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[Caterpillar]

[JimmyImpossible]

For later, once we finish getting all the letters, I assume we need to follow the clues in the poem to remove some letters or words and rearrange what's left. The "God thrice great" is Hermes, Thoth if we're going Egyptian.

[addlepated]

Actually, I pegged "God thrice great" as God - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

[JimmyImpossible]

True, could be. I had googled it and came up with more than a few sites that call Hermes the "thrice great god" though. Guess we'll have to see what the final batch of letters are and what makes sense.

Here's some of the sites:

http://www.dnafoundation.com/members/akh/8artic/8tri.htm

and

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Ithaca/4396/thrice.htm

[Caterpillar]

Just speccing again....and I know this screws up "TEA", but for #1 Across - WATERSHED?

[JimmyImpossible]

WTG Caterpillar! That sounds exactly right.

[Caterpillar]

"WHISPER" (Boy George) fits #1 Down and also fits with the suggestion of #11 Across ENMITY (although I have no idea how they match the clues provided, so Lord only knows.....)

The only tenuous connection I can make with ENMITY is that the word "Father" in the clue is presented as a proper noun....as in Priest, and ENMITY sorta sounds like AMITY....as in AMITYVILLE....lol (following me...nah me neither)

Does it look to anyone else like there is a space between the F and the ather.....signif.? Who knows.

[JimmyImpossible]

Not sure about whisper, but "enmity" seems to fit. Enmity = hate, a father could be father "time", which is backwards (back alley) fraternizing with NY (new york).

[Caterpillar]

[JimmyImpossible]

So, if this is right, do we even need to get the NBA clue? If what we have is correct, then we have all the crossing letters, we also have all the first letters. I don't know what to do with this yet, but for ease of reference here they all are:

Crossing letters:

w t r e j k i s b a n i e m t a n e c n r u s a s o p p o e l i i g c w m i o s

First letters:

w h i e f a i w c c a p s e w t r e j k n i l e n w s p l

Have at thee!!!

[Slyfox]

We have "Let fly the head of the God-Thrice-Great".

If the Hermes/Thoth conection is right then we may need to discard the letters IBIS as Hermes/Thoth has the head of bird and in particular an IBIS.

As for the castle gate all I can think of is portcullis but we don't have enough 'L's if I count correctly

[MageSteff]

[JimmyImpossible]

"you must bear your crosses without debate"

So maybe we also need to take out ARGUMENT, or some other word that means "debate"?

[JimmyImpossible]