Crossword-Solution: CLOCKER 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Nothing is further from the French taste than tea-drinking, and yet a Parisian lady will now invite you gravely to "five o'clocker" with her, although I can remember when that beverage was abhorred by the French as a medicine; if you had asked a Frenchman to take a cup of tea, he would have answered: "Why? I am not ill!" Even Paris (that supreme and undisputed arbiter of taste) has submitted to English influence; tailor-made dresses and low-heeled shoes have become as "good form" in France as in London.

Clocker to be a merman, established in the grocery trade in five-and-twenty fathoms of water.) ‘We were smoking our pipes, and walking up and down the causeway, talking of one thing and talking of another.

Tens, twenties, hundreds--he counted them until three hundred dollars had been placed to win upon a "clocker tip" in that day's last race in Louisville.

Naturally, Doc Hawkins knew the background: That Clocker was a race handicapper--publisher, if you could call it that, of a tiny tip sheet--for Doc, in need of drinking money, had often consulted him professionally.

The outlook is never good in such cases." "Maybe they can't help her," Clocker said harshly, "but I will." "People are not horses," Doc reminded him.