Crossword-Solution: PEZ 3 letters, 166 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The _fico paradiso_ has a tender skin, but is easily spoilt by rain and requires a ridiculous amount of sun to dry it; the _fico vottato_ is also better fresh; the _fico pez-zottolo_ is often attacked by grubs, but grows to a large size every two or three years; the _fico pascarello_ is good up till Christmas; the _fico natalino;_ lastly, the _fico ——_, whose name I will not record, though it would be an admirable illustration of that same anthropomorphic turn of mind.

There is another fine Madonna, commonly called La Virgen del Pez, from a fish which young Tobit holds in his hand.

Apart from the chroniclers of individual exploits, such as López de Ayala, Brantôme, and the others, they are wholly colourless, and either pseudo-Roman or pseudo-Greek.

Francis Xavier, Don Teodosio de Goñi, Pero López de Ayala, Aviraneta--a saint, a revered worthy, an historian, a conspirator--these are our family gods.

And that Eugippius was an eye-witness of much which he tells, no one accustomed to judge of the authenticity of documents can doubt, if he studies the tale as it stands in Pez.