Crossword-Solution: PINKIES 7 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

For the Pinkies were round and chubby--almost like "apple-dumplings," as the parrot called them--and they were not very tall, the highest of the men being no taller than Trot or Button-Bright.

They halted a little way from our adventurers, and one of the women muttered in a horrified voice, "Blueskins!" "Guess again! The more you guess I rather think you'll know the less," retorted the parrot, and then he added grumblingly in Trot's ear, "Blue feathers don't make bluebirds." "Really," said the girl, standing up and bowing respectfully to the Pinkies, "we are not Blueskins, although we are wearing the blue uniforms of the Boolooroo and have just escaped from the Blue Country.

But this incident had determined the Pinkies to consider our friends prisoners and to take them immediately before their Queen.

The Pinkies were every one short and fat and gorgeously dressed in pink attire, and their faces indicated that they were contented and happy.

About the middle of the open space inside the statues, which appeared to be the public meeting place of the Pinkies, was a small, low house, domed like all the other houses but built of a coarse pink stone instead of the fine marble to be seen everywhere else.