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I'd say it's fairly rare and just one of the many types of combination clue where more than one cryptic device is used together, and thus not especially worthy of separate mention. Much more common is to provide the anagram fodder and specify that a certain specific letter or letters must be omitted, though again this is much rarer in anagrams ...
The article didn't mention about the first crossword book which created by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster in 1924 from the New York World.It was a great leap of the development of crosswords.Well actually,it was just a compilation of crosswords in the archives.But it was kind of the first crossword book at that time.
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.
HEEL (36A: Shoe part that can be "high") The quotation marks around the word "heel" in the clue indicate that the word can be directly paired with the answer in the term "high HEEL."
Explore daily insights on the USA TODAY crossword puzzle by Sally Hoelscher. Uncover expert takes and answers in our crossword blog. ... I'm always happy to see a mention of ADA Lovelace (1815 ...
My cat, Willow, always appreciates a mention of her big cat cousin the lion. She's also happy that Katja shared a photo of her niece's cat, Nate, today. Look at Nate's white toes – adorable!
Half of this wordplay clue references Hope Solo, a longtime goalie for the U.S. women’s national soccer team who resettled in North Carolina after her playing career ended. STEPH 51D: N.B.A ...
Crossword clues are generally consistent with the solutions. For instance, clues and their solutions should always agree in tense, number, and degree. [6] If a clue is in the past tense, so is the answer: thus "Traveled on horseback" would be a valid clue for the solution RODE, but not for RIDE.