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Margaret Petherbridge Farrar (March 23, 1897 – June 11, 1984) was an American journalist and the first crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times (1942–1968). Creator of many of the rules of modern crossword design, she compiled and edited a long-running series of crossword puzzle books – including the first book of any kind that Simon & Schuster published (1924). [1]
The appearance of the Wombles in the books followed the design of the Ivor Wood TV puppets, with the exception of original editions of The Wombles (1968) and first printings of The Wandering Wombles, which preceded the TV series and depicted the Wombles as teddy bear-like creatures. When the 1973 animated Wombles series was in pre-production, a ...
The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter.It was published by Frederick Warne & Co. in October 1905.Mrs. Tiggy-winkle is a hedgehog washerwoman (laundress) who lives in a tiny cottage in the fells of the Lake District.
In the first printed issue of the novel, the word 'Decides' was misprinted as 'Decided', and the word 'saw' is mistyped as 'was' on page 57.
"Books" for OT or NT, as in Old Testament or New Testament. "Sailor" for AB, abbreviation of able seaman. "Take" for R, abbreviation of the Latin word recipe, meaning "take". Most abbreviations can be found in the Chambers Dictionary as this is the dictionary primarily used by crossword
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 post ‘I Had A Stroke’: 50 Typos That Might Just Send You Spiraling Down To Cuckoo Land first appeared on Bored Panda. No matter how many times you go through what you've written, you can ...
The Times crossword has been criticized for a lack of diversity in its constructors and clues. Major crosswords like those in the Times have historically been created and edited primarily by older white men. [60] Less than 30% of puzzle constructors in the Shortz Era have been women. [61]