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Edward Powys Mathers (28 August 1892 – 3 February 1939) was an English translator and poet, and also a pioneer of compiling advanced cryptic crosswords.Powys Mathers was born in Forest Hill, London, the son of Edward Peter Mathers, newspaper proprietor. [1]
The French in the title, along with "wish my French were good enough", is used as a refrain. It means "darling, I love you very much." When the song was written, "je vous aime" (using the respectful second person plural) was the normal way of saying "I love you" in French - until a threshold of intimacy had been reached, or in public
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not. Giacomo Di Chirico, 1872. He loves me, he loves me not or She loves me, she loves me not (originally effeuiller la marguerite in French) is a game of French origin [citation needed], in which one person seeks to determine whether the object of their affection returns that affection.
The remarkable feature of the puzzle is that 39-Across could be answered either CLINTON or BOB DOLE, and all the Down clues and answers that crossed it would work either way (e.g., [Black Halloween animal] could be either BAT or CAT depending on which answer you filled in at 39-Across; similarly [French 101 word] could equal LUI or OUI, etc.). [52]
In a puzzle, the solver is expected to put pieces together (or take them apart) in a logical way, in order to find the solution of the puzzle. There are different genres of puzzles, such as crossword puzzles, word-search puzzles, number puzzles, relational puzzles, and logic puzzles. The academic study of puzzles is called enigmatology.
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:
"If I Only Had Time" - "Je n'aurai pas le temps" (Translation: "I Won't Have Time") "If That's What It Takes" - "Pour que tu m'aimes encore" (Translation: So That You'll Still Love Me) "If You Go Away" - "Ne Me Quitte Pas" (Translation: "Don't Leave Me") "If You Love Me (Really Love Me)" - "Hymne a l'amour" (Translation: "Love Hymn")
Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start or end with vowels (or both), abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual ...