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Crossword 310: Double Plays (on Words)

Lord Frederic Leighton, Spirit of the Summit
Lord Frederic Leighton, Spirit of the Summit

That’s right—not baseball, but paronomasia.  This is another of a series of puzzles on this website that encourage you to move from the physical to the mental, from the material to the spiritual; that offers you a way to transcend the vile, dust-choked, filth-smeared circumstances of earthly existence and approach the empyrean realm where the soul communes with eternity.


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310 Double Plays (On Words)