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The LORAX is a character who "speaks for the trees," and confronts the Once-ler, a business person causing environmental destruction. A few other clues I especially enjoyed: EERIE (22A: Like an ...
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What I Learned from Today’s Puzzle. EAT (24A: Have an alfajor) An alfajor is a sweet treat found in the cuisines of many Latin American countries. Alfajores are sandwich cookies. Although many ...
In ancient Greece, it was generally reckoned as 1 ⁄ 6 drachma (c. 0.72 grams or 11 grains). [14] [15] Under Roman rule, it was defined as 1 ⁄ 48 Roman ounce or about 0.57 g (9 gr). [16] The apothecaries' system also reckoned the obol or obolus as 1 ⁄ 48 ounce or 1 ⁄ 2 scruple. While 0.72 grams was the weight of a standard Greek obol ...
Cryptic crossword clues consist typically of a definition and some type of word play. Cryptic crossword clues need to be viewed two ways. One is a surface reading and one a hidden meaning. [27] The surface reading is the basic reading of the clue to look for key words and how those words are constructed in the clue. The second way is the hidden ...
The association between the owl and the goddess continued through Minerva in Roman mythology, although the latter sometimes simply adopts it as a sacred or favorite bird.. For example, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Corone the crow complains that her spot as the goddess' sacred bird is occupied by the owl, which in that particular story turns out to be Nyctimene, a cursed daughter of Epopeus, king ...
For every 3 non-theme words you find, you earn a hint. Hints show the letters of a theme word. If there is already an active hint on the board, a hint will show that word’s letter order.
An acrostic is a type of word puzzle, related somewhat to crossword puzzles, that uses an acrostic form. It typically consists of two parts. It typically consists of two parts. The first part is a set of lettered clues, each of which has numbered blanks representing the letters of the answer.