The Clue
River crossed by the Longfellow Bridge (7 letter answer)
The Answer
CHARLES
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Notes
The answer CHARLES is rarely seen, appearing only about once every 1200 puzzles.
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Definition
CHARLES as a noun:
1. (Charles, Charles IX) = King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574)
2. (Charles, Charles VII) = King of France who began his reign with most of northern France under English control; after the intervention of Jeanne d'Arc the French were able to defeat the English and end the Hundred Years' War (1403-1461)
3. (Charles, Charles II, Charles I, Charles the Bald) = as Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he was king of France (823-877)
4. (Charles, Charles II) = King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration (1630-1685)
5. (Charles, Charles I, Charles Stuart) = son of James I who was King of England and Scotland and Ireland; was deposed and executed by Oliver Cromwell (1600-1649)
6. (Charles, Prince Charles) = the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948)
7. (Charles, Jacques Charles, Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles) = French physicist and author of Charles's law which anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823)
8. (Charlemagne, Carolus, Charles, Charles I, Charles the Great) = king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814)
9. (Charles, Charles River) = a river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston