Fair maiden of ___, most feared in these parts,
with terrible power thou ___ men's hearts.
The beaux of all kingdoms thou ___ to doom;
thy ___ and light they seek, but find their tomb.
Excited, the ___ all play, sing and dance;
each soldier and ___ falls under your trance.
The suitors all ___ wi...
The thing I've put there does kinda make sense, but the structure of the sentence seems gratuitously contorted if it's right. (Though I'm not sure how it would be less so with anything else, whatever it might mean...)
It might just be that cramming them all in required a somewhat contorted sentence structure :-).
yay, turns out my word for line 8 was in fact correct
hmm, two questions, what's the difference between "lustre" and "luster" (because i thought they were merely different in spelling and not meaning), and how does "luster" relate to "peasants and lords"?
@Jafe I guess that's true (noun sense 1), although it's still weird (to me at least) because I'd be more inclined to interpret needing something as a consequence of lacking something; they're not exactly the same action
Actually looking through the chat y'all found another possible parsing and I'm off to bed anyways so I'll just share the intended wp (I think that makes @oAlt up next)
My intention was was "clear" = HIP ("to give information to", verb def 11 here and "dance" = HOP (as in a place where a dance is occurring); I originally had "cool dance", where "cool" = HIP, but that def of "hip" is where the genre got its name
Ironically, after all my etymology-checking, I completely forgot "hip hop" was also a dance....
the way i understand the use of "about" as an anagram indicator (MW saving the day again), it seems that it would be more proper to do "[fodder] about" compared to "about [fodder]", so i think your feelings and the iffiness of the indicator are validated @Ankoganit
i've been under the impression that "x about" is ok but not "about x" and i've certainly seen the former used before, but come to think of it i can't actually come up with a sentence where "about" would mean something like anagramming in an actual sentence
also, before anyone checks, Mr. Popular is not an actual musical... the clue just wouldn't work with Mr. President
nope, "Berlin's Mr." = "translation of Mr. in Germany" = "Herr", then popular = "in" (i only know this because of learning some cryptic clue tricks; i would never say "dude this t-shirt brand is so in" in real life), all coming before "finale of Irving" (which is g)
However, the confusion is slightly excusable; for best wordplay there should be a comma after "before finale of Irving". That would make the surface awkward, though, which is why I think Jafe didn't include it
CCCC: Initially, President eating dinner outside is not depicted (7)
