Crossword-Solution: CREAKY 6 letters, 17 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

What remains to us here, behind the Yser, is not much more than a strip of land almost impossible to defend; a few rain-soaked trenches around razed villages; roads blown to smithereens, unusable by any vehicle; a creaky old horse cart we haul around ourselves, loaded with crates of damp ammunition that are constantly on the verge of sliding into a canal, forcing us to slog like madmen for every ten yards of progress as we stifle our warning cries; the snarling officers in th…

We have a soul at times. No one’s got it non-stop, for keeps. Day after day, year after yearmay pass without it. Sometimesit will settle for awhileonly in childhood’s fears and raptures. Sometimes only in astonishmentthat we are old. It rarely lends a handin uphill tasks, like moving furniture, or lifting luggage, or going miles in shoes that pinch. It usually steps outwhenever meat needs choppingor forms have to be filled. For every thousand conversationsit participates in o…

Got it!" Mike announced. The GE record player slowly whirred to life, creaky as an old carousel." Nice," John said, raising a beer in salute. "What'd you do?""It wasn't on," Mike said.