Crossword-Solution: WETTISH 7 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

When we came to a guide-post which pointed down his lane, I got out, and was dismissed in the dark with the observation—uttered good-naturedly and jovially, but not very helpfully—that he was “afraid I should have a wettish walk.” The walk certainly was wettish, and as I had had nothing to eat or drink since my midday meal, I was miserable and desponding.

Mercifully our ship was handy, so we got our tents and slept warm, though all our things were wettish.

The impression was, however, very strong, and my brother notes that he heard it on a wettish evening on the cliff near the south end of the old Steine.

The moss was soggy; the cliffs an’ rocks was all a-drip; the spruce was soaked t’ the skin—the earth all wettish an’ sticky an’ cold.

Presently there occurs an obstacle; already we have waded through some wettish spots; but how is it possible to cross this broad lagoon? On the right a _mancha_, one of those thickets of tree-heath and brooms, all interlaced with thorny briars, bars the way: these _manchas_ are impenetrable--we have proved this--save to the wild boar or the badger.