Crossword-Solution: SKILLY 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Far have I been and much have I seen, But never the beat of this; And there’s one must go down to that waterside To see how deep it is.” It fell in the dusk of the night When unco things betide, The skilly captain, the Cameron, Went down to that waterside.

But since we’re in it, willy-nilly, We maun be watchfü’, wise an’ skilly, An’ no mind ony ither billy, Lassie nor God.

And I who had bolted my skilly at Wormwood Scrubbs, and tightened my belt in a Holloway attic, it was I who sat down to this ineffable repast! Where the courses were few, but each a triumph of its kind, it would be invidious to single out any one dish; but the Jambon de Westphalie au Champagne tempts me sorely.

Having taken a cold bath on entering, I would be given for supper six ounces of bread and “three parts of skilly.” “Three parts” means three-quarters of a pint, and “skilly” is a fluid concoction of three quarts of oatmeal stirred into three buckets and a half of hot water.

Then breakfast, same as supper, three parts o’ skilly an’ a six-ounce loaf.” “’Tisn’t always six ounces,” corrected the Carter.