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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 ...
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.
The larger Sunday crossword, which appears in The New York Times Magazine, is an icon in American culture; it is typically intended to be a "Thursday-plus" in difficulty. [6] The standard daily crossword is 15 by 15 squares, while the Sunday crossword measures 21 by 21 squares.
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
Wine dregs, or dregs of wine, is a deep tone of the color wine. It refers to the color of the lees of wine which settle at the bottom of a wine vessel. The first recorded use of wine dregs as a color name in English was in 1924. [8] This color and old gold are the official colors of the Phi Delta Chi and Delta Psi fraternities.
The Vintner's Luck is a romantic fantasy novel by New Zealand author Elizabeth Knox, first published in 1998. It was her fourth full-length novel, and her first book published outside New Zealand. [ 1] The novel charts the relationship between a French winemaker (the vintner of the title), Sobran Jodeau, and an angel, Xas, who first visits ...
The Vintners' Company dining hall. The Worshipful Company of Vintners, one of the Great Twelve City Livery Companies, retains close links with the wine trade . The Vintners' Company traces its origins to the 12th century and received its swan rights from King Edward IV . Its motto is Vinum Exhilarat Animum, Latin for " Wine cheers the Spirit ".
Flavor Flav is making sure Jordan Chiles isn’t empty handed from the 2024 Paris Olympics. The 65-year-old rapper, who made headlines for his support of Team USA and its water polo team ...