I'm thinking of a word to rhyme with park.

While I was leaving the dog park I thought it might be good to rhyme while I was walking.

Dave Brubeck wrote a tune about this odd bird.

I have occasionally seen a meadowlark, but very rarely. Most of my back yard birds are plain ol' brown, until the red wing blackbirds come for the winter.

Not: meadowlark

Is it what your dog said to the 'skin' of the tree?

Roll out the barrell
And celebrate if its
Found in a poem by Carroll:
__ __ __ __, well "hunted", fits

4- My dogs don't bark at the bark. They don't even gnaw on it (unlike the women natives in State of Wonder who gnaw at bark to give them life long fertility - as if any sane person would want that.)
5- Oh dear, I'm going to go with mark, though Crambo doesn't.

Not: bark, meadowlark, mark

When I was much younger, I was in a play. I only had a small part*. An artillery piece would sound in the distance, via sound effect, and I had to cup a hand to my ear and say, "____, I hear the cannon".

I rehearsed with the cast, "____, I hear the cannon", and also at home, "____, I hear the cannon". I'd practice my one line, "____, I hear the cannon" on the way to work, at work, "____, I hear the cannon".

I practiced for weeks. "____, I hear the cannon" here, "____, I hear the cannon" there. I had it down pat! I was good!

Opening night came, the play unfolded. I took my place on stage in the third act. The sound effect went off, but it was way louder than it had ever been at rehearsals. BANG! Ever the trouper, I delivered my one and only line ever performed on stage... "What the fuck was that?!?!"

*Be nice!

A proto-Norse alphabet?

"I delivered. . .(the) line...'What the fuck was that!?!" (7)

If you had only had one of the "Greats" doing the direction, she/he would have said "Terrific! Leave it that way on all future productions of the play! It shows that
you were really into the reality, and not just reading
off lines from a script!"
(John Cassavetes did the equivalent, for a movie where the actor sees a woman
attempting suicide, and he shouts, "LYNN! Stop!" --
perfect rendition of his line, except that "Lynn" was
the actress's name, not the
character's.)

My closest living relative is the elephant shrew (not a comment on my sister!).

Rhymes with "dark" if Brit-
-ishly pronounced, but with us it
Rhymes with "work" and what I'm using
Here is not a U. S. diction of __ __ A __ __*
And I might add, lest you shirk
Researching its older meaning, it meant
What we now call "cleric": Get my intent?

* aka: __ __ E __ ___

#7: Jim, as another possessor of a small "part," I can empathize.

I am so lost I may never find my way back to Crambo.

7> Hark, I hear the sound of your teacher having a heart attack.
8> I guarantee you Crambo is not nor will it ever be futhark
9> Is this a guess?
10> No aardvarks were harmed in the process of this game
11> No idea what so ever
12> Is this a guess?

Not: aardvark, bark, futhark, hark, meadowlark, mark

# 11 rhymes with " "ark"
Or ( Britishly pronounced) with "mark".
In the U.S. you rhyme it with "work"
which is something she/he better not shirk;
But takes orders, whichever may be so,
From an office manager and is low
On the corporate totem pole, --Y' know
It should be obvious whom I mean :
Eliot's play can still be seen:
about the "Confidential __ __ __ __ __" So bring
Out your copy of that old thing.

Joyce, to help with #14, you might remember a giraffe who wanted something named after this person. Or I might just be showing my age and making you more confused.

New guess from me:

My relatives and I come in six "flavors": up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and top.

>11 rolandperkins: & 14 I'm always amazed to hear Brits saying clark instead of clerk. Those pesky Brits, they do it just to get our attention. //Thanks for the giraffe clue, Jim, but I have no idea to what you refer.//
>15 Jim53: You're saying your relatives are quirky? Join the club

Not: aardvark, bark, clerk, futhark, hark, meadowlark, mark, quark

"And that's why you never see a unicorn, to this very day."?

#12: Not a guess.
My apologies for leaving you in the ____, Joyce.

//Re: the giraffe, I've been looking but haven't found it on youtube; thirty or forty years ago there was a commercial in which a deep-voiced giraffe said, "I want a Clark bar."//

. . . " 'I want a Clark bar' "
I was intending to use "Clark" (as in "Clark Bar") for # 11, and not the cryptic "clerk" (pronounced "clark"), but two things held me back,
1. Crambo's traditional aversion to proper names. and
2. I might be the oldest one here, and hence the only one
who had even heard of Clark bars. (I don't however, remember the giraffe ad). (19)

17> OK, they missed the ark, but with those wings, we should be able to see them flying around, shouldn't we?
18> Roland, I'm so often in the dark, I should start carrying a flashlight.

Not: aardvark, ark, bark, clerk, dark, futhark, hark, meadowlark, mark, quark

The place where the Durham Bulls play is considered a site worth visiting in these parts (two guesses)

It doesn't matter if it's an E320, a Pagoda, or an SLS AMG, does it?

This ten-letter noun, quite censorious,
Fits Marcion, Waldo, Nestorius.
Each served as a proxy
For heterodoxy,
With consequence far from uproarious.

>22 Jim53: neither Durham Bulls Athletic Park nor any other park is Crambo
nor is it a landmark
>23 justjim: No, I don't think it matters how you trademark your Mercedes, it's still many rungs above my Toyota Camry
>24 buckjohnson: Oh dear, heretic doesn't quite rhyme does it? I'm stumped.

Not: aardvark, ark, athletic park, bark, clerk, dark, futhark, hark, landmark, meadowlark, mark, quark, trademark

He probably doesn't wear a Sher-
-lock Holmes style hat,or confront a blur
With magnifying glass, but a "__ __ __ __"
Is a detective, sure as a shark
Is a fish (a whale by the way
Isn't, pace HErman Melville).
At any rate, hell, he will
Try to detect drugs, so if this warn-
-ing applies to you, beware of all
Who might properly __ __ __ __ be called.

//>23 justjim: wasn't trademark!//

Not A Guess>
Just trying to get something current back on the menu.
My screen has reverted to menu of the 2009-2011 era.
Is it the same for everybody? I (unaltruistically) hope so!)--I've seen this happen before, usually gets back to the current stuff fairly soon

>26 rolandperkins: & 28 I guess I never thought of a narc as a detective, but yeah, I guess so.
Roland, I think what happened is that at the top of the topics page you've clicked on unread/messages instead of last message. Click on last message, and all should be back to normal.
>27 justjim: Shoot. I'll have to think about it. Is it marque? Because Crambo isn't.

Not: aardvark, ark, athletic park, bark, clerk, dark, futhark, hark, landmark, meadowlark, mark, marque, narc, quark, trademark

". . .at the top of the topics page you clicked on UNREAD MESSAGES instead of "last message". . . (28, 29)

Thanks, Citizen Joyce; So, I guess it was only me. I don't remember ever having intended to click on "last messages",
still less on "unread messages" but I might have done that inadvdertently.

#5 b t w, was not "mark",
but I did make it a 4-letter word, when it should be 5.

The literary work referred to
is "The Hunting of the __ __ __ __ __" by Lewis Carroll.

#24 has a Greek ending meaning "ruler" because it specifies the leader of a heretical movement, rather than a lone schmismatic or a follower of someone else's heretical movement.

My sister's decorating style is so plain and cold and drab.

I can't help but guess but I don't think I want to win again--this game is hard! :)

My sister has one of these skin irregularities--she's had it her whole life--but it's pretty light and hardly noticeable.

>5 rolandperkins: & 31 Crambo is neither snark nor snarky
>24 buckjohnson: & 32 I assure you, Buck, not only is Crambo not heresiarch, but I don't even know such words
> 33 ha - I can't help but guess but I don't think I want to win again--this game is hard! You have it exactly. No, you didn't win with stark, but you sure got my feelings about the game (see heresiarch above)
>34 Jim53: my daughter has a pale beige birthmark on her heel that I used to try to wash off when she was a baby. It's still there. All that soap and water did nothing.

Not: aardvark, ark, athletic park, bark, birthmark, clerk, dark, futhark, hark, heresiarch, landmark, meadowlark, mark, marque, narc, quark, snark, stark, trademark

//>29 Citizenjoyce: as edited. Yes, 'marque' is on the mark.//

>36 justjim: Yea! This little brain rejoices when it gets something right. (I used to think I had a big brain. Nothing like LT to take you down a peg.)

On "Heresiarch" (Word #10 currently of the "NOTS")

A literary connection: the word appears in the early pages of Joyce's Ulysses, where he casually mentions "the subtle heresiarch Sabellius" --whom I've never heard of before or since. I admit it comes in a passage which is probably one of the reasons why (as has been discusssed in L T threads) many readers can't get started on Ulysses. But it is a good example of Joyce's
facility in the use of language: Provided you are following him along, you get what the word means, even if you've
never heard or seen it before.

"Quark" (Word 16 of the "NOTS" also has a Joycean connection. Its derivation is said to be from a phrase in Finnegans Wake: "Three quarks for Master Mark. . .".
It was probably intended as an Irish pronunciation of "quirk", while "Mark" was probably derived from American slang meaning someone who is cheated or deceived, deception being a major theme of the whole book.

I knew there was a reason I haven't read Joyce. Those who do have minds that definitely work in a Crambo way.

My mother was a wonderful lady, the leader of the family really.

My father lead my family, and my great-grandfather lead a thousand men.
(2 guesses)

I just finished Carnival which was about a clash between a patriarchal and matriarchal society. I guess either society could also be lead by an omniarch.

Not: aardvark, ark, athletic park, bark, birthmark, clerk, dark, futhark, hark, heresiarch, landmark, matriarch, meadowlark, mark, marque, narc, omniarch, patriarch, quark, snark, stark, trademark

>41 louminus: That's nothing! My many times great grandfather led many fighting men, and they were on horses!

Getting ready to start a new chapter in life, looking forward to the journey.

>41 louminus:, 42 I don't know which answer was supposed to be for my second guess, but it's not in the list.

>43 justjim: I'd like to say centarch, but that pretty much has nothing to do with your guess
>41b Not myriarch in fact

Crambo does not end in arch

>44 IWantToBelieve: I'm happy you're embarking on a new journey, IWantToBelieve, but Crambo isn't.

Not: aardvark, ark, athletic park, bark, birthmark, centarch, clerk, dark, embark, futhark, hark, heresiarch, landmark, matriarch, meadowlark, mark, marque, myriarch, narc, omniarch, patriarch, quark, snark, stark, trademark

Messrs Mason and Dixon did this to the states.

__ __ __ __ __ Matsunaga*
(D, HI): rep., senator, a good hard-working Liberal, even " a 'flaming Liberal!' " (he once said, tongue-in-cheek, talking of his congressional reputation)-- but he didn't exactly "__ __ __ __ __" a
revolution. Something more revolutionary might be found in "A __ __ __ __ __ is struck: Jack Hall and the ILWU" by Sanford Zalburg

*Met subject;

>47 louminus: I believe they demarked which was north or south
>48 rolandperkins: Crambo doesn't spark

Not: aardvark, ark, athletic park, bark, birthmark, centarch, clerk, dark, demark, embark, futhark, hark, heresiarch, landmark, matriarch, meadowlark, mark, marque, myriarch, narc, omniarch, patriarch, quark, snark, spark, stark, trademark

Time to get off the boat!

__ __ __ __ does appear in the "NOTS", compound-
-ed with another noun: at around
16th place alphabetically. But
just plain
__ __ __ __ doesn't appear. Explain?

I ran part way around the round track.

Yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or rather, so sorry IWanttoBelieve, time to disembark from my Crambo and move on to yours.

>51 rolandperkins: So obviously Crambo is neither arch
>52 louminus: nor arc

Just for completeness, although it was ruled out by a later hint, #43 was a hipparch.

Thank you, Jim. I like that word.

51 wasnʻt -"-arch", but another element of a
compounded bird, --er I mean word --
released from its compound-mate.

Don't know, Roland.

I still say that the word that contains 51

is # 16 on the "NOTS" List (49).

You can spill the beans now, Roland. The game is over. IWantToBelieve has won it.

The 51, 57 "Beans":

just plain LARK
(cf. MEADOWLARK on the
NOTS List.)

Well done, IWantToBelieve

Oh no...LOL :)
Game on!