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How to play
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Answer a clue and its letters appear in the sentence, wherever
they belong.
Or type a word you can read out of the sentence — it fills in
where it stands, and completes the answers those letters belong to.
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Lyric
Traditional
Bobby Shafto · English folk song · 18th century
Bobby Shafto was a real man. The song was sung for Robert Shafto, a young candidate in a 1761 election in County Durham whose good looks were his main selling point. Local tradition says a young woman, Bridget Belasyse, died of a broken heart when he married someone else.
Clues
Two ways in. Type an answer from the list above and its letters appear in the
sentence. Or type a word you can guess from the sentence itself — it fills in where
it stands, and completes the answers those letters belong to. Every letter of the sentence
belongs to exactly one answer, and the small number on a tile is its position in the
sentence. Hover a clue to see which tiles it owns.