We have a winner.
Puzzle-nuzzling reader John E Bravo was the first to correctly solve our Poetry Day Ireland crossword (answers below) from yesterday.
John wins a bespoke Limerick (below) from ‘rick machine John Moynes tucked into a copy of the Seamus Heaney edition of Poetry Ireland Review.
A Limerick for John E Bravo
A commenter called John E B,
Who I’ve heard’s well versed in poetry,
Was the first one to choose,
To solve all the clues,
About poets, expressed cryptically.
John Moynes
Bravo Maestro.
Thanks all.
Across: Ode; Dán; Keats; Quatrain; Butler; Longly (sic – Longley); Faber; Pearse; Boland; Haiku
Down: Seamus Heaney; Dedalus (sic: that’s his Da); T S Eliot; Inishfree; Burns; Gallery; Kavanagh; Salmon.
Thanks Moira Cardiff
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Who is Yeat. (6 down) tut tut
Drat. A sic un-sicced. I’m sickened.
That’s patched up now Annie, thanks for your close reading!
I’d prefer Yeats’s, but the free software is free for a reason.
Hurray! Thanks Moynesy. Take that, Limerick. John E B Goode.
That’s a corker! Mayo the best man win!
Fair play :)
A limerick penned in your name, Bravo; how will you ever live with fame and status this brings?
No way, I’ve been big time for a long time, ever since the O’Sheadenfreude business https://www.broadsheet.ie/2014/10/15/osheadenfreude/
also, I’m poor at replying correctly. @Zarathustra
Big is good – especially for a long time.
A limerick written about you and you’ve pulled. A good day, Johnnie B.
… I think I scared him off, Mr Fex.
Apologies all – was on the piss; celebrating?
Second prize, two limericks?