Questions tagged [limerick]
A limerick is a 5-line poem with a strict AABBA rhyme scheme, often with five-line anapestic meter, sometimes obscene with humorous intent.
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Is there a limerick-style cryptic clue?
Is there a cryptic clue that happens to be a limerick?
Please also include the answer in spoilers.
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I make billions (#4)
I make billions (#4)
For years did a sharp little verse,
Grow fast in our ears like a curse,
A tune on TV,
Did subconsciously,
Cause all to spend much from their purse,
Who / what am ...
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A Chwistmas Widdle With a Twist
Chwistmas is the same with or without me, though I do wish you all Mewwy Chwistmas...
I wish to be wid of my condition
I am named and famed with humiliation
A small happy square wheel! That's my goal
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Wikipedia Says So #3
Previous puzzles in series: #1, #2
A reference to the order to cite
The works of those who write
And star and edit
And even more get credit!
It's about the boring part of the night.
Hint 1:...
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Empire Leftovers
Everyone uses me to climb higher
Some use me to put out fires
Say, something's fishy?
Then something is a-me!
Me, the leftover from an Empire
What am I?
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What is my favorite color?
Oh the sweet joys of favoritism! I have another puzzle for the community; as always good luck to you all, and I hope you enjoy it!
Go to the bottom you'll see.
Rounded but right there with me.
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How much do you know about the internet?
The Internet
The internet is a marvelous invention. Did you know it was created by the government in the sixties, but made popular in the nineties?
Today everyone uses it, and it is becoming an ...
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Good Little Monsters
Though I am small, hairy, and green
(And once was quite scary, obscene!),
Your wars can't defeat me.
You now want to eat me!
But don't let your friends intervene.
Hint:
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I live in a spaceship
I live in a spaceship that travels so 快地,
along with a doctor who I find 真帅的,
my features are 美丽,
my name rhymes with 内力,
it's my job to fix if the engine goes 坏了.
Who am I?
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How about a Limeriddle?
My start is bad electrically,
My end is something theoretically,
I’m bringing you here,
‘Cause you need to adhere,
Because we control you technically.
What am I?
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Ts! It's itsy-bitsy limericks time!
(1)
Once I and one more sneaky ass Planned heist of a hideous mass. - Let's steal all the (^-^)! - Man, hold up your (^-^). - (^-^). Then, let's steal all the grass!
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- My man, you look ...
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Cryptic Country 4
I have northen football that can unite
A flying city that will always fight
Festive in the south
A big man with a mouth
And mistaken as the greater might
Name the country
Hint 1
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Starts with an R
A fashionable part of the blues
I am whatever you don't choose
I start with an R
My messages go far
But maybe just after this snooze.
What am I?
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Simple Maths Riddle 4
I cheer, I shout, I scream
My growth is too extreme
I'm way too vast
Rates too fast
Continuity can only be my dream.
What am I?
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Simple Maths Riddle 3
My counterpart has committed multiple crimes;
Square us and add: the result is not prime.
You use me for a reason;
I'm not liked by Cartesians;
My converse is a measurement of time.
What am I?
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