Acrostic No. 82

Sunday, 1 November 2026

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Acrostic No. 82

A hidden sentence, revealed by the answers to its clues. The clock starts when you press start — not before.

How to play
  1. The board is a hidden sentence, one square per letter.
  2. Answer a clue and its letters appear in the sentence, wherever they belong.
  3. 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.
  4. Every letter belongs to exactly one answer, and nothing is marked wrong: a word that is not in the puzzle simply does not take.
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Lyric
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Pop Goes the Weasel · the American verse · 1850s

It started as a dance tune that swept London in the 1850s. The English words, about half a pound of tuppenny rice, are usually explained as slang: to pop is to pawn, and weasel and stoat is rhyming slang for a coat. The monkey and the mulberry bush are the American verse, which skips a line here: the monkey thought 'twas all in fun.

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.

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