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  2. Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword ...

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    COLD CUT: The word CHILL (a synonym for COLD) is CUT by each theme answer: CHEAP THRILL, CHARCOAL GRILL, and CAPITOL HILL. I always attempt to guess the puzzle's theme from the title.

  3. Spiral puzzle - Wikipedia

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    The puzzle is formed of a long chain of letters, which spell out a list of clued words when read in either direction. [1] The solutions to the left are entered in the boxes from 1 to 100. The responses to the right provide another set of words that must be entered from 100 to 1. [ 2 ]

  4. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Roman numerals: for example the word "six" in the clue might be used to indicate the letters VI; The name of a chemical element may be used to signify its symbol; e.g., W for tungsten; The days of the week; e.g., TH for Thursday; Country codes; e.g., "Switzerland" can indicate the letters CH; ICAO spelling alphabet: where Mike signifies M and ...

  5. The New York Times crossword - Wikipedia

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    Times style is to always capitalize the first letter of a clue, regardless of whether the clue is a complete sentence or whether the first word is a proper noun. On occasion, this is used to deliberately create difficulties for the solver; e.g., in the clue [John, for one], it is ambiguous whether the clue is referring to the proper name John ...

  6. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. The New York Times Spelling Bee - Wikipedia

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    The player scores points by using the letters to form words consisting of four or more letters. However, any words proposed by the player must include the letter at the center of the honeycomb. Each letter can be used more than once. You get one point for each letter in the word, except four letter words only score 1 point.

  8. Hangman (game) - Wikipedia

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    Example game in which the letters A and N but not the whole word HANGMAN were guessed – incorrect guesses are noted at the bottom Hangman is a guessing game for two or more players. One player thinks of a word , phrase , or sentence and the other(s) tries to guess it by suggesting letters or numbers within a certain number of guesses.

  9. Le Griffon - Wikipedia

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    Le Griffon (French pronunciation: [lə ɡʁifɔ̃], The Griffin) was a sailing vessel built by French explorer and fur trader René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle in the Niagara area of New York in 1679.