Crambo's word rhymes with "knavish tricks"

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Crambo's word rhymes with "knavish tricks"

1rodneyvc
Feb 23, 2012, 5:57 am

Struggling to clamber back into a 21st century mind set, Crambo's new work has slightly technical flavour.

2defaults
Edited: Feb 23, 2012, 6:58 am

A pregnancy-related subfield of medicine?

3Jim53
Feb 23, 2012, 9:06 am

Images created by assembling chips or pieces of colored glass or stone?

4justjim
Feb 23, 2012, 9:59 am

It's just another (actually, we'll need more than one), basic building block for a wall.

5Citizenjoyce
Feb 23, 2012, 4:30 pm

How about a field of medicine related to care of the elderly?

6rolandperkins
Feb 23, 2012, 5:43 pm

Feeling an obligation (however irrationally) to make all three syllables rhyme, and so asking "how does "geria-" rhyme with "knavish"?

Or could I be wrong about the rhyme scheme?

7rodneyvc
Feb 23, 2012, 5:54 pm

#2 Congratulations - you've delivered the first suggestion
#3 I encountered some very impressive mosaics on a visit to Bath
#4 Ahh... Pink Floyd. I think I might still have a schoolboy cassette copy of at least Dark Side of the Moon!
#5 The name (in English translation) of the oldest character in the Goscinny and Uderzo comics. Park Asterix outside a Paris is definitely worth a visit.

Not: bricks, geriatrics, obstetrics, mosaics

8Jim53
Feb 23, 2012, 8:39 pm

I used to teach several levels of this field, including algebra and trigonometry.

9rolandperkins
Edited: Feb 23, 2012, 8:46 pm

It uses a long (or stressed) followed by
A short (or unstressed): Thatʻs why
They call its lines __ __ __ __ __ __ __
(They can be, but arenʻt necessarily, archaics.)

10rodneyvc
Feb 23, 2012, 9:48 pm

#8 Gauss's "Queen of the sciences". I have learned of her kingdom, but not plumbed its depths!

#9 I thought that long followed by short were trochaics, and short followed by long were iambics. Two longs are clown feet!

Not: bricks, geriatrics, iambics, obstetrics, mathematics, mosaics, spondaics, trochaics

11rolandperkins
Edited: Feb 24, 2012, 3:19 am

On 9, 10: Yes. "Trochaics" was the guess (See last item in the "Npt" List.)
"I thought that long followed by
short were trochaics. . ." (10)
Me, too. AND thought that that was what I wrote in 9. The
dicitonary gave me the opton of "Stressed" rather than long
and "unstressed" rather than short. Cancel these options and youʻve got what you "thought".

12defaults
Feb 24, 2012, 3:34 am

Component A is produced in location K, the upper half of component Z is produced in location C and the lower half in location Y, the panel screen printing has been outsourced to a facility in D, final assembly is done in location G and then we need to get it all into location B for inspection and gluing the "Made in USA" labels. That takes a precisely synchronized system of cargo planes and trucks.

13rodneyvc
Edited: Feb 24, 2012, 7:57 am

#12: What a complicated process. Sounds like a logistical nightmare!

Not: bricks, geriatrics, iambics, logistics, obstetrics, mathematics, mosaics, spondaics, trochaics

Crambo's word is touchable.

14defaults
Feb 24, 2012, 8:59 am

Does Crambo's word also touch — eg. with a whip — while dressing minimally in black leather and high heeled boots?

15Jim53
Feb 24, 2012, 2:02 pm

49er fans will get this one quickly: these taper-holders are often given as gifts, and can be made of wood, glass, or other tangible materials.

16rodneyvc
Feb 24, 2012, 4:02 pm

#14 Absolutely not, mistress! But, in the end, there's a bit of you I like.
#15 Are butchers, bakers, and candlestick makers baseball fans?

Not: bricks, candlesticks, dominatrix, geriatrics, iambics, logistics, obstetrics, mathematics, mosaics, spondaics, trochaics

17Jim53
Feb 24, 2012, 8:59 pm

// Baseball fans? The original "Candlestick makers" certainly were, building the park to lure the Giants from New York. Now, alas, the team has moved to more spacious accomodations, leaving only the gridders in the 'Stick. //

New guess: a large antelope?

187sistersapphist
Feb 24, 2012, 10:20 pm

Don't open that ____. If you touch the Host, the priest will be furious.

19jpyvr
Feb 25, 2012, 7:47 am

Poor, sad junkies are always looking for the next one.

20justjim
Feb 25, 2012, 8:16 am

Ah, such beautiful strength, two, three. And repeat, two three. And relax?

21rodneyvc
Edited: Feb 25, 2012, 8:31 am

#17 I'm on the long pointy horns of a dilemma here - this suggestion almost prompts another clue.
#18 A sound-alike of this was the name of an independent movie theatre where I grew up. Choc Tops at interval. Yum.
#19 Another, almost Asterix, evocation - this time of Getafix the Druid

Not: bricks, candlesticks, dominatrix, fix, geriatrics, iambics, logistics, obstetrics, oryx, mathematics, mosaics, pyx, spondaics, trochaics

22rolandperkins
Feb 25, 2012, 4:31 pm

Its outstanding ability was coming back to life
After cremation. And, during the strife
Of bringing Philoctetes to Troy from Lem-
-nos
, they found a senior who wouldnʻt hem-
and-haw about the assignment; and who had
the name of the above-mentioned bird. Sad?
-Not entirely, as it turned out; any way the old
Guy was left out of Sophoclesʻs play. Iʻm told
Though, that he was second only to Nest-
-or as a wise Senior. I ʻve done my best.

23Citizenjoyce
Feb 25, 2012, 5:49 pm

Could Crambo refer to presidential candidates from the last cycle who tried to portray theselves as persons of independent or unorthodox views?

24rolandperkins
Feb 25, 2012, 5:59 pm

__ __ __ __ __ __ s are controversial, impromptu groupings; a word sometimes pronounced as if it rhymed
with ". . .tricks". More often (and more correctly?) , however, as if it rhymed with "reeks".

25Jim53
Feb 25, 2012, 10:27 pm

This sort of array of numbers can represent a linear transformation, or perhaps a new way to look at reality.

26rodneyvc
Edited: Feb 25, 2012, 11:46 pm

#20 Sorry Jim - I didn't spot you popping in - our posts must have coincided. You made me think simultaneously of leotards and rods, and Perelandra! Bizarre!

#22 As Glen Campbell sang: "By the time I get to Phoenix she'll be rising" - was that really a classical reference?!
#23 I never knew James Garner ran for president - I thought that was Ronald Reagan!
#24 To misquote Groucho: I don’t care to belong to any clique that will have me as a member.
#25 And another Jim has popped in! Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here: Why oh why didn't I take the BLUE pill

Crambo's word sounds plural but isn't.

Not: bricks, calisthenics, candlesticks, cliques, dominatrix, fix, geriatrics, iambics, logistics, matrix, obstetrics, oryx, mathematics, mavericks, mosaics, phoenix, pyx, spondaics, trochaics

27justjim
Feb 26, 2012, 12:49 am

A small flightless bird that says "fush and chups"?

28rolandperkins
Feb 26, 2012, 12:53 am

You have to be at least 70 to remember:
"The Tom __ __ __ Ralston Straight-Shooters
are ON the (radio) AIR!" (M -- F, 15 min. per episode)

29defaults
Feb 26, 2012, 1:49 am

Flower component,
or component of kidney—
cup-shaped, I presume

30rodneyvc
Edited: Feb 26, 2012, 5:01 am

#27 The kiwi is one of the Apteryx species - I've just learned something, even though I was born there
#28 I'm afraid I'm too young to remember
#29 A calyx is the collection of usually green sepals that protect the petals when the flower is in bud.

Not: Apteryx, bricks, calisthenics, candlesticks, cliques, dominatrix, fix, geriatrics, iambics, logistics, matrix, mix, obstetrics, oryx, mathematics, mavericks, mosaics, phoenix, pyx, spondaics, trochaics

Crambo's word was: calyx

I was starting to wonder whether I'd been stingy with the clues, but no, congratulations darsu - over to you.