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Excuse Me: 1925 Marjorie Newton MGM [32] Lady of the Night: 1925 Molly/Florence MGM [33] Waking Up the Town: 1925 Mary Ellen Hope United Artists [34] A Slave of Fashion: 1925 Katherine Emerson MGM [35] Pretty Ladies: 1925 Frances White MGM [36] The Tower of Lies: 1925 Glory MGM [37] His Secretary: 1925 Ruth Lawrence MGM [38] The Devil's Circus ...
I like this clue, because the inclusion of the word "aging" makes the answer inferable (with the help of crossing answers) to solvers who might not be familiar with this particular song.
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.
Crossword clues are generally consistent with the solutions. For instance, clues and their solutions should always agree in tense, number, and degree. [6] If a clue is in the past tense, so is the answer: thus "Traveled on horseback" would be a valid clue for the solution RODE, but not for RIDE.
The larger Sunday crossword, which appears in The New York Times Magazine, is an icon in American culture; it is typically intended to be a "Wednesday or Thursday" in difficulty. [7] The standard daily crossword is 15 by 15 squares, while the Sunday crossword measures 21 by 21 squares.
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."
A 15x15 lattice-style grid is common for cryptic crosswords. A cryptic crossword is a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated, [1] as well as Ireland, the Netherlands, and in several Commonwealth nations, including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malta, New Zealand, and South Africa.
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 ...