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The day-and-night (νυχθήμερον) was probably first divided into 24 hours by Hipparchus of Nicaea. [13] The Greek astronomer Andronicus of Cyrrhus oversaw the construction of a horologion called the Tower of the Winds in Athens during the first century BCE. This structure tracked a 24-hour day using both sundials and mechanical hour ...
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 letter, while the black squares are used to ...
We have a new crossword for this month – once more, all of the answers have something to do with Wikipedia, though the clues may seem unrelated. This month's answers are taken from Wikipedia's Featured Articles – every correct answer will be the title of one of the articles listed on that page.
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21. Wikipedia predecessor Down. 1. Only 35 hold this esteemed role 2. Cebuano expanding machine 3. Standard and reusable text 4. Organizational grouping 6. The whole shebang 7. ISBN automat 9. Lives under a bridge – don't feed it 10. Judged by a jury of our 12. Our first line of defense 16. eras. eval., in other words
In 1950, the crossword became a daily feature. That first daily puzzle was published without an author line, and as of 2001 the identity of the author of the first weekday Times crossword remained unknown. [13] There have been four editors of the puzzle. Farrar edited the puzzle from its inception in 1942 until 1969.
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Cryptic crosswords often use abbreviations to clue individual letters or short fragments of the overall solution. These include: Any conventional abbreviations found in a standard dictionary, such as: