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  2. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Crosswordese - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. The Most Happy Fella - Wikipedia

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    If people feel that way – fine. Actually all it has is a great frequency of songs. It's a musical with music.' " [2] In an article in the Playbill Magazine for the original Broadway production, Loesser wrote, "What was left seemed to me to be a very warm simple love story, happy ending and all, and dying to be sung and danced."

  5. Inuit clothing - Wikipedia

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    The hide of the barren-ground caribou, an Arctic subspecies of caribou, was the most important source of material for clothing of all kinds, as it was readily available, versatile, and, when left with the fur intact, very warm. [107] Caribou fur grows in two layers, which trap air, which is then warmed up by body heat.

  6. The New York Times crossword - Wikipedia

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    Clues and answers must always match in part of speech, tense, aspect, number, and degree. A plural clue always indicates a plural answer and a clue in the past tense always has an answer in the past tense. A clue containing a comparative or superlative always has an answer in the same degree (e.g., [Most difficult] for TOUGHEST). [6]

  7. Caldarium - Wikipedia

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    This was a very hot and steamy room heated by a hypocaust, an underfloor heating system using tunnels with hot air, [2] heated by a furnace tended by slaves. It was also the hottest room in the regular sequence of bathing rooms; after the caldarium , bathers would progress back through the tepidarium to the frigidarium .

  8. Hyperthermophile - Wikipedia

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    A hyperthermophile is an organism that thrives in extremely hot environments—from 60 °C (140 °F) upwards. An optimal temperature for the existence of hyperthermophiles is often above 80 °C (176 °F). [1]

  9. Heat wave - Wikipedia

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    A high pressure system in the upper atmosphere traps heat near the ground, forming a heat wave (for North America in this example). A heat wave or heatwave, sometimes described as extreme heat, is a period of abnormally hot weather [1]: 2911 generally considered to be at least five consecutive days.