Short Man Of The Cloth Cut A Few Sharp Lines Crossword Clue

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	noun • a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person
	37%	8		English used in a few lines and a few more for comparison
	adjective • being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting noun • something having the property of being analogous to something else • an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator • (mathematics) one of a set of parallel geometric figures (parallel lines or planes) adjective satellite • of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations verb • be parallel to • make or place parallel to something • duplicate or match
	32%	13		It has a short lifespan of a few weeks to a few months
	noun • type genus of the Doliolidae

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	Clue	Source
1	A few cut? Everyone's cut! The Guardian Quiptic - 27 Aug 2012	The Guardian Quiptic / 27 Aug 2012
2	Cloth for a man of the cloth? New York Times - 06 Jul 2014	New York Times / 06 Jul 2014
3	English used in a few lines and a few more for comparison The Guardian Cryptic - 06 Jun 2018	The Guardian Cryptic / 06 Jun 2018
4	It has a short lifespan of a few weeks to a few months
5	Message communicated as "short-short-short, long-long-long, short-short-short" New York Times - 03 Apr 2024	New York Times / 03 Apr 2024
6	They have a relatively short lifespan: typically a few weeks to a few months
7	Too few people subordinated to short, common man The Guardian Quiptic - 20 Dec 2004	The Guardian Quiptic / 20 Dec 2004

Type of light-verse quatrain
Form of light verse
E.C.Bentley's verse form
This from Mr Bentley, Biographises intently, As you'd expect from a journo, Unlike some imitators I know
Perhaps Cherie starts to write lampoons and satirical verse
Form of comic verse delivered by clergyman snubbed by ambassador and wife
Verse 150 where I improvised
Parson detailed to hack Bentley's jingle

Verse minister cut and cut again
"George the Third/ Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder/ At so grotesque a blunder.", for example
Edmund C Bentley, for instance mocked gently; Vivaldi, when cut, cut again
Comic biographical poem
Humorous bio priest cut and cut
Whimsical biographical poem
WI lecher (anag.) – short poem about a famous person

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