I'm thinking of a word that rhymes with "hot rod"

Ooh, look at this shiny new lap top. The power. The speed. Vroom, vroom.

Crambo rhymes with "hot rod." But perhaps not according to Roland.

It's really wet outside, all the snails and slugs are coming out?

This stylish young man was known for his flashy clothes and for fighting with Rockers.

Shhh. The IISO is listening.

Forget sharkskin. The Mods now wear slugskin. Gastropods, dig?

IISO? Islamic International Standards Organization, maybe? They seem to be a sort of god squad.

Not: Mod, gastropod, god squad.

Some theologians distinguish the "greater" and "lesser" forms of this; not surprisingly, it's from the same triliteral root as the Arabic word for "diligent."

Has crambo gotten a bit trampled?

Crambo does seem to have been trod upon during the jihad. Oof.

as stupid as a lump of clay?

Shh! They'll hear you!! You know, those Israeli guys.

My grandfather, who immigrated from County Kerry, used to refer to it as "the ould -----"

In the mid-1960s, this was the "Dawn" that superseded "East" and was superseded by "Union."

A clod of sod I am for not knowing Mossad right off.

Hmmm. #12 requires more thought.

Not: Mod, gastropod, god squad, trod, jihad, clod, Mossad, sod.

The thing that sticks out of Massachusetts?

My super cool cableknit tennis vest?

A pace like a tired mare's, according to Mr. Shakespeare...

A businessman visiting Boston wants to try some local seafood, so he gets in a taxi and asks, "Do you know where I could go to get ____?" The taxi driver says, "Sure, I know a few places...but it's not often you hear the passive pluperfect subjunctive anymore."

Still thinking about #12.

Darsu, "Romney" doesn't rhyme with "hot rod." Oh, wait...

Unruly, are we going for a vowel rhyme here, with "tog"?

Heh, Buck. The tourists just plod along until they get scrod. Usually by the taxi drivers. Speaking of taxis and grammar, years ago, an old friend of mine was lost in Boston. She saw a taxi driver and asked him, "how would one get to Commonwealth Avenue?" He put his nose in the air and said, "Well! ONE would take a right here, and ONE would go down three blocks, and ONE would..." And she said, "How would one like a punch in the nose?"

Not: Mod, gastropod, god squad, trod, jihad, clod, Mossad, sod, Cape Cod, tog, plod, scrod.

A visible surface or false appearance?

This adjective originally described horses whose shoes had partially protruding nails for better traction in winter; today it's used solely in an idiom suggestive of juggernauts.

As a hint for #12, those are the meanings of three foreign words that became front-page news in the 1960s.

//Haha! Gotta love those Boston cabbies. Of course, half of them are unemployed ex-grad students, so you can't blame them for being snarky.//

Speaking of Romney, is Utah the last state to allow execution by this jolly group of gun enthusiasts?

Feisty Elizabethan, frank-speaking, woman might
(unjustly?) be called a __ __ __ __.

#15 is a brand name

"...last state to allow... (firing squad) execution?"... (21)

I donʻt know. But I do know that neither Mitt Romney nor his
father George Romney (R, MI) is from Utah. (No doubt they have some ties with Utah.)

Carl Sandburgʻs American Songbag
Has a section title: The Ould __ __ __
As an anthologist, he wasnʻt God,
Still less as a singer. Nag
Him as you will, though, he compiled
A good collection which adult or child

Can admire; in the case of the above sub-title
Itʻll indicate Irish-American; getting it rightʻll
Allow for both options
(stopping before I lapse into puns).

//>24 rolandperkins: Roland, I was referring to the Mormon connection, which is why this form of execution is allowed.//

"....I was referring to the Mormon connection. . ."

Yes, it crossed my mind that you might be. But then I thought "No -- Utah and Mormons used to be synonymous, but not any longer." Are you saying that thereʻs a Mormon influence
on the method of execution? I would have though that to be
strictly a secular question. If influence came to mind, I would
think first of the tradition of the "Old West".

It's not a clever facade. Crambo really isn't a sod-- drunken, ould or otherwise. And may I face the firing squad after being run over roughshod by a bawd if it's manufactured by Izod.

Still working on #12. Maybe I'm making it more complicated than it is.

Not: Mod, gastropod, god squad, trod, jihad, clod, Mossad, sod, Cape Cod, tog, plod, scrod, facade, roughshod, firing squad, bawd, Izod.

//If over-educated Boston cabbies have reason to be snarky, consider the story of my sister-in-law hailing a taxi in New Haven. She'd just cut her hair in a Sinéad O'Connor-like 'do. The cabbie stopped, looked at her, and blurted, "Don't you know that hair is a woman's crowning glory?"//

Musket, powder, ball, wadding... Pass me that stick thing please?

Watch where you point that thing. Someone could lose an eye.

Not: Mod, gastropod, god squad, trod, jihad, clod, Mossad, sod, Cape Cod, tog, plod, scrod, facade, roughshod, firing squad, bawd, Izod, ramrod.

The way these words rhyme, they're like peas in a...

Peas in an allo mattar... peas in a porridge... peas in a whole... peas in a world war... peas in a swimming pool... peas in a... a... don't tell me, ummm...

Not: Mod, gastropod, god squad, trod, jihad, clod, Mossad, sod, Cape Cod, tog, plod, scrod, facade, roughshod, firing squad, bawd, Izod, ramrod, pod.

I can't think of any more rhymes right now. I feel like such a dope!

Hmmm... we're figuring out this word with all the speed of a snail or a slug.

//Psst, Jim! #2?!//

Lexicographically: "characterized by stylish dress"
At the same time, I should probablY stress
That "__ __ __" came into use during a decade
Believed "discredited" by Conservatives*. Was it said,
OR written, all that much, for that matter?
Iʻll drop the topic, lest I add to the chatter.

*Not that Iʻm one of them.

//Roland, it's the Mormon connection. Mormon's believe in blood atonement and a firing squad allows for that. I believe it's at the option of the person to be executed.//

//They get options? Were it me, I'd opt for execution by old age.//

In Cymraeg, there's congress of bards. Wanna go? I do...

#33 Crambo is still no clod.

#34, 36... okay folks, have you been dipping into the pernod? (Also not Crambo, by the way)
Any more duplicate guesses, and I'll dissolve into Crambo's word. Yes, this is a hint.

#39 Uh oh, Welsh. Could it be Gwynfardd?

NOT, not, not: Mod, gastropod, god squad, trod, jihad, clod, Mossad, sod, Cape Cod, tog, plod, scrod, facade, roughshod, firing squad, bawd, Izod, ramrod, pod, Gwynfardd.

//I'd chose exsanguination by someone's razor wit.//

//Please, Pernod rhymes with grow.//

//Dissolve, eh... thinking...//

Are you daft or just a complete ass? #33 isn't clod.

re: #39 - The guess is Welsh alright, but not Gwynfardd. (Maybe all Welsh words rhyme with hot rod!)

I know a lot about fictional Algerian kings...and I'm an expert on Renaissance poetry...and I'm the world's foremost authority on Italian literature.

//I can't think of any clues for #12, but maybe Alexei Leonov could.//

Here's your next batch! *hoists a strange implement toward the bricklayer working atop the scaffolding*

(I would rhyme Pernod with something like awe, and isn't the Welsh -dd pronounced -th?)

//re #35 boy I was even tireder than I realized last night! Today I realize it.//

RE: #45 (Darsu's comment)... I thought the same thing, that the Welsh -dd was pronounced like -th, but when I checked the pronunciation on dictionary.com the little voice clearly pronounced it as a -d. Maybe when you say a Welsh word in English the -th reverts to a -dd sound. Who knows?

It's such a lovely day, I believe I'll get my parasol and take a stroll along a long stretch of open level ground (paved or grassy) for walking beside the seashore.

2 guesses

People in my hood call it gouda, or just plain cheese. //Guess is also slang, but different variety.//

a 2-word sentence on U. S. currency could be translated by the
9-word sentence: "She* gave the __ __ __ to what they* had
begun."

*She: though really without gender, could be, and often is, called "he".
(Also rhymes with __ __ __.)

they: guess it means those semi-divine "Founding Fathers".

#42 Why, I'd like to think that I'm both daft *and* a complete ass, thank you kindly. Not to mention odd. (Right this time?)

#43 Eisteddfod? At least that one has only one "d" at the end, so there's a fighting chance it does rhyme.

#12 Voskhod! Thanks for the hints... I'd never have gotten it!
#44 And now you've stumped me again. "Kim Jong-il" just won't rhyme. And "God" won't read Italian lit since Dante made Satan more interesting than Him.

#45 Ooh, a hod! I want one! I'm obsessed with masonry. Sad but true. //My native accent would rhyme Pernod with glow, but after 20 years here in we-refuse-to-be-French land, I've picked up repulsive habits.//

#48 Ah, to promenade along the esplanade this lovely evening. While eyeing the sea wall's construction, of course.

#49 Money. Hmm, is it wad?

#50 Nod if this is the word.

Not: Mod, gastropod, god squad, trod, jihad, clod, Mossad, sod, Cape Cod, tog, plod, scrod, facade, roughshod, firing squad, bawd, Izod, ramrod, pod, Gwynfardd, odd, Eisteddfod, Voskhod, hod, promenade, esplanade, wad, nod.

Don't focus on "dissolve." Crambo is 2 syllable abstract noun and is most used in the plural, but not always.

One of the howling things that people got in Infinite Jest?

On 50-51:

Iʻm nodding.

Pedantic footnote on 51:

Wasnʻt it Milton, not Dante who "made Satan more interesting"?

Eisteddfod is was, indeed. (I'd even forgotten that there was only one -d at the end when I commented on the whole -dd = -th thing. And in another pedantic aside on Welsh pronunciation (you never know where Crambo will lead you!) it's important to know that the f is Eisteddfod is pronounced as a v. At least it's important if you ever attend one.

New guess - An obscure variant spelling for one of the most valuable gemstones. The Faerie Queene always wore her's when she went out in the evening.

If you suspect that a man's death is merely a sham or pretense, prick his corpse with a pin; that "sounds like" a good way to piece the clues together.

For #44, you got the overall tenor of this four-syllable noun; those particular examples are meant to convey that the word is derived from the name of a fictional Algerian king in an Italian Renaissance poem.

//This is what I love about LibraryThing. Where else would people discuss Welsh pronunciation, Dante, Milton, David Foster Wallace, Spenser, and Italian poetry all in the same thread?//

//Not that Dante isn't Italian poetry, of course; but I didn't want to give away the name of the poet for #44, who died 173 years after Dante.//

#54 Sigh. Of course you're right, Roland. I should not play Crambo when my wits have gone to bed ahead of me.

#55 emeraud

#56 prod?
#44/57 I just can't get any farther than Poliziano, aka Angelo Ambrogini, or Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Alas.
//Me too. Where but LT can you have these conversations?//

But of course, #52! Darsu has guessed Crambo. FANTOD, a wonderful word that will hopefully be more popular after David Foster Wallace's howlings.

Take it away, darsu!

//Okay, enough procrastination. Time for the final go-over of the book proofs. They're here, and I posted the cover for anyone who'd like to take a peek. If any of you erudite ladies and gentlemen have advice for a first-time author about to be published by a small (well, tiny) press, I'd love to hear it!//

In #56, I was going for "charade" ("sham or pretense"), the corpse-pricking test being a plot point in the classic 1963 film by that name. The second half of #56 referred to the game of charades, the plural being more common than the singular, as you hinted in #51. And yes, I'm one of those who pronounce "charade" to rhyme with "rod" rather than "raid."

The empty boasting in #44 was "rodomontade," derived from Rodomonte, the king of Algiers in Matteo Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato.

Best of luck with your forthcoming book, 7sistersapphist!

#42 Why, I'd like to think that I'm both daft *and* a complete ass, thank you kindly. Not to mention odd. (Right this time?)

I was going for nimrod. ;)

Congrats on your your book! No advice, but I'm wishing you great luck with it!

A Tennyson heroine and, once, a well-
Known feminine name; itʻs hard to tell
If this means a Tenny-
-son Revival: Any?
Ideas on that? Already IN
the "Nots"s is an of this near-homonym.

Roland, we're done here! (#58) What was that movie where the football player kept on running and they had to have the crowd tell him to stop? ;)

Darsu started the new game over here