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The Verified Answer for Proverbs and the like is:
- FOLKWISDOM
Useful hints for “Proverbs and the like” Crossword Clue
Hint 1: Clue Explanation
▼We’ve been having a very cold, slow spring in New York — flowering trees, shrubs and bulbs love this, but gardeners are itching to put out their tender plants, tomatoes and peppers. Horticultural FOLK WISDOM comes in handy in these cases: It may be Memorial Day weekend, but if big bearded irises aren’t blooming in your neck of the woods yet, your peppers are still in danger. This goes with the NOONDAY SUN at the other end of the acrosses, as Mr. Moore mentions in his notes. (As do “mad dogs and Englishmen.” I do not detest a siesta.)