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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 ...
A clue could also consist of objects that point a direction, e.g., "vane dir." or "windsock dir.". Roman numerals, and arithmetic involving them, frequently appear as well; the clue "IV times III" (4×3) would yield XII (12). In addition, partial answers are allowed in American-style crosswords, where the answer represents part of a longer phrase.
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.
These numbers, borrowing crossword terminology, are commonly called "clues". The objective of the puzzle is to insert a digit from 1 to 9 inclusive into each white cell so that the sum of the numbers in each entry matches the clue associated with it and that no digit is duplicated in any entry.
Partial seizure or focal seizure, a seizure that initially affects only one hemisphere of the brain; Partial or Part score, in contract bridge a trick score less than 100, as well as other meanings; Partial or Partial wave, one sound wave of which a complex tone is composed in a harmonic series; Showing partiality, favor, or bias
In a partial blend, one entire word is concatenated with a splinter from another. [9] Some linguists do not recognize these as blends. [15] An entire word may be followed by a splinter: dumb + confound ⇒ dumbfound [n 2] fan + magazine ⇒ fanzine [n 3] A splinter may be followed by an entire word:
Peridotite (US: / ˈ p ɛ r ɪ d oʊ ˌ t aɪ t, p ə ˈ r ɪ d ə-/ PERR-ih-doh-tyte, pə-RID-ə-) is a dense, coarse-grained igneous rock consisting mostly of the silicate minerals olivine and pyroxene.
Alonso Quijano (or Quesada, or Quijada), who calls himself Don Quixote (can be modernized as Quijote), a Spanish gentleman and hidalgo of La Mancha, who believes himself to be, and acts as befitting, a knight-errant as described in various medieval books of chivalry, which he reads avidly until he goes insane.