I'm thinking of a word that rhymes with "abstain"

Now that Lent is over...

Have never played this before.....have been studying past posts.....so forgive me if the going is rough at first!

I'll be seeing my dermatologist for this acne.

They told us in music class not to call
a __ __ __ __ __ __ __
a "chorus"; we had to, as the clue says, abstain,
From such terminology and use correct
Musicological terms, though I suspect,
Some of us reverted to saying "chorus".
Remember itʻs complicated, before you deplore us,
ʻCause __ __ __ __ __ __ __ can also mean
not only "abstain" but be clean
Through with doing --whatever it is thatʻs being
Talked about. Is this a point everyoneʻs seeing?

Roland, I'll refrain from deploring you.

Tess, welcome! I assume your hint is for a word that rhymes with "abstain," but I'm afraid I'm not coming up with it yet. Give me another hint if you can, or just give me a bit more time and I'll see what I can come up with.

Not refrain,

This digitally-shaped, yellow fruit must be cooked before you eat it, unlike its little-cutey cousin.

Which is why I eat bananas much more often.

Not refrain, plantain,

I support, though modestly, your thread with a word.

According to Katherine Hepburn, one should never do either of these two things.

My Fair Lady?

//3 words, 4 guesses. Stolen verbatim from Collectorator!//

I'll be seeing my dermatologist for this acne.
I'm ever so much tougher than peroxide or oral antiobiotics. Looks are everything, aren't they?

working backwards, since tess was really here first...

#10 does that mean you're going all the way to accutane? Even if not, don't let my failure to guess your word keep you from offering another if you like.
#9 I had a friend at PC, a Mainiac named Splaine, who insisted that the precipitation in his home state never missed him.
#8 Kate was quite the source of quotes, wasn't she?
#7 I feel really dim today. Nothing is springing to mind. Are you helping me maintain it?

Not refrain, plantain, maintain, explain, complain, rain, Spain, Maine, main, plain, accutane,

Non-maritime, non-adventure
was Cooperʻs __ __ __ __ __ -Bearer
Neither was it a thriller, suspense or scarer

I never had that one shoved down my throat, although I fear that was my experience of most of James F's works. I probably read them too young--should have waited till several years after I die.

Not refrain, plantain, maintain, explain, complain, rain, Spain, Maine, main, plain, accutane, chain,

Quelque chose autre que le Français est un imposter!

Oy vey!

Is #14 a statement about champagne?

Jim, I feel your pain.

Not refrain, plantain, maintain, explain, complain, rain, Spain, Maine, main, plain, accutane, chain, champagne, pain,

Sam will not eat eggs that are green, nor any type of pork. They are below him.

Well, this a certainly an inflammation I'll never have to deal with - not living in Brazil where the temperature never, ever goes below 24C (75F).

Glad I'm not on Fantasy Island to hear Tattoo's annoying voice!

__ __ __ n, (homonym: __ __ n __)

Kind of useless, if it has "in" in front
Of it, but useful if it bears the brunt
OF wind and weather atop a build-
ing, and as proper name, (not to guild
The lily), he was a writer, friend of John
Milton. Right-- or as Australians say, itʻs "not on!"?

#17 all I'm coming up with is abstain, which is the word we're rhyming.
#18 I hope none of us ever get chilblains!
#19 Back in the day, we would ask people what kind of M&Ms Tattoo liked.
#20 "Guilding the lily" is entertaining, perhaps worthy of Warren Beatty, the rumored addressee of Carly's song.

Not refrain, plantain, maintain, explain, complain, rain, Spain, Maine, main, plain, accutane, chain, champagne, pain, chilblain, plane, vain, vane

Hint: Crambo's word is a common noun, but it is sometimes capitalized in a couple of contexts, including in the winter in these parts.

Famous names such as Katrina, Arlene, and Tom ring a bell?

J53, I,er... DISapprove Definitely, Although I Now...will give a capital hint, even though it's a not word.

Some people refer to this all too common fine white powder as snow.

#22 all too well. And you've got it--Crambo's word was hurricane. Well done! You get to host the next ine.

Ah, I see AG. nope, not disdain, nor cocaine.

I don't know how to do the link thing...so I just started a new one. Find me, please! And...as this is the first time I've posted, please be gentle!

We're over here!

Not really, I made a mistake and needed to start over! I still don't know how to link...I've spent over 30 minutes trying to find out searching the site. But I did start a new crambo here http://www.librarything.com/topic/135865

Oh, darn; I didn't get to submit a guess in this round because I spent too long debating whether "iocane" is a real word or not.

Really, we're here! http://www.librarything.com/topic/135865