to each other always, without asking permission. From the mind! If only she could give up her mind, let her heart swell, inflamed, her brain stepping out for whole days, whole seasons, her work shrinking to limericks.
Uh-oh, I hope he doesn’t start rattling off dirty limericks next; she’ll probably burn the hotel down.
I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're jumping rope and playing games. I think that's the first time I heard rhyming words - I don't know if I'd call that the definitive poetry, but that's when I heard rhyming words said and not necessarily sung.
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1953–2023).