Cryptogram Poem Solution: July 19, 2010: Third Stanza

Solve the cryptograms below to find the clues for fifteen words.  Solve each clue to find fifteen specific words.  Place the fifteen words in the proper spaces below to create the third stanza of a poem.  Check out the Ultimate Solutions Page for the solution when you think you have it.

CLUES…

#01  A word that describes wonderfulness with mostly the same but fewer letters. (wondrous)

#02  If you are diurnal, then you are considered this type of person.  (day)

#03  Daylight, dreams, and many desires are always doing this — a form of waning.  (fading)

#04  Food, women, and cars can get this designation.  (fast)

#05  If you are nocturnal, then you are considered this type of person.  (night)

#06  The barometer, your hopes, and the value of investments are always doing this.  (falling)

#07  Places, times, and knocks can be this.  (hard)

#08  You can give it to someone else, or you can surf it.  (wave)

#09  What you can become if you get caught in a pouring rain without protection.  (drenched)

#10  You can climb these or you can describe a successful party using the same word. (rocks)

#11  Something used with jars to preserve jam.  Also circus performers. (seals)

#12  What you did the last time you used the phone.  What happened at a game when it got rained out.  (called)

#13  It’s the opposite of “back” and Sally often does it.  (forth)

#14  It’s sometimes referred to as the jade of the sea and listed with semi-precious stones even though it is neither.  (coral)

#15  A Celtic poet often mistreated in modern role-playing games.  (bard)

Original Letters = “AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz”
Solution Letters = “YyZzSsTtOoPpKkLlGgHhCcDdAaBbEeFfIiJjMmNnQqRrUuVvWwXx”

The wondrous day was fading fast
And night was falling hard.
When from the wave-drenched rocks the seals
Called forth the Coral Bard!

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