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SUN (50A: What Ra, Sol, Helios and Huitzilopochtli personify) I like that this clue highlights the fact that many cultures have SUN deities as part of their legends. Ra is an ancient Egyptian SUN god.
The Sun is 1.4 million kilometers (4.643 light-seconds) wide, about 109 times wider than Earth, or four times the Lunar distance, and contains 99.86% of all Solar System mass. The Sun is a G-type main-sequence star that makes up about 99.86% of the mass of the Solar System. [26]
This will rise to 10 −6 M ☉ /year on the asymptotic giant branch, before peaking at a rate of 10 −5 to 10 −4 M ☉ /year as the Sun generates a planetary nebula. By the time the Sun becomes a degenerate white dwarf, it will have lost 46% of its starting mass. [15] The mass of the Sun has been decreasing since the time it formed.
Anacrostic may be the most accurate term used, and hence most common, as it is a portmanteau of anagram and acrostic, referencing the fact that the solution is an anagram of the clue answers, and the author of the quote is hidden in the clue answers acrostically.
By astronomical convention, the four seasons are determined by the solstices (the two points in the Earth's orbit of the maximum tilt of the Earth's axis, toward the Sun or away from the Sun) and the equinoxes (the two points in the Earth's orbit where the Earth's tilted axis and an imaginary line drawn from the Earth to the Sun are exactly ...
Tributes to the Denver native poured in from her colleagues. “We lost a beloved member of our KOLD news team. Ana Orsini was our anchor, a leader of the morning team, and most importantly a ...
Clausing estimated that the combination of new tariffs Trump proposed could create consumer costs of at least 1.8% of GDP, not including additional costs from retaliatory tariffs and lost ...
He compiled for The Sun (1992–1998), The Times (1993–2005) and the Times Educational Supplement (1981–2006). He has set crosswords under pseudonyms including Rufus, Dante, Icarus, Hodge and Bower. [3] In 1990 he captained the Great Britain crossword team in the 12 nation International Crossword Marathon in Bjelovar, Yugoslavia.