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USA TODAY’s Daily Crossword Puzzles Sudoku & Crossword Puzzle Answers This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Crossword Blog & Answers for February 15, 2025 by Sally Hoelscher
LYE (58A: Bagel-making chemical) To make bagels, yeasted wheat dough is shaped into a ring, briefly boiled in water (that may contain LYE, baking soda, barley malt syrup, or honey), and then baked.
Ottoman footstools are often sold as coordinating furniture with armchairs, sofas, or gliders. Other names for this piece of furniture include footstool , [ 5 ] hassock , [ 6 ] pouf (sometimes spelled pouffe ), [ 7 ] [ 8 ] in Shropshire , England, the old dialect word tumpty , [ 9 ] and in Newfoundland humpty .
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 ...
A 1991 study by the BBC's television series Q.E.D. found that when toast is tossed into the air, it lands butter-side down just one-half of the time (as would be predicted by chance). [4] However, several scientific studies have found that when toast is dropped from a table (as opposed to being thrown in the air), it more often falls butter ...
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 ...
go down (fig.) to leave a university (as Oxford) to come down (with an illness) to be accepted or remembered (e.g. go down in history) to fail, esp. of a computer go down on, to engage in oral sex: to go on, happen (often a major event, e.g. a drug bust "it's going down right now!" or "it went down last week".
Sharp began writing about the daily New York Times crossword puzzle as practice for a possible website for a comics course. [6] [10] He writes under a pseudonym—Rex Parker, King of CrossWorld—that was originally a nickname invented during a family trip to Hawaii; his real-life identity was outed in 2007.