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A 15x15 lattice-style grid is common for cryptic crosswords. A cryptic crossword is a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated, [1] as well as Ireland, the Netherlands, and in several Commonwealth nations, including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malta, New Zealand, and South Africa.
Sharp has competed in the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, placing as high as 31st in 2011. [6] He used to test solve puzzles for the Times for some time before 2009. [10] He has constructed several crosswords published in the Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times since 2010. [7]
Roman numerals: for example the word "six" in the clue might be used to indicate the letters VI The name of a chemical element may be used to signify its symbol; e.g., W for tungsten The days of the week; e.g., TH for Thursday
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California, in 1881. [3] Based in the Greater Los Angeles area city of El Segundo since 2018, [4] it is the sixth-largest newspaper in the nation and the largest in the Western United States with a print circulation of 118,760.
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 ...
Millions of fruit flies are being dumped over Los Angeles as officials try to fight back against an invasive species.. Around 2.25 million sterile male fruit flies will be dropped over the Leimert ...
The discovery of 20 invasive Tau fruit flies prompted quarantine of produce of a neighborhood in Los Angeles County, the California Department of Food and Agriculture announced.
The fruit was known in the Akkadian language as supurgillu; "quinces" (collective plural), [8] which was borrowed into Aramaic as ספרגלין sparglin; it was known in Judea during the Mishnaic Hebrew as פרישין prishin (a loanword from Jewish Palestinian Aramaic פרישין "the miraculous [fruit]"); [9] quince flourished in the heat ...