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Plot summary. A man named Manton has horribly killed his two children and his wife, the latter of whom lacked the middle toe of the right foot. Ten years later he returns much altered to the neighborhood; and, being secretly recognized, is provoked into a bowie-knife duel in the dark, to be held in the now-abandoned house where his crime was ...
Leonard Dawe, Telegraph crossword compiler, created these puzzles at his home in Leatherhead. Dawe was headmaster of Strand School, which had been evacuated to Effingham, Surrey. Adjacent to the school was a large camp of US and Canadian troops preparing for D-Day, and as security around the camp was lax, there was unrestricted contact between ...
Roger Squires. Squires in 2005. Roger Squires (22 February 1932 – 1 June 2023) was a British crossword compiler/setter, who lived in Ironbridge, Shropshire. He was best known for being the world's most prolific compiler. He compiled under the pseudonym Rufus in The Guardian, Dante in The Financial Times and was the Monday setter for the Daily ...
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.
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Hull said she was walking to the range, smoking a cigarette, and her hands were full when someone asked her for an autograph. “I always like signing autographs,” she said at the Women's Open ...
Blend word. In linguistics, a blend —also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau[ a] —is a word formed, usually intentionally, by combining the sounds and meanings of two or more words. [ 2][ 3][ 4] English examples include smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, [ 3][ 5] as well as motel, from motor ( motorist) and hotel. [ 6]
A teacher asked his daughter to mend a student's coat. This is the note she slipped into one of the pockets. (Courtesy Jay) It was a note from the teacher’s 17-year-old daughter, Brianna. “Hey ...