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Issue N° 31 – October-December 2012 Journal of the Department of English Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Faculty of Letters, Beni Mellal, Morocco. Editor: Khalid Chaouch. INSIDE THIS ISSUE Editorial: One, two, three... fingerprint! … 02 Pedagogical Page: ‘Bibliography Presentation’ 04 Pen Circle Prize (2012/2013) … 06 The Poet’s Corner: ‘Slough’ by Sir John Betjeman … 07 ‘Recuerdo’ by Edna St. Vincent Millay … 08 ‘The Schoolboy Man’ by Hamid Masfour, SLCE Master (2011-2013) … 09 Call for Articles: Border Crossing10 “The Making of a Novelist” by Somerset Maugham … 12 English Department Activities 14 My Pungent Quotations: Thus Spoke Robert Frost … 16 Proverbs of the Moment: Action and Deeds … 17 My Enigmatic Pen Circles 18 20 Clues 19 Crosswords N° 31... 20 Pen Circle Sultan Moulay Slimane University Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Department of English BP. 524, Beni Mellal, Morocco. Fax: 212 (0) 5 23 48 17 69 Email : [email protected] Pen Circle is also available at www.flshbm.ma Départements L. L. Anglaises Editorial Board Mly. Lmustapha MAMAOUI, Mohamed RAKII, Redouan SAÏDI. Sermo in circulis est liberior. “Learning is like rowing upstream. Once you stop, you drift back.” Chinese Proverb

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Page 1: Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Faculty of Letters, … · Issue N° 31 – October-December 2012 Journal of the Department of English Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Faculty

Issue N° 31 – October-December 2012 Journal of the Department of English

Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Faculty of Letters, Beni Mellal, Morocco. Editor: Khalid Chaouch. INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Editorial: One, two, three... fingerprint! … 02 Pedagogical Page: ‘Bibliography Presentation’ … 04 Pen Circle Prize (2012/2013) … 06 The Poet’s Corner: ‘Slough’ by Sir John Betjeman … 07 ‘Recuerdo’ by Edna St. Vincent Millay … 08 ‘The Schoolboy Man’ by Hamid Masfour, SLCE Master (2011-2013) … 09 Call for Articles: Border Crossing… 10 “The Making of a Novelist” by Somerset Maugham … 12 English Department Activities … 14 My Pungent Quotations: Thus Spoke Robert Frost … 16 Proverbs of the Moment: Action and Deeds … 17 My Enigmatic Pen Circles … 18 20 Clues … 19 Crosswords N° 31... 20 ⇒ Pen Circle Sultan Moulay Slimane University Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Department of English BP. 524, Beni Mellal, Morocco. Fax: 212 (0) 5 23 48 17 69 Email: [email protected] Pen Circle is also available at www.flshbm.ma Départements L. L. Anglaises

Editorial Board Mly. Lmustapha MAMAOUI, Mohamed RAKII, Redouan SAÏDI.

Sermo in circulis est liberior.

“Learning is like rowing

upstream. Once you stop, you drift back.”

Chinese Proverb

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EDITORIAL

One, Two, Three, Fingerprint!

Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme, But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than upswept stone besmeared with sluttish time.

Shakespeare, Sonnet 55

Well said, indeed! Things will forever and ever stand to the test of time if – and only if – they are powerful. But powerful deeds are not given only to Shakespeare, Averroes, or Einstein. They are the lot of anyone who CAN – at any time – produce a work of a lasting effect: a book, a poem, a monument, a work of art, a treatise, a law, a rule, a map, a software, an invention, or a technical device.

A simple scribble on a besmeared tombstone reveals a wealth of information on an empire that crumbled in the night of time. A small rock, in a forlorn desert, inscribed by an idle shepherd, may eternize a no-longer-existing world of lush flora and varied fauna. A set of rickety runes or baffling hieroglyphs breathe long life into underground palaces and buried courts. A single 'suspended' epic ( قةُمعّل ) of old Arab poetry tells and retells the entire anthropology and sociology of a whole nation. A wrinkled stone engraved by a weary hunter in the cavernous depth of a desolate cave might equally revive the lost lore of prehistoric eons. And so does a work that leaves an enduring trace.

Any careful work carried out at an intense moment of deep insight would certainly join the endless string of great works that defy time and oblivion. The more the work is beautiful and appealing to humanity, the greater will be its chances to live and its claims to eternity. Granted, things have changed and humanity has gone a long way. People are no longer inscribing or engraving sketches on 'stone besmeared with sluttish time.' But opportunities

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are greater with each new breakthrough in technology and in thinking modes.

In the realm of academia, both students and researchers have the opportunity to try their chances to 'eternity'. A simple click on the mouse might very well be the beginning of a wonderful beginning of success and fame. The opening succession of clinks on a keyboard might equally set the right notes of a great work. The rickety rough draft on a blueprint might be the prelude to an original treatise in a particular discipline. The first brushes of a tactful pencil might be the sketch of a great masterpiece of art to come. And a short poem, scribbled on a torn paper by an astute mind or a sincere heart at a crucial moment of insight, might very well be the right claimant to genius. Man (male or female) has been claiming for eternity since the dawn of time. Though the nature of Man denies him/her the right to live forever, physically speaking, it is his/her duty to leave deeds that would stand the test of time as long as they serve humanity and, at the same time, represent a living record of the artist.

However, the field of work is not as writable and inscribable as the dunes of the Sahara or the wet sand of a desolate shore. Genius is something that comes with hard work, iron perseverance, a smart sense of time management, and an unfailing stamina. The world is so organized and so complex that one cannot hit at the right tone of genius with a simple wish or a random opportunity. Yet, this is not asking for the impossible. Once we gather the sum of conditions for success, everyone of us can always leave a mark and claim for a place among the great. The blue sky, the shining sun, the full moon and the firmament stars are still the lot of all humans, aren't they? So just set to work, use both mind and heart… and you will leave a footprint that would say loud and clear: "I was here!"

Khalid Chaouch

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Pedagogical Page

Bibliography Presentation

Whenever you quote from a document (printed, online or multimedia), it is important to cite your reference(s) in order to enable the reader to locate (and probably to retrieve) the material to which you have referred. You should follow the same style of citing references throughout the whole research paper. There are three ways of using a reference: - Quoting: by using quotation marks. Quotations can be either embedded (four lines or less) or in block formats (five lines or more). - Paraphrasing: clarifying and rewriting an argument using your own words, phrasing and interpretation. When paraphrasing, give the citation where it occurs naturally or at the end of the relevant sentence or paragraph - Summarizing: by distilling/condensing the main ideas (the essentials) of a relatively long passage and stating them in one's own words Links to the main citation styles MLA Style (Modern Language Association of America): mainly in the field of Humanities

http://library.concordia.ca/help/howto/mla.php

Columbia Online Style (COS): a synthesis of styles designed for citing online material

http://www.readerly-writerlytexts.com/mla_and_other_styles.htm

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729.10.10.1351450657&__utmc=185732729&__utmx=-&__utmz=185732729.1351450657.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct

)|utmcmd=(none)&__utmv=-&__utmk=226565533

http://www.apastyle.org/learn/tutorials/basics-tutorial.aspx

Chicago Manual Style (CMS): in History and Humanities www.iupui.edu/~uwc/pdf/Chicago Style 15th Ed Turabian 7th Ed.pdf

http://www.iupui.edu/~uwc/pdf/Chicago%20Style%2015th%20Ed%20Turabian%207th%20Ed.pdf

Harvard Style: aka 'Author Date Method' (in Social and Physical Sciences) (p. 13)

http://www.library.dmu.ac.uk/Images/Selfstudy/Harvard.pdf

OSCOLA (Oxford Standard for Citing Legal Authorities) is used in Law studies

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/documents/guides/law/qglaw024.pdf

CBE Style (Council of Biology Editors): used in mathematics, physical sciences and the life sciences

http://www.ketch.alaska.edu/library/help/online-resources/cbe-style.html

Before opting for a particular style, it is essential to refer to one’s supervisor or the editorial rules of the Journal or Magazine when applicable. Source: Research Methodology. SLCE Master Course home page. Oct. 2012-Dec.

2012. Dept. of English, Sultan Moulay Slimane Univ. 05 Nov. 2012 http://usms.ma/usms_moodle/course/view.php?id=87

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Pen Circle Prize

for Mellali Writers in English (2012/2013)

Pen Circle opens the annual competition in creative writing for all students of the Department of English. This aims at encouraging students to express themselves in English.

All students who would like to participate in this competition are required to write an original piece of writing not exceeding two pages: a short story, a poem, an essay, or any form of creative writing. Participants are kindly requested to submit their attempts to a member of the Editorial Board, or to the Department secretary (Mrs. Nadia) or to send them to the Journal email address ([email protected]) before January 31, 2013. As it is the case each year, the members of the jury (professors Redouan Saïdi, Mohamed Rakii, Mly. Lmustapha Mamaoui and Khalid Chaouch) will take into consideration the levels (Semesters) of the candidates so as to give equal chances to all.

Four awards will be given to the winners, each assigned to a Semester (Semesters 1, 3, and 5, in addition to a winner chosen among Master Studies’ students.) The winners will receive the awards and will have their attempts published in the next issue of Pen Circle (N° 32).

Good luck to all!

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The Poet’s Corner

This corner is devoted both to prominent figures in poetry and to ambitious students who dare to embark in the process of creative writing. Students’ attempts should be sent by email or presented in legible handwriting, and submitted to a member of Pen Circle Editorial Board.

Slough

Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now, There isn't grass to graze a cow. Swarm over, Death!

Come, bombs and blow to smithereens Those air -conditioned, bright canteens, Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans, Tinned minds, tinned breath.

Mess up the mess they call a town- A house for ninety-seven down And once a week a half a crown For twenty years.

And get that man with double chin Who'll always cheat and always win, Who washes his repulsive skin In women's tears:

And smash his desk of polished oak And smash his hands so used to stroke And stop his boring dirty joke And make him yell.

But spare the bald young clerks who add The profits of the stinking cad; It's not their fault that they are mad, They've tasted Hell.

It's not their fault they do not know The birdsong from the radio, It's not their fault they often go To Maidenhead

And talk of sport and makes of cars In various bogus-Tudor bars And daren't look up and see the stars

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But belch instead.

In labour-saving homes, with care Their wives frizz out peroxide hair And dry it in synthetic air And paint their nails.

Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough To get it ready for the plough. The cabbages are coming now; The earth exhales.

Sir John Betjeman (1906-1984). Griff Rhys Jones (ed.) The Nation’s Favorite Twentieth Century Poems. London: BBC Books, 1999, pp. 90-91.

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Recuerdo

We were very tired, we were very merry – We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable – But we looked into fire, we leaned across a table, We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon; And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon.

We were very tired, we were very merry – We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. And you ate an apple, and I ate a pear, From a dozen of each we had bought somewhere; And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold, And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold.

We were very tired, we were very merry – We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. We hailed, “Good-morrow, mother!” to a shawl-covered head, And bought a morning paper, which neither of us read; And she wept, ‘God bless you!” for the apples and pears, And we gave her all our money but our subway fares.

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892- 1950)

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The Schoolboy Man

He was a dreamer for a lifetime He’s been turning time into space Bearing the skylines on his face Breathing out a bitter rhyme

He’s been a schoolboy and he’s been a man Played no more and never sang Nothing would keep him young When his toy was his gun

He’s been my land painter He’s drawn and drawn every particle Every rock is his riddle And everything is a center

He’s been dancing to a rocking tree Fell on the air But never cared How long he would be free

In Acre or in Galilee In Haifa or in Jerusalem In the hearts of the deaf or the dumb The schoolboy-man’s been God’s arrow

Hamid MASFOUR SLCE Master Unit (2011-2013)

This poem is taken from Hamid Masfour’s collection of poems, Never Dare Kill the Sun (Rabat: Top Press, 2008.) He is also the author of حمق وصور (Lunacy and Pictures), 2004.

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السلطـان موالي سليمـان جامعة آلية اآلداب والعلوم اإلنسانية شعبة اللغة اإلنجليزية وآدابها

المغرب - بني مالل

The Research Laboratory on Culture and Communication Middle Ground. Journal of Literary and Cultural Encounters.

Beni Mellal, Morocco

Call for Articles: Border Crossing

Borders and Border crossing of whatever type, geographical, cultural, racial, ethnic, linguistic, literary, artistic, etc., are obviously issues of unprecedented import more now than ever before, given both the incessant mutability of the materiality of borderlines and crossings and our ever-shifting re-definitions of the concept of borders and border crossing. In today’s metamodern attitudes towards concept formation in the social/human sciences and critical theory, master notions of Self, centre, hegemony, paradigm, order, purity, etc., are disrupted both from within and without, and are, thereby, rethought and redirected toward new understandings of identity, sameness, otherness, and difference. Yet in the stark management of international relations and world politics, the process of coming or living together in a globalized space has undoubtedly never meant and would not necessarily lead to the collapse of boundaries and lines of division, the crossing of which becomes most often subject to transgression or negotiation that at times culminate in conflictual situations or in the creation of interstitial spaces or Third Space.

…/…

Sultan Moulay Slimane University Faculty of Letters and Humanities

Department of English Beni Mellal, Morocco

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The Research Laboratory on Culture and Communication calls for articles for publication in the fifth issue of its Journal Middle Ground. Journal of Literary and Cultural Encounters. Articles of this issue should cover the concept of Borders, address its current complexities and representations, and explore the diverse types and rites of crossings and passages. Articles may address, but are not necessarily limited to, any aspect of the topic of Borders and Border Crossing, such as:

- The concept and representation of borders and border crossing - Significance of the various types of border crossing/transgression - Thresholds, barriers, walls and borders - Centre and periphery - Experiences of liminality at crossing borders - Typology of border crossing - Rites of passage and initiation - In-between space/Third Space/ interstitial space - Cultural/linguistic/racial/ethnic borderlines. - contact zone / middle ground - Translation as border crossing - Migration, expatriation, exile - Crossbreeding, Miscegenation - Crossing the borders between literary genres - Crossing the borders between different currents of thought - Interdisciplinarity (crossing the borders between fields of knowledge) - Borders between the local, the regional, the national and the global - Regionalism - The concept of border in globalization

Articles, containing the author’s name, email address, affiliation, a postal address, key words and a short bio, should be sent in WORD format to: Khalid Chaouch at [email protected] and [email protected] The deadline for sending proposed articles is 04 January 2013. Notifications of acceptance will be sent on 08 February 2013.

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The making of a novelist …

In my youth, when my instinctive feeling about a book differed from that of authoritative critics, I did not hesitate to conclude that I was wrong. I did not know how often critics accept the conventional view, and it never occurred to me that they could talk with assurance of what they did not know very much about. It was long before I realized that the only thing that mattered to me in a work of art was what I thought about it. I have acquired now a certain confidence in my own judgement, for I have noticed that what I felt instinctively forty years ago about the writers I read then, and what I would not heed because it did not agree with current opinion, is now pretty generally accepted. For all that I still read a great deal of criticism, for I think it a very agreeable form of literary composition. One does not always want to be reading to the profit of one’s soul and there is no pleasanter way of idling away an hour or two than by reading a volume of criticism. It is diverting to agree; it is diverting to differ; and it is always interesting to know what an intelligent man has to say about some writer, Henry More, for instance, or Richardson, whom you have never had occasion to read. But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more profound meanings for the critic, but at second hand they can be of small service to you. I do not read a book for the book’s sake, but for my own. It is not my business to judge it, but to absorb what I can of it, as the amoeba absorbs a particle of a foreign body, and what I cannot assimilate has nothing to do with me. I am not a scholar, a student or a critic; I am a professional writer and now I read

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only what is useful to me professionally. Anyone can write a book that will revolutionize the ideas that have been held for centuries on the Ptolemys and I shall contentedly leave it unread; he can describe an incredibly adventurous journey in the heart of Patagonia and I shall remain ignorant of it. There is no need for the writer of fiction to be an expert on any subject but his own; on the contrary, it is harmful to him, since, human nature being weak, he is hard put to it to resist the temptation of inappositely using his special knowledge. The novelist is ill-advised to be too technical. The practice, which came into fashion in the nineties, of using a multitude of cant terms is tiresome. It should be possible to give verisimilitude without that, and atmosphere is dearly bought at the price of tediousness. The novelist should know something about the great issues that occupy men, who are his topics, but it is generally enough if he knows a little. He must avoid pedantry at all costs. But even at that the field is vast, and I have tried to limit myself to such works as were significant to my purpose. You can never know enough about your characters. Biographies and reminiscences, technical works, will give you often an intimate detail, a telling touch, a revealing hint, that you might never have got from a living model. People are hard to know. It is a slow business to induce them to tell you the particular thing about themselves that can be of use to you. They have the disadvantage that often you cannot look at them and put them aside, as you can a book, and you have to read the whole volume, as it were, only to learn that it had nothing much to tell you.

W. Somerset Maugham, The Summin Up. London: Penguin Books, 1963, pp. 63-64.

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English Department Activities

Translating Amazigh Popular Accounts (Project)

Dr. Redouan Saidi will supervise a group of students to lead a two-year project (2012-2014) that will consist in translating a number of Amazigh popular accounts with Tifinagh transcription into French, Spanish and English.

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RLCC Annual Conference Beni Mellal, 23-24 April 2013

The Research Laboratory on Culture and Communication (RLCC) at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Beni Mellal, will organize, in 23-24 April 2013, an International Conference on ‘The Concept of Identity.’

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Language, Culture and Society The Master Unit 'Studies in Literary and Cultural Encounters' (SLCE) at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Beni Mellal, organized on 07 June 2012, a Study Day for the benefit of students-researchers in Maser and Doctoral studies on the theme of "Language, Culture and Society."

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A Workshop on ‘CITAVI’ software Mr. Mohamed JAAFARI conducted, on 05 November 2012, a training session on: the basics of 'CITAVI' software. The workshop was given to the students-researchers of the Master Unit ‘Studies in Literary and Cultural Encounters’ (SLCE) as a part of 'Research Methodology' Course.

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“Astronomy” Talk

A talk on “Astronomy” was given in English by Fritz Gerd Koring, director of Sahara Sky observatory (Tinfou, Zagora), on Tuesday 20 November 2012 at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences in Beni Mellal. The event was organized by the Club of Amateur Astronomy of the FLSH, Beni Mellal (AstroBM).

http://www.saharasky.com/saharasky/

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Pungent Quotations In this column, we present a selection of quotations by prominent figures of art, literature, politics, history, philosophy, science, etc.

Thus Spoke … Robert Frost

Tough often considered the quintessential poet of New England and America, Robert Frost was raised in California and first published in England. His poems, written mostly in plain speech using a traditional meter, frequently compare the outer, natural world to the inner world of the psyche.

“People are inexterminable – like flies and bed-bugs. There always will be some that survive in cracks and crevices – that’s us.”

Observer, 29 Mar. 1959. “I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.” Quoted in the New York Times, 7 Nov. 1955.

“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.” Quoted in Vogue, 15 Mar. 1963.

“The best way out is always through.” A Servant to Servants.

“I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.” Precaution.

“I would have written of me on my stone ‘I had a lover’s quarrel with the world’.” Epitaph.

“No wonder poets have sometimes to seem So much more business-like than businessmen. Their wares are harder to get.” New Hampshire.

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles before I go to sleep, And miles before I go to sleep.”

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. References: Cohen, J. M. and M. J. Cohen. The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations.

Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1980. Cohen, J. M. and M. J. Cohen. The Penguin Dictionary of Quotations.

Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1983. Negri, Paul, ed. 101 Great American Poems. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications,

1998. Selected by Khalid Chaouch.

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Proverbs of the Moment

ACTION and DEEDS

Actions speak loader than words.

‘Tis action makes the hero.

Our own actions are our security, not others’ judgements.

Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves.

One good deed atones for a thousand bad ones [Chinese proverb.]

The shortest answer is doing.

The greatest talkers are the least doers.

Never be weary of well doing.

Evil deeds are like perfume, difficult to hide.

An ill deed cannot bring honour.

Better suffer ill than do ill.

From word to deed is a great space.

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My Enigmatic Pen Circles, N° 31

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Find the appropriate words to fill the vertical square diagrams (1–11) so that you can find out the letters

needed to fill the horizontal line made up of 11 circles. The resulting words are the name of a famous American

contemporary linguist.

1- Opposite of ‘MAJOR’ 2- Area where fighting

takes place (in a war) 3- Flying vehicle with

wings 4- Someone from the

capital of Italy 5- Full of rocks 6- Person who shows

people where to sit

7- Thin layer of ice on the ground

8- Shy and not self-confident

9- Stick something to something else

10- Person who likes making jokes

11- Kingly.

Clues to My Enigmatic Pen Circles, N° 30

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 B C A B M S A S M A B N R E F R O O B T A S L E

K T E O T K O A E E O E E S R K H S R M R N D R

A N O HCN E K H O T V

N O M A OHC M S K Y

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20 Clues, n° 31 . Looking for Clues among Football and Golf Terms!

The 20 clues below are hidden in the terms at the end of each line. To find them, cross off some of the letters in each term (from left to right.) Example: - Social rank … CATASTROPHE (The clue is ‘CASTE’. It is obtained by crossing off the letters ‘TA’ and ‘ROPH’ in ‘CATASTROPHE’) 1. Drop down from a higher level ………………. FOOTBALL 2. One of the curved bones in the chest …………… DRIBBLE 3. Any plant that is grown for its grain ….………….. CORNER 4. Leave a place ……………………………………… GOAL 5. Empty space between two things…………… GOALKEEPER 6. Give money to someone for goods or services …. PENALTY 7. However ……..………..………………… OBSTRUCTION 8. Story ……………………………………………… TACKLE 9. To rest on or against something …...…………. LINESMAN 10. Deep loud sound made by a lion …………… CROSSBAR 11. Black powder produced when wood or coal is burnt … SHOOT 12. To depart ……………………...…………………… GOLF 13. To breathe one’s last ………………………………CADDIE 14. Move something into a particular position ………… PUTT 15. Garden tool used for breaking up the soil ………...… HOLE 16. Go head first into water ……………………...…… DRIVE 17. Young lion, bear, fox, etc. .………………………… CLUBS 18. To possess .……………………………… HEADCOVER 19. Painting, drawing, engraving, etc. …..…………… CARTS 20. Piece of cloth put on the floor as decoration …… ROUGH 20 Clues to n° 30: 1. but 2. bad 3. pen 4. rites 5. rector 6. bard 7. ex- 8. can 9. stop 10. rice 11. CAIR 12. mute 13. ads 14. I'd 15. base 16. ape 17. step 18. ebook 19. see 20. MP.

Clues to ‘CROSSWORDS’ N° 30

A B C D E F G H I J K 1 S H I S T O R I A N 2 E A F R I C A N S 3 E B B I T N T O 4 L E T A K R R 5 M O R O C C O B E D 6 I N D E B T E D M E 7 D A S I O D O R 8 L E S S V O C T 9 A S H P A L M E T 10 R E X I T D E 11 K A R A T E M O O N

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CROSSWORDS (N° 31)

1- Person supposedly endowed with the ability to remove evils from a person or a place – American news channel. 2- To officially pass a law or bill so that it becomes legal – When closed, it is covered by an eyelid. 3- Plants that you collect in harvest time – French monosyllabic answer. 4- European city supposedly built by Romulus – Street – Informal word for ‘a very young child.’ 5- Find it in ‘AXE’ –Large snake that kills its victims by squeezing them to death – Radio wavelength. 6- Extremely small – Great Californian city. 7- The protecting covering on top of a building – A sudden military attack. 8- Outer part of the body between the leg and the waist – Preposition indicating movement – Not drunk. 9- ‘All right!’ – Laboratory. 10- Humble, modest – Load of something. 11- The system according to which the money, industry and trade of a country are organized. 12- A cleaning and washing substance – Earth.

A- Find it in “ACRE” – Rhythmic endings of verses (pl.) B- Copying machine – Find it in “LOIN” C- The use of words which sound like the sound they are describing. D- The crime of forcing a woman to a sexual relation – Used in conditional clauses – Double consonants. E- Double consonants. F- Singular pronoun – A Romanticist wandering poet – A coast Guard G- An adverb of consequence – Lots of laughter. H- To tease – A monosyllabic answer. I- Trouble – A gang or a large crowd. J- Parts of a dollar (pl.) – To make someone responsible for something bad. K- Biggest city in New York State – A night bird with large face and flat eyes – Not difficult. L- Home of a bird – Spheres (pl.)

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