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Answer for the clue "Diamond-shaped pattern for woollens ", 6 letters:
argyle

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Population (2000): 289 Housing Units (2000): 132 Land area (2000): 0.356407 sq. miles (0.923091 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.356407 sq. miles (0.923091 sq. km) FIPS code: 02550 Located within: New ...

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The Argyle Museum held millions in priceless treasures - but only The Shadow knew that it harbored crime within!

CHAPTER I MANHATTAN MENACE LIKE a crouched monster watching for its prey, the Argyle Museum squatted in its own gloom, surrounded by darkness that was itself a relic of departed years.

Living and dying in the days of plutocrats, Argyle had left the ornate mansion and its surrounding grounds as a museum, not only to bear his name but to contain the many art treasures on which he had spent much of his vast fortune.

The status of the Argyle Museum had never been quite fully established.

Men of wealth, all these, who cherished the memory of Henry Argyle and kept close watch upon the preserves over which they had been appointed guardians.

Old Argyle, in all his elaborate precautions to protect his treasures for posterity, had not foreseen the day when attacks would be possible from the air.

Should a lone air raider fly over Manhattan and drop a single demolition bomb in the blackened hollow where the Argyle Museum was flanked by towering skyscrapers, there would be utter devastation among the priceless antiquities that old Henry had accumulated.

IF ever crime could wish an opportunity, it had one - the priceless possessions of the Argyle Museum!

About to reload, Clyde heard indignant buzzes from the directors near him and realized that the heroic bust represented old Henry Argyle, the presiding deity in these precincts.

CHAPTER II THRUSTS FROM THE DARK OUTSIDE the Argyle Museum, the armored vans had slithered smoothly to a stop in front of the great stone gates.

Lapine as the latter was to crack down on banks - or the Argyle Museum.

Slashing down the nearest marksman, he delivered a fierce, challenging laugh that rose to a mighty, shivering crescendo, waking what seemed to be the echoes of gathered years from the vast gloom surrounding the Argyle Museum!

They dashed - except for a few who staggered - straight through the gate that led to the Argyle Museum!

Immediately, the old grounds of the Argyle mansion became the scene of a fray so incongruous that it seemed impossible that such could have happened in Manhattan.

Fighters launched by Croom, the dependable protector of the Argyle treasures.