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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.
His favorite individual clue is "It might turn into a different story" (whose solution is SPIRAL STAIRCASE). [19] In addition to work as a crossword editor, Shortz is a skilled table tennis player. He has co-owned the Westchester Table Tennis Center in Pleasantville, New York since 2009, and has been playing table tennis daily for the past 11 ...
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 ...
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Perhaps the most famous is the November 5, 1996, puzzle by Jeremiah Farrell, published on the day of the U.S. presidential election, which has been featured in the movie Wordplay and the book The Crossword Obsession by Coral Amende, as well as discussed by Peter Jennings on ABC News, featured on CNN, and elsewhere.
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While many workers fear that automation or artificial intelligence will take their jobs, history has shown that when jobs in some sectors disappear, jobs in new sectors are created. [1] One example is the United States, where a century of increasing productivity and technological improvements changed the percentage of Americans employed in the ...
Jeeves (born Reginald Jeeves, nicknamed Reggie [1]) is a fictional character in a series of comedic short stories and novels by English author P. G. Wodehouse.Jeeves is the highly competent valet of a wealthy and idle young Londoner named Bertie Wooster.