ISLES OF THE BRITISH ISLES
PARTNERS IN RHYME
MAMMALS
COMMUNICATIONS
SONGS OF INNOCENCE & EXPERIENCE
3 LETTERS, E IN THE MIDDLE
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Mainland is the name of the largest of these islands 130 miles off the coast of Scotland & famous for their wee equines
Shetland
400
Countee Cullen & Claude McKay were influential poets in this "Renaissance"
(the) Harlem (Renaissance)
400
This largest mammal tips the scales at 150 tons
Blue Whale
400
The 1906 International Radiotelegraph Conference replaced the signal CQD, for "all stations, distress", with this
SOS
400
"Hey Joe" & "The Wind Cries Mary" are on this guitarist's 1967 debut album "Are You Experienced"
Jimi Hendrix
400
To request alms of a stranger
Beg
800
Lundy, an island in the Bristol Channel between England & this U.K. country, is a breeding ground for seabirds like puffins & razorbills
Wales
800
Seen here is this 2021 inaugural poet partnering with the Boston Pops
(Amanda) Gorman
800
Looking "like a small watermelon on little, tiny legs", a baby pygmy one of these made its debut at a Sydney Zoo in 2021
Hippo
800
"Telstar", a 1962 instrumental hit, was named for a pioneering communications one of these
Satellite
800
Andrew Bird called a song "Near" this "Experience Experience"
Death
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800
A floral necklace
Lei
1200
In 1897 this guy experimented & sent a radio transmission from the Isle of Wight off the south coast of England
Marconi
1200
**DAILY DOUBLE**
Aiding Coleridge in creating this poem, Wordsworth wrote he "suggested the navigation of the ship by the dead men"
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1200
**DAILY DOUBLE**
The state marine mammal of Florida is a subspecies of the West Indian this
Manatee
1200
The oldest known recipes, including one for pigeon stew, are found on Babylonian clay tablets in this writing system
Cuneiform
1200
Perhaps her "Summertime Sadness" was caused by the "Innocence Lost" she sang of on her 2012 "Paradise" EP
Lana Del Rey
1200
It means cool; a 1990s & 2000s hip-hop music label was "So So" this
Def
1600
This isle in the Irish Sea is not part of the U.K. but has been a personal possession of the British monarch since 1828
The Isle of Man
1600
Ezra Pound helped publish this T.S. Eliot poem that rhymes, "In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo"
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
1600
Here are these burrowing mammals of Africa on high alert, watching for predators
Meerkats
1600
Still important in the developing world, this long-distance radio format uses frequencies between AM & FM
Short wave
1600
In a 1983 song & album, this piano man was "An Innocent Man"
Billy Joel
1600
To cut something down with a broadsword, or build something up with tough effort
Hew
2000
Tresco & Bryher are 2 of the Scilly Isles about 30 miles off this county at the southwestern tip of Britain
Cornwall
2000
In 1997, this British poet laureate collaborated with Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney on editing a poetry anthology
Ted Hughes
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2000
Sadly, one of these colorful carnivores that famously made its way into Calif. from Oregon died in 2021 after it was struck by a vehicle
A grey wolf
2000
Towers & hilltop stations with pivoting arms were used to send messages in this system, from Greek for "sign bearing"
Semaphore
2000
"I hold just one breath here within my chest / Just like innocence", these grunge rockers sang on their 1996 No. 1 album "No Code"
Pearl Jam
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2000
It's used in photography & filmmaking to adjust color
Gel
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