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In the Zork series of games, the Great Underground Empire has its own system of measurements, the most frequently referenced of which is the bloit. Defined as the distance the king's favorite pet can run in one hour (spoofing a popular legend about the history of the foot), the length of the bloit varies dramatically, but the one canonical conversion to real-world units puts it at ...
Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start and/or end with vowels, abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual combinations of ...
Pandora's box. A pithos from Crete, c. 675 BC. Louvre. Pandora's box is an artifact in Greek mythology connected with the myth of Pandora in Hesiod 's c. 700 B.C. poem Works and Days. [ 1] Hesiod related that curiosity led her to open a container left in the care of her husband, thus releasing curses upon mankind.
Wonderful Nurseries, in an email, said its employees “on their own accord, gave up their pay to travel and protest the state labor board and the UFW and say they did not want to be part of any ...
The following is a sortable table of number of songs by Frank Sinatra: . The column Song lists the song title.; The column Year lists the year in which the song was recorded. (Note: Such words as a, an, and the are not recognized as first words of titles):
Unlike in some easier puzzles in other outlets, the number of words in the answer is not given in the clue—so a one-word clue can have a multiple-word answer. [ 26 ] The theme, if any, will be applied consistently throughout the puzzle; e.g., if one of the theme entries is a particular variety of pun, all the theme entries will be of that type.
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
On 18 August 1942, a day before the Dieppe raid, 'Dieppe' appeared as an answer in The Daily Telegraph crossword (set on 17 August 1942) (clued "French port"), causing a security alarm. The War Office suspected that the crossword had been used to pass intelligence to the enemy and called upon Lord Tweedsmuir, then a senior intelligence officer ...