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What I Learned from Today’s Puzzle. DEMI (24A: "The Substance" actress Moore) The Substance is a 2024 movie in which DEMI Moore portrays a 50-year-old movie star whose fame is fading. She ...
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. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
A mondegreen (/ ˈ m ɒ n d ɪ ˌ ɡ r iː n / ⓘ) is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning. [1] Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to hear a lyric clearly, substitutes words that sound similar and make some kind of sense.
The American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (ACPT) is a crossword-solving tournament held annually in February, March, or April. Founded in 1978 by Will Shortz , who still directs the tournament, it is the oldest and largest crossword tournament held in the United States ; the 2023 event set an attendance record with more than 750 competitors.
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. 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 ...
(The Center Square) – A Republican lawmaker from Spokane has introduced House Bill 1699, known as the “Defending Equity in Interscholastic Sports Act,” that, according to a news release ...
Bless me, how fat you are grown! – absolutely as round as a ball: – you will soon be as embonpoint [note 1] [1] (excuse my French) as your poor dear father, the major. "Excuse my French" appears an 1895 edition of Harper's Weekly, where an American tourist asked about the architecture of Europe says "Palaces be durned! Excuse my French."
Excuse Me is a 1911 play by Rupert Hughes. It may refer to: Film. Excuse Me, an American silent comedy film based on the play by Rupert Hughes; Excuse Me, an ...