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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.
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 ...
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 ...
Ōe, a town in Yamagata, Japan; Ōe, a former town in Kyoto, Japan; Ōe, a train station in Kyoto, Japan; Ōe, a train station in Aichi, Japan; Oe, a train station in Nagasaki, Japan; Oe, a town in Liège city in Walloon Region, Belgium; Of, a town in the province of Trabzon, Turkey; Og, a river in Wiltshire, England
A town in the Philippines that means "to fool [a person]" in the Cebuano language. Bird-in-Hand: A town in Pennsylvania, USA - forget all about the "two-in-the-bush" here (even though that saying is said to have "originated" here), as this town could get one awful dirty. Birr: A very cold place in Ireland. Bishop's Itchington: A village in England.
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.
Since A's answer invariably would be "I'm a knight", it is not possible to determine whether A is a knight or knave from the information provided. Maurice Kraitchik presents the same puzzle in the 1953 book Mathematical Recreations , where two groups on a remote island – the Arbus and the Bosnins – either lie or tell the truth, and respond ...
This is a list of nicknames and slogans of cities in Canada.Many Canadian cities and communities are known by various aliases, slogans, sobriquets, and other nicknames to the general population at either the local, regional, national, or international scales, often due to marketing campaigns and widespread usage in the media.