I'm thinking of a word that rhymes with 'codex'.

A nice book-related clue word. Is Crambo's word book-related? Maybe, maybe not!

Oops.
Not: codex

Double-sided printing, or a style of apartment?
A response to a stimulus, or a Steven Gould novel?
A diacritic?

No, no and I don't think so.

Not: codex, duplex, reflex, circumflex (ˆ)

Could an unspecified member of the protagonist family in The Grapes of Wrath be called
__ __ __ __ "__"?

__ __ __atious as travel may be, the VERB __ __ __
comes from Latin, but NOT from the the Latin "Vectus" (traveling, carried, riding).

Has been replaced by fax and email

Lewis Carroll personally created the one for Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, containing entries such as "Spherical, the advantage of being" and "Horizontal weather, boots for."

>4 rolandperkins: Joad'X'? Sounds like a relative of Superman! Oakie'X'? That doesn't even fit. Still thinking.
>5 rolandperkins: It must vex you when we get our Latin roots wrong, Professor P.
>6 Tess_W: Ah, telex. No, but I still have some punched paper tapes around somewhere that make ASCII art when run through a telex machine. If I could ever find one.
>7 buckjohnson: Not an index, even one from The Reverend Dodgson.

Not: codex, duplex, reflex, circumflex (ˆ), vex, telex, index

Mirror, mirror on the wall...

Pius, John Paul, Innocent and others were among those who shared this biggest title.

You might see one of these each time you flush.

On 4, 8

Youʻre right that "Joad ʻXʻ " was the guess.
I donʻt get how it "doesnʻt even fit". (It was pretty much just a joke entry). Did you mean it has to be ONE word, not a phrase? But it will probably one of the fthat rhymes BOTh syllables.

Good morning, Crambologists. Are we all sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin.

>9 Jenni_Canuck: Me, me! I'm the fairest of them all. Also, I don't have that good a mirror.
>10 jpyvr: Pontifex Maximus, didn't Russell Crowe play... No, wait.
>11 Jim53: I admit that I only got this after pushing some schoolboy thoughts aside.
>12 rolandperkins: "Doesn't fit" referred to "Oakie" and the number of spaces you left. And you're right, we're only going to rhyme the last syllable again.

Not: codex, duplex, reflex, circumflex (ˆ), vex, telex, index, Joad 'X', reflects, pontifex, vortex

Selected literary passages from one or more works?

I've read that! Confucius say "A bird in hand makes hard to blow nose."

Not: codex, duplex, reflex, circumflex (ˆ), vex, telex, index, reflects, pontifex, vortex, analects

#13 > Of course you are the fairest but my word in #9 was more about form than function.

Hmmm. Is your mirror convex? That wouldn't make you look very fair at all.

Not: codex, duplex, reflex, circumflex (ˆ), vex, telex, index, reflects, pontifex, vortex, analects, convex

A goat with some very impressive horns?

That's a very "intrepid" guess. So 80s though. The latest Ubuntu release is Oneiric Ocelot!

Not: codex, duplex, reflex, circumflex (ˆ), vex, telex, index, reflects, pontifex, vortex, analects, convex, ibex

If you cry me a river, you can dry your tears with this packet of paper hankies.

Bzzz! Proper noun, trademark! I think it's one of those brand names in general use nowadays, like Biro, Coke etc.

Not: codex, duplex, reflex, circumflex (ˆ), vex, telex, index, reflects, pontifex, vortex, analects, convex, ibex, Kleenex

I might be standing here, waiting to enter to hear the Good Book expounded.

Two words, both of which can mean the highest point!

♪♫"Don't stand in the narthex, don't block up the hall..."♪♫ (Apologies to Bob Dylan)

Not: codex, duplex, reflex, circumflex (ˆ), vex, telex, index, reflects, pontifex, vortex, analects, convex, ibex, Kleenex, narthex

The very acme of words! No, wait. They can't both be.

Not: codex, duplex, reflex, circumflex (ˆ), vex, telex, index, reflects, pontifex, vortex, analects, convex, ibex, Kleenex, narthex, apex, vertex

Maybe a little online sport? know whatahmean, wink wink, nudge nudge, saynomore.

No sex please, I'm British.

Not: codex, duplex, reflex, circumflex (ˆ), vex, telex, index, reflects, pontifex, vortex, analects, convex, ibex, Kleenex, narthex, apex, vertex, sex

You missed the online part ;)

New guess:
Follius Flaccinator

er, internet sex?

Also, we've already had pontifex, was that your new guess, Jenn?

oops, nodding off here. No more guesses tonight. better quit before I do any more idiotic zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

;) Catch you on the other side then.

"Sitting comfortably" in #13 suggests this decorous word for an indecorous body part; it's from the same Latin root as the word "petard," whose etymology Jim cited in the first Crambo round I ever played.

The closest I can think of in sitting down related words are buttocks or cheeks, neither of which rhyme very well. Will keep thinking on this one.

I honour of the ghostly holographic reincarnation of Tupac, five suggestions in rap!

This word is not real
I'm starting to bewilder
I'm starting to hemorrhage
my outer layer.
I'll just go and park my butt on some hummock grass

As age gives way to gravity, perhaps Crambo's word could be accomodating, although not flattering.

Are they on the rocks?

Early in L T ;membership, I put on my Wish List a
book on how "the Simple" morphs
into "the __ __ __ __ __ __ __". (Havenʻt yet even
seen a copy, and I donʻt remember the exact title.)
(Amazed that __ __ __ __ __ __ __ hasnʻt yet shown up among the "Nots".)

Little chaps, six legs.

The people habitually suspected or arrested in response to a crime.

Flying visit - I'm flat out like a lizard drinking.

Not: codex, duplex, reflex, circumflex (ˆ), vex, telex, index, reflects, pontifex, vortex, analects, convex, ibex, Kleenex, narthex, apex, vertex, sex, perplex, apoplex, spinifex, simplex, insects, suspects

Still working on the rest as and when I can.

You could get a hundred of 'em for a ruble

10^{(10^{100})}

Rrrrrright! I'll just clean up those two. Not Kopeks or googleplex. Back after coffee.

Ok, Crrrambologists, I'm back on the case. Herrre's wherre I think I am at...

Not: codex, duplex, reflex, circumflex (ˆ), vex, telex, index, reflects, pontifex, vortex, analects, convex, ibex, Kleenex, narthex, apex, vertex, sex, perplex, apoplex, spinifex, simplex, insects, suspects, Kopeks, googleplex

Owing:
26?, 34d

Off to rrresearch!

... and 34a

#32 is an uncommon singular noun and is the only both-syllable rhyme I know for "codex" (though there are probably others).

New guess: The authors of R.U.R. and The Good Soldier Schweik use these diacritics in their surnames.

There are no upside down hats, carons or háčeks in Crrrambo's word.

Seriously struggling with the outstanding ones! Noted 34a.

Not: codex, duplex, reflex, circumflex (ˆ), vex, telex, index, reflects, pontifex, vortex, analects, convex, ibex, Kleenex, narthex, apex, vertex, sex, perplex, apoplex, spinifex, simplex, insects, suspects, Kopeks, googleplex, háčeks

Whee, I found anotherrr one! No butts about it.

Not: codex, duplex, reflex, circumflex (ˆ), vex, telex, index, reflects, pontifex, vortex, analects, convex, ibex, Kleenex, narthex, apex, vertex, sex, perplex, apoplex, spinifex, simplex, insects, suspects, Kopeks, googleplex, háčeks, podex

47: Could "Simplex" be a wrong guess
of the Guess in 37? Well, what I meant does end
in "-plex". Youʻre complicating this! But in this case, go ahead and COM plicate.

Sorrrry, Rrroland. My mistake.

Not: codex, duplex, reflex, circumflex (ˆ), vex, telex, index, reflects, pontifex, vortex, analects, convex, ibex, Kleenex, narthex, apex, vertex, sex, perplex, apoplex, spinifex, simplex, insects, suspects, Kopeks, googleplex, háčeks, podex, complex

#49 34a was also complex as in real v complex numbers

Of course! I always think of anything with i in it as an imaginary number.

>36 jbbarret: Some murex (shellfish famous for being used in production of Tyrian purple dye) live among rocks and corals. Is that your word?

Not: codex, duplex, reflex, circumflex (ˆ), vex, telex, index, reflects, pontifex, vortex, analects, convex, ibex, Kleenex, narthex, apex, vertex, sex, perplex, apoplex, spinifex, simplex, insects, suspects, Kopeks, googleplex, háčeks, podex, complex, murex

#35 is an anagram of expands (as in waistlines)

Rrrright! I suspect that I was rrrrepressing that.

Not: codex, duplex, reflex, circumflex (ˆ), vex, telex, index, reflects, pontifex, vortex, analects, convex, ibex, Kleenex, narthex, apex, vertex, sex, perplex, apoplex, spinifex, simplex, insects, suspects, Kopeks, googleplex, háčeks, podex, complex, murex, spandex

> 53 : No, #36 was not the gastropods, although some of those creatures might inhabit #36. The centenary of one of the most famous of #36 is being remembered this year.

Argh! What a dunderrrhead I am.

Not: codex, duplex, reflex, circumflex (ˆ), vex, telex, index, reflects, pontifex, vortex, analects, convex, ibex, Kleenex, narthex, apex, vertex, sex, perplex, apoplex, spinifex, simplex, insects, suspects, Kopeks, googleplex, háčeks, podex, complex, murex, spandex, wrecks, shipwrecks

Owing:
26?, 34d

Gosh, Jim, it's as if you're "bending over backward" to emulate a rhotic peculiarity of Southwestern England.

Och! Awa wi ye. It's my Glasgow upbringing and being taught Chinese by two Beijingers that lead me to use the retroflex 'r' sound.

Well done, Buck. Take it away.

What were the ones I missed?

Wow, a sinophone Glaswegian in Victoria: I can't even guess how you might pronounce your r's.

Great game, Jim. New round coming up soon.

And herrrre it is.

34d - outer layer was cortex

D'oh!

26 was cybersex

Again, D'oh!

Ok, I"ve missed it......what was the word?

Retroflex.