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Hi, Rusty!
Sorry........
I was about to reply when a friend popped in!
I am glad to see that you and Ros between you have sorted out "akimbo"!
I have been checking the word out in Chambers and Brewers, but came up with nothing explanatory.
It is a lovely word.......I can just picture someone standing there with hands on hips and elbows sticking out!
I have two clues outstanding in the 15 x 15 that I just cannot grasp.......
22a: ?I?A?N
27a: S?N?S?E?T
I think that "escheat" in 6d means property reverting to the State when someone dies without heirs?
I haven't checked this out so could be wrong.
Is your son coming a-visiting?

Hello, Elle,
My attempt at 22a, is N for note, one central line, is "i Axis",
reversed, giving "sixain" which I presume may have to do with poetry, but I have not investigated it.
27, Going down can be a "descent",
Remove "d" for daughter, giving "escent", now add nurse, "SEN", (state enrolled nurse?) and you have "senescent" for aging.
I had an idea that escheat was a legal term but had no idea what it meant.
Yes, my son will be here soon.

Hi, Rusty!
Ah, thank you.
I would never have got either of those clues had I tried until the cows came home!
I have googled "sixain"........apparently it is a six -line stanza.
"Senescent" is also a new word to me.
My vocabulary is ever increasing!
I hope you have good chat with your son.....
Talk later after he has gone home.......

Hello, Elle!
Ah! Now you'll have to let on to me what is a stanza!
Sounds like a poem.
I thought you would perchance know senescent, though.
I probably came across it before in a puzzle, for it forms no part of my vocabulary!
I'd best go and get out the best biscuits etc for my son visiting!

Hi rusty

A stanza is a part of a poem, like a verse. They are usually separated by a blank line from the next stanza. Each may have the same rhythm and rhyming pattern, but they don't have to
I think usually it is more or less synonymous with "verse".
It's a lovely word too.

Hi, Rusty!
It may well be that your son is still with you?
I hope you have had a good evening together.
(I hope your son enjoyed the biscuits!)
Yes, a stanza is one of the parts into which a poem is divided.......a group of (usually four) lines of verse, forming a definite / regular pattern.
I like some forms of poetry, but preferably poetry which doesn't "rhyme".....
I picked up a copy of "The Golden Treasury" at a Boot fair, which I like to dip into occasionally.
I was lucky.........it is in beautiful condition.
Yes, you are right ...I need to head for a bookshop to buy BB's dictionary.......but I think my granddaughter wants clothes......
However could I get so behind with the dates?

Hello Elle, Rusty and Rosalind!

Isn't it strange how we all vary - which is just as well !

To me, a poem that does not rhyme IS NOT a poem - it is just
prose, a rhythmic prose perhaps, but prose nonetheless!
I imagine you are going to hit the roof on reading this! But
I can't help it - sorry!

Hello, Rosalind,
Thank you for the info.
I am not keen on poetry, really.
But we are all different!


Hello, Pigale!
I agree with you.
Poetry has to rhyme or how would we know it was a poem!

Hello, Elle!
Had a very nice visit with my son and we finished the biscuits!
We had the golf showing in the background.
It was from Hawaii. Fine weather there!
"The Golden Treasury"? What is that?
Still quite mild up here!

Thank you Rusty!

Mild here too - much too mild in fact, and so humid. We had
none of Britain/Scotland cold weather, and it is not Winter
should be. We might pay for it in the Spring!

Hi, Rusty!
Blank verse, free verse.......it all gets so complicated.......
I think individuals should make their own choices...... and what appeals to one may well not appeal to another.
So be it!
How boring life would be if we all held the same views?
Did you get the chance to watch any tennis, besides watching golf?
It is raining here... the dog has just been out in the garden , and come back very poggy!
We are to have fog again in the morning!
Ugh!