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

I can't do clever clues, so Crambo's word rhymes with "car".

My son's dog ate the leg of his new table. Don't you hate it when something happens to disrupt beauty?

I hope that didn't make it a stool! That would mar the decor!

Not: mar
Alpha not: mar

To keep it literary, I'll quote
H W L's lines:
". . .A phantom ship with each mast and __ __ __ __

Across the moon , like a prison bar."

Crambo is more like a scenic cruise than a hostile invasion!

Not: mar, spar
Alpha not: mar, spar

Classic Limerick:

"For beauty, I am not a star;
THere are others more handsome by far.
My face: I don't mind it,
But then, I'm BEHIND it!
It's the people in front that I __ __ __.

Wilson clearly thought he had the face for radio! Not jar.

Not: mar, spar, jar
Alpha not: jar, mar, spar

Some people like to grill meat because they get a lovely flavor from the blackened part. (It doesn't work quite so well with tofu.)

And some authorities say that the black bits can be charcinogenic!

Not: mar, spar, jar, char
Alpha not: char, jar, mar, spar

/* We're a couple of syllables short in the guesses so far */

My granny had one of these on every chair in her house.

As a kid I always mentally heard that as antimassacre!

Not: mar, spar, jar, char, antimacassar
Alpha not: antimacassar, char, jar, mar, spar

/* and that guess had a couple too many syllables */

I'm feeling extra strong today, do you want to go a round in the ring with me?

Hmm.. we've had spar (in a slightly different sense), so maybe you don't mean boxing. I'm afraid I'm going around and around.

Not: mar, spar, jar, char, antimacassar, circular
Alpha not: antimacassar, circular, char, jar, mar, spar

Sorry, guess I wasn't paying attention. As penance, I'll put my foot up on this and do 1/2 hour of ballet moves.

Not the South of Ireland but the North
Is called "The __ __ __ Down"! Tommy __ __ __r set forth,
From a land SW of there, to fight
Joe Louis in NYC on that '37 night.
The decision (15 rounds) went in Joe's
Favor, but the Welshman, with honor, did lose.

#14 Lawyers can spend many years at the bar, and often many more in them! However, it rarely makes them as petite as ballet dancers!

#15 I'm afraid, Roland, that you are far from the answer, although, despite Crambo's word not being the name of any particular person, Joe Loius, Henry Longfellow, Woodrow Wilson, and even Paul Revere are all strangely relevant.

Not: mar, spar, jar, char, antimacassar, circular, bar, far
Alpha not: antimacassar, bar, circular, char, far, jar, mar, spar

That clue is just too strange.

Perhaps it doesn't end in -ar after all,
(Since Louis,Longfellow, et al.
Are "Strangely relevant"? Could it end in -A?

(In my dialect an unspelled R has a way
Of attaching itself, to a fin-
-al vowel, so (if the pronunciation were mine),
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
could be the one!)
Which would lead to no end of fun.
With the R not spelt out but said;
Or to bad English have I you led?

#17 That's peculiar, but its not Crambo's word, although being peculiar is relevant in a way.

#18 Sometimes I pick a rhyming word where the ending has a different spelling, however not this time. My dictionary has about 1500 9-letter words ending in 'a', and there are many excellent prospective Crambo words among them. I'll volunteer 'guerrilla', but I'm afraid, Roland, that I'll need more of a hint from you.

Not: mar, spar, jar, char, antimacassar, circular, bar, far, peculiar, guerilla
Alpha not: antimacassar, bar, circular, char, far, guerilla, jar, mar, peculiar, spar

". . . ending has a different spelling, however NOT this time. . ." (19)
Thanks!
("guerilla", b t w, is one letter short of my guess.)

Hint on 18:

A large expensive set of
books had "__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ A" in its name (2nd word of the title); it can still be found in some libraries, but no new editions: it was presumably put out of business by the Internet

#20 I used to think that having a set of Encyclopedia Britannica would be cool, however, as you suggest, I suspect that I would never actually use them. The EB contains many of Crambo's word.

Not: mar, spar, jar, char, antimacassar, circular, bar, far, peculiar, guerilla, encyclopedia, britannica
Alpha not: antimacassar, bar, britannica, circular, char, encyclopedia, far, guerilla, jar, mar, peculiar, spar

On 18--20:

Encyclopedia, SI!,
Brittanica, NO!

My guess can be (Renaissance) Latin, English, or Spanish. (In this case U. S. English.)

("__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ a/o" in Spanish would usually mean Western Hemispheric MINUS the English-speaking countries! In U.S. English it = "estadounidense"/ "norteamericano"

#22 Americana? I must confess my antipodean ignorance of that Encyclopedia! And no, being American wasn't the common feature I had in mind.

Not: mar, spar, jar, char, antimacassar, circular, bar, far, peculiar, guerilla, encyclopedia, britannica, americana
Alpha not: americana, antimacassar, bar, britannica, circular, char, encyclopedia, far, guerilla, jar, mar, peculiar, spar

22>23

Yes, Americana! One thing I miss about it is that it had
a good map of each of the 50
U. S. states, with a listing of all their counties and municipalities and their populations. I could probably duplicate this in Google or Yahoo, but not without being referred to a lot of extraneous, marginally-related material.

Consonants D, L, N and T

I think I'll go down to the village square and take in a puppet show and some jugglers whilst buying my pots and pans and ribbons.

#24 Was there a suggestion in there Roland?

#25 You've educated me, Jenni, but I'm afraid that Crambo's word is not alveolar. Crambo's word is a noun, not an adjective.

#26 I'll have to think harder about that one!

Not: mar, spar, jar, char, antimacassar, circular, bar, far, peculiar, guerilla, encyclopedia, britannica, americana, alveolar
Alpha not: alveolar, americana, antimacassar, bar, britannica, circular, char, encyclopedia, far, guerilla, jar, mar, peculiar, spar

#26 is a homonym with #17 which was not peculiar but has the same meaning.

"Was there a suggestion
in (24)?. . ." (27)

No, no guess, no suggestion.

#28 Thanks for the hint and the correction. Its bizarre that bazaar is not Crambo's word.

Not: mar, spar, jar, char, antimacassar, circular, bar, far, peculiar, guerilla, encyclopedia, britannica, americana, alveolar, bizarre, bazaar
Alpha not: alveolar, americana, antimacassar, bar, bazaar, bizarre, britannica, circular, char, encyclopedia, far, guerilla, jar, mar, peculiar, spar

Shoot, evidently I'm taking more strokes than I should to guess this.

#31 I'm not sure what par is for Crambo!

Not: mar, spar, jar, char, antimacassar, circular, bar, far, peculiar, guerilla, encyclopedia, britannica, americana, alveolar, bizarre, bazaar, par
Alpha not: alveolar, americana, antimacassar, bar, bazaar, bizarre, britannica, circular, char, encyclopedia, far, guerilla, jar, mar, par, peculiar, spar

Joan of Arc, the cathedral at Chartres, the inclined plane, Phythagoras' Theorem, Leonardo da Vinci, Monet.

Old Russian proverb:
"Do Bozha: visoko'
Do Ts__ __ __:
Daleko'!" /

"GOd is a long way up,
and the __ __ __ __
is a long way off!"

Curiously, the transliteration of
this word is usually made from
the Polish, not from the Russian;
Ts__ __ (the Russian) is
an alternate spelling
in English.

#33 Crambo's word is neither tsar nor czar. Alexander II of Russia might fit into the list above, Nicholas II arguably wouldn't.

Not: mar, spar, jar, char, antimacassar, circular, bar, far, peculiar, guerilla, encyclopedia, britannica, americana, alveolar, bizarre, bazaar, par, tsar, czar
Alpha not: alveolar, americana, antimacassar, bar, bazaar, bizarre, britannica, circular, char, czar, encyclopedia, far, guerilla, jar, mar, par, peculiar, spar, tsar

Crambo's word has literally a couple more syllables than 1, and literally a couple less than 5. Crambo's word starts with a vowel.

ET correct 'than' for 'that'

On my Facebook page mine is a picture of 2 of my dogs in Halloween t-shirts.

I realiize now that this one could not be the Crambo! Word ( It won't be monosyllabic, and doesn't start w/a consonant: from the last paragraph of 34.)

"The __ __ __"

A fish,often eaten by James Lee
Burke's characters; you'll see
It with the word "alligat-
-or" in front of it. I'll state
(or admit) that I knew it was ed-
-ible and not much else. Enough said.
Still haven't seen it outside
Of Burke's books or the Dic-
-tionary; not to be snide,
I'll call it perfectly good
English. Got it? You should.

#35 Great suggestion - I'm afraid that my avatar on Facebook is still generic - despite my kids nagging me. Unfortunately not Crambo's word. The movie Avatar might fit the description.

Not: mar, spar, jar, char, antimacassar, circular, bar, far, peculiar, guerilla, encyclopedia, britannica, americana, alveolar, bizarre, bazaar, par, tsar, czar, avatar
Alpha not: alveolar, americana, antimacassar, avatar, bar, bazaar, bizarre, britannica, circular, char, czar, encyclopedia, far, guerilla, jar, mar, par, peculiar, spar, tsar

#36 I'm gar-na say no to that suggestion!

Not: mar, spar, jar, char, antimacassar, circular, bar, far, peculiar, guerilla, encyclopedia, britannica, americana, alveolar, bizarre, bazaar, par, tsar, czar, avatar, gar
Alpha not: alveolar, americana, antimacassar, avatar, bar, bazaar, bizarre, britannica, circular, char, czar, encyclopedia, far, gar, guerilla, jar, mar, par, peculiar, spar, tsar

Just saw. in Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. a mention of a WW II
"__. __. __. Man". Strictly speaking, that's not a "Word" but the initials of 3 words. But the rhyme seems to be okay.
It's even kind of literary:The 1st "word" is the initial
of something having the same name as a famous Victorian poet.
I think "The __ __ __*
Man" is also the title of a
RIchard Yates short story.

*I put in the periods, above, just to show that it is 3 initials, not because the
literary writers did.

#39 The Richard Yates story is "The B.A.R. Man" – but I'm not sure about the Slaughterhouse Five context

Citizenjoyce (may I call you Joyce?) was getting synonymously close.

Not: mar, spar, jar, char, antimacassar, circular, bar, far, peculiar, guerilla, encyclopedia, britannica, americana, alveolar, bizarre, bazaar, par, tsar, czar, avatar, gar
Alpha not: alveolar, americana, antimacassar, avatar, bar, bazaar, bizarre, britannica, circular, char, czar, encyclopedia, far, gar, guerilla, jar, mar, par, peculiar, spar, tsar

"Iʻm not sure about the Slaughterhouse Five context."
( of B A R man). (40)

"SL H-5" was my mistake; it was actually a James Lee Burke
short story that I was thinking of. Youʻre right about Yates.

I'm astonished, nay gobsmacked, that no-one has gazed into the night sky to make a guess on this one.

(By the way, what is the "Alpha not" all about?)

#41 Roland, do I still owe you a guess?

#42, 42 Hi Tid, welcome to Crambo! Anyone who plays Crambo is a star, but I'm afraid that's not Crambo's word. Although anyone, or anything that is Crambo's word is arguably a star in their field. I'll also rule out quasar and pulsar.

The "Alpha not" is the list of unsuccessful guesses in alphabetical order to make it easier to spot if a word you are thinking of suggesting has already been suggested. I use the "Not" list for excluded words in chronological order for people to see what I though the word was that they were proposing - sometimes we get it wrong.

Not: mar, spar, jar, char, antimacassar, circular, bar, far, peculiar, guerilla, encyclopedia, britannica, americana, alveolar, bizarre, bazaar, par, tsar, czar, avatar, gar, star, quasar, pulsar.
Alpha not: alveolar, americana, antimacassar, avatar, bar, bazaar, bizarre, britannica, circular, char, czar, encyclopedia, far, gar, guerilla, jar, mar, par, peculiar, pulsar, quasar, spar, star, tsar

A person or thing that serves as a model or pattern to be copied or imitated?

#45 And you, Jim, are a paragon, an avatar, the embodiment, nay, the exemplar of incisive Crambo play. Congratulation! Crambo's word is indeed exemplar.

Over to you.

Put on your leisure suit and join the new game here.