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The
Letter Bank
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Using
each of the letters of the letter bank word (LBW)
at least once, and by
withdrawing as many of each letter as you require,
solve the following clues:
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Issue#
LBW
001 SCORE
002 NOTICE
003 HEART
004 BREAD
LBW
= POETRY
1. the manufacture of clayware [7]
2. something owned [8]
3. archetype [9]
4. variety of theatrical company [9]
LBW
= SERVE
1. tachometer units [4]
2. poetry [5]
3. changes course [5]
4. Canadian municipal officials [6]
5. austere [6]
6. local area network hubs [7]
7. opposite order [7]
8. worships [7]
LBW
= ALGAE
1. strong wind current [4]
2. Scottish Highlander [4]
3. anatomical feature suggesting a helmet [5]
4. better than a birdie [5]
5. lawful [5]
6. when geese are not in a skein, they are this, collectively [6]
7. assert without proof [6]
LBW
= SPORE
1. helpless: on the ______ [5]
2. literary medium distinguished from poetry [5]
3. a puzzling question [5]
4. lie at rest [6]
5. tedious [7]
6. coffee bar order [8]
7. the Tempest's rightful Duke of Milan [8]
8. makes an offer of marriage [8]
7. tyrant [9]
LBW
= POLE
1. run with an easy, steady gait [4]
2. run away with your lover [5]
3. shipbuilding centre of Southern England [5]
4. human beings [6]
5. a choppy sea [6]
LBW
= FINGER
1. peripheral area [6]
2. liberating [7]
3. freeing from impurities [8]
4. encroach upon [8]
5. sending to another for aid, treatment or decision [9]
6. American painter Lyonel Charles Adrian _____ [9]
7. mobile fire extinguisher [4 6]
8. third digit of the left hand [4 6]
9. adjudicating a hockey match [10]
LBW
= SPROUT
1. French novelist, Marcel ______ [6]
2. serve as a foundation or prop [7]
3. in a state of apathy or torpor [9]
4. claims [8]
LBW
= TEACH
1. a case for carrying business papers [7]
2. a seal of official approval [6]
3. to invest with mental or emotional energy [7]
4. influence by deceit [5]
5. a speedy and spotted cat [7]
6. small handled ax [7]
7. Greek goddess of the Underworld [6]
LBW
= RAGE
1. equipment
[4]
2. keen [5]
3. consent [5]
4. car shelter [6]
5. Marley's musical genre [6]
6. something unpaid or overdue [9]
LBW
= CREATE
1. to provide a supply of food [5]
2. a box made of wooden slats [5]
3. depression formed by the impact of a meteorite [6]
4. and so forth [8]
5. the competitive world of business is called the ___ _____ [3 4]
6. respond to a stimulus [5]
7. to draw back in (as claws) [7]
8. a raised embankment with the top levelled [7]
LBW
= ANIMAL
1. Philippines port city [6]
2. city of northern Italy [5]
3. a thin plate or scale [6]
4. barely perceptible [7]
5. like a warm-blooded higher vertebrate covered by hair and skin...
[9]
6. letter carrier [7]
7. the least possible [8]
LBW
= tarted
1. deserved [5]
2. to step or walk on or over [5]
3. occupation requiring manual skill [5]
4. moved with sudden speed [6]
5. informed on one's associates [6]
6. impede [6]
7. it preceded "feathered" [6]
8. a group or arrangement of four [6]
9. impregnated (soil) with oxygen [7]
10. damned (using a mild oath) [7]
11. to make over, as new [7]
12. torn to shreds; ragged [8]
13. remove the air or gas from [8]
14. made a hasty withdrawal from the battlefield [9]
LBW
= INERT
1. threefold [5]
2. saltpeter [5]
3. bury [5]
4. one who applies dyes [6]
5. smaller [6]
6. complete; intact [6]
7. __NO2 [7]
8. smaller [7]
9. POW [8]
10. How you got this puzzle (8)
LBW
= it is a matter of TASTE
1. the altar end of a church [4]
2. to appease a thirst [4]
3. an item of value owned [5]
4. tantalize [5]
5. nipples [5]
6. child's imaginative play item (one lump or two?) [3 3]
7. a slowing of the circulation of blood [6]
8. to affirm to be true or genuine [6]
9. on an open water voyage [2 3]
10. military formation posture and command [2 4]
11. social rank or position; the first _______ is the clergy [6]
12. having left a valid will [7]
LBW
= TUNER
1. a spayed or castrated animal [6]
2. pass back to an earlier possessor [6]
3. teacher's status that gives protection from summary dismissal [6]
4. a deep covered serving bowl [6]
5. English painter, 1775-1851, Joseph Mallord ________ [6]
6. false [6]
7. self-restaint [7]
8. supply with nourishment [7]
LBW
= SACRED
1. frightened [6]
2. tall coniferous trees [6]
3. showing lasting signs of injury [7]
4. workers who collect fibers for spinning [7]
5. like dress pants [7]
6. where kids feed coins into video games [7]
7. touched lovingly [8]
8. grew less in size or amount [9]
LBW
= STONE
1. musical
sounds [5]
2. the start [5]
3. records or preserves in writing [5]
4. urge the dogs to attack [3 2]
5. mortises mates [6]
6. massive metrical units [6]
7. verse form - comes in English and Italian varieties [6]
8. at the first opportunity [7]
9. broad-brimmed felt hat [7]
and
a few more courtesy of Bill Flis
10.
competing directly [4 2 4]
11. vigilant [2 3'1 4]
12. just in time [4 3 4]
LBW
= a part of a meal served at one time [6] COURSE
1. he is shipwrecked on an island for
28 years [6]
2. containing cerium [6]
3. brisk; lively (Scottish) [6]
4. point of origin [6]
5. a spirited horse [7]
6. a very rich man (named after a wealthy king of Lydia) [7]
7. one who cleanses with considerable elbow grease [7]
8. native or inhabitant of Liverpool, England [7]
9. C12H22O11; sugar derived from sugarcane [7]
10. herbs of the iris family, having long-tubed flowers [8]
11. a source of help or strength [8]
12. magical [9]
13. heir; one that follows [9]
LBW
= BEHIND A SHIP (6)
1.
those who seek sun-darkened skin [7]
2. proximate [7]
3. talks a great deal about nothing [7]
4. grave; characterized by a serious state of mind [7]
5. the brightest star in Scorpio [7]
6. tells a story [8]
7. acidity [8]
8. one who agrees or concurs [8]
9. substance that stimulates an insect to stop moving [9]
10. Nova Scotians, New Yorkers, and the like. [10]
11. Long-nosed members of the order 'Edentata' [9]
12. Contest participants [8]
I
have devised Letter Banks for the written numbers
from ONE to TEN, where possible.
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LBW = ONE
1. a long time [3]
2. prefix meaning 'new' [3]
3. an inert gas or perky auto? [4]
4. word meaning 'not any' [4]
5. no person [2 3]
6. nymph abandoned by Paris for Helen of Troy [6]
7. two player basketball scrimmage [3-2-3]
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LBW = TWO
1. to haul [3]
2. (Brit.) to know [3]
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LBW = THREE
1. the fifth element - thought to occupy the superlunar realm [5]
2. Amer. secretary of state (1959-61) Christian Archibald ___ [6]
3. object for baby-biting [7]
4. the limit of one's strength or resources [6]
5. in or at that place [5]
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LBW = FOUR
1. rage; angry fit [5]
2. rustlings of a woman's skirts [8]
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LBW = SIX
1. the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet (plural) [3]
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LBW = SEVEN
1. equality [8]
2. city in SE Brazil [5]
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LBW = EIGHT
1. octal fraction [6]
2. the previous answer divided by ten [9]
3. summit [6]
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LBW = TEN
1. international understanding providing for a common action [7]
2. entrapping device [3]
3. a youth, such that age >12 and age <20 [4]
4. belief generally held to be true [5]
5. camping shelter [4]
LBW
= ELEVEN
1. Loch in the Scottish Highlands [5]
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LBW = TWELVE
none possible that I could reckon
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LBW = THIRTEEN
1. one who drops clues to convey information by allusion? [6]
2. intrinsic [8]
3. to receive from ancestors by genetic transmission [7]
4. also not [7]
5. in that particular or respect [7]
6. leaner [7]
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LBW = FOURTEEN
1. your destiny, or the wealth and riches it may bring [7]
2. leading contestant [5-6]
3. a verse containing seven iambic feet [10]
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LBW = FIFTEEN
1. a mock blow [5]
2. having definable limits [6]
3.inexhaustible, as patience [8]
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LBW = SIXTEEN
1. having being [8]
2. a variant spelling for that famous Vatican chapel [7]
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LBW = SEVENTEEN
1. contests in sports programs [6]
2. American poet. 1879-1955, Wallace ______ [7]
3. outlets of passage, escape or release [5]
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LBW = EIGHTEEN
1. augment; increase the amount or degree of [8]
2. sleeping garment for a woman or child [7]
3. baby's first sore gums come at this stage [8]
4. turn the bolt clockwise [7]
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LBW = NINETEEN
1. purpose, esp. to commit a wrongful act [6]
2. variant spelling of Scottish word for attentive [6]
3. a book that inspired or was inspired by a movie or television show
[3-2]
4. pointed branch of a antler [4]
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LBW = TWENTY
1. tiny [5-5]
2. normal visual acuity [6-6]
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