Crossword-Solution: SWATS 5 letters, 108 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

And the Duke was fascinated forthwith with the president's knowledge of Nigerian geography, and explained that he had once actually descended from below Timbuctoo to Oohat in a doolie manned only by four swats.

Inspiring bold John Barleycorn! What dangers thou canst mak us scorn! Wi’ tippenny, we fear nae evil: Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!— The swats sae reamed in Tammie’s noddle, Fair play, he cared na deils a boddle.

From the root _spar_, to quiver or flutter, comes the name of “sparrow” and a part of the name “sparrow-hawk.” {94e} Summerhall, Stubbs, in the “Anatomy of Abuses,” speaking of the maypole, tells how villagers, when they have reared it up, “with handkerchiefs and flags streaming on the top, they strew the ground about, bind green boughs about it, set up _summerhalls_, bowers, and arbours hard by it, and then fall they to banquet and feast, and leap and dance about it.” {148d} Swats, new ale, wort.

Lately, there has been the growing practice among critics of roasting a play on the morning after production, and then having another go at it in the Sunday edition under the title of "Second Swats" or "The Past Week in the Theatre," which has made it pretty rocky going for dramatists who thus get it twice in the same place, and experience the complex emotions of the commuter who, coming home in the dark, trips over the baby's cart and bumps his head against the hat stand.

Dead, dead, dead; (Sorrow Swats!) Swats wha hae wi' Ahkoond bled, Swats whom he hath often led Onward to a gory bed, Or to Victory, As the case might be, Sorrow Swats! Tears shed, Tears shed like water, Your great Ahkoond is dead! That Swats the matter! Mourn, city of Swat! Your great Ahkoond is not, But lain 'mid worms to rot.