Complete the poem (A) - (FF), with 32 words which fit the poem's theme. The final answer is a double example of the theme. Some you will be able to work out from just reading it, for the others there are clues below.
Count up the letters in your answers for the formula. Hope you have fun solving this puzzle!
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'I' before 'E' except after 'C'
is one of those (A), (B) rules
to which (C) gets paid
in (D) and in schools.
It's (E) (F) nor needed
It's just not worth (G).
The saying (H) anger
as it's (I) and misleading.
It's time it (J) no longer
the rule (K) of little use
it's (L), a (M) of hand
and only serves to (N) the truth.
The phrase makes us feel (O)
a different (P) altogether
for it's (Q) (R)
(S) a true life of (T).
Surely a rule that's (U)
should therein bear it's (V).
Yes a few exceptions can (W)
but not (X) hundred and (X).
It is now (Y) our minds
due to lack of (Z) and punch
soon to fall from a great (AA)
with a loud (BB) crunch.
Sorry to inveigh so (CC)
and deign to perpetrate this (DD)
let's (EE) the day and cease this phrase
it's time to get with the (FF).
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(A) - Unusual, odd, unnatural, eerie or unearthly.
(B) - Very old, belonging to the distant past.
(C) - Deferential respect; a gesture such as a bow or curtsy.
(D) - Group of people in a community. An organisation or club.
(E) - Word used before two alternatives in a negative statement.
(F) - Enough, adequate, suitable.
(G) - Viewing, watching, observing.
(H) - To cause something to burn or catch fire again.
(I) - Strange, peculiar, alien; overseas.
(J) - Governed, ruled (e.g. a monarch).
(K) - Existence, actuality.
(L) - Fake, forged (e.g a banknote).
(M) - Deftness, quickness.
(N) - Mask, cover, conceal, disguise. Thin material covering a face.
(O) - Beastly, brutish; a legendary monster + ish.
(P) - A group of living organisms.
(Q) - Odious, atrocious, wicked, evil (usually a crime or wrongful act).
(R) - Insufficiencies, shortages, deficits.
(S) - Lose or be deprived of something as a penalty for wrongdoing.
(T) - Free time for enjoyment when one is not working. Recreation.
(U) - Wishing to do one's work well and thoroughly, being diligent.
(V) - Heaviness, mass.
(W) - Strengthen an existing idea. Strengthen, support with extra material.
(X) - The number after seven.
(Y) - Running away (e.g. from a place or situation of danger).
(Z) - One of the main nutritional food groups.
(AA) - How tall something is.
(BB) - Of enormous proportions or effect (usually associated with earthquakes).
(CC) - In a manner of a person (typically one who is small) lively, determined, courageous. (ends ily)
(DD) - A bank robbery. Considered a crime film subgenre.
(EE) - Take hold of something suddenly and forcibly. Grab, grasp, snatch.
(FF) - The defining spirit/mood of a period of history, shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time.
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N51 2 ( B + S + O - J - I ) . ( E + F - BB - G ) ( P + Q - CC - DD) ( R - A - Y )
W02 3 ( V + Z + H - EE - FF) . ( L + U - W - AA ) (( X + N ) - ( D / M )) ( C + J - T - K )