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The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) 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.
Abbreviations, the use of a foreign language, variant spellings, or other unusual word tricks are indicated in the clue. A crossword creator might choose to clue the answer SEN (as in the abbreviation for "senator") as "Washington bigwig: Abbr." or "Member of Cong.", with the abbreviation in the clue indicating that the answer is to be ...
The 'crossword language' I know is very much that of the author of the webpage. All of which means there are likely to be similarities between the two lists of crossword abbreviations, but I'd argue that would be the case of any extensive alphabetical list of crossword abbreviations - particularly as the definitions can only be one or two letters.
DEC (23A: National Cat Lovers Month (Abbr.)) It's true, December (DEC.) is officially National Cat Lovers Month . Of course, my cat, Willow, makes sure that in our house every month is Cat Lovers ...
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 ...
[1] [2] [3] They are a subset of rebuses, and are commonly used as abbreviations. They are sometimes used as a component of cryptic crossword clues. [ 1 ] [ 4 ]
This is a list of common Latin abbreviations. Nearly all the abbreviations below have been adopted by Modern English . However, with some exceptions (for example, versus or modus operandi ), most of the Latin referent words and phrases are perceived as foreign to English.
A crossword is not disqualified from being a crossword if its blanked squares are not black. In many printing processes, pure solid black squares can be a technical nuisance; so, for puzzles that I compile, we have long used a grey shade because, on almost any printing system (including a normal personal use DTP printer), these are implemented ...