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  2. Bunyip - Wikipedia

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    Bunyip (1935), by Gerald Markham Lewis, from the National Library of Australia digital collections, demonstrates the variety in descriptions of the legendary creature.. The bunyip has been described as amphibious, almost entirely aquatic (there are no reports of the creature being sighted on land), [11] [a] inhabiting lakes, rivers, [12] swamps, lagoons, billabongs, [6] creeks, waterholes, [13 ...

  3. Acrostic (puzzle) - Wikipedia

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    Letters 16 and 17 form a two-letter word ending in P. Since this has to be UP, letter 16 is a U, which can be filled into the appropriate clue answer in the list of clues. Likewise, a three-letter word starting with A could be and, any, all, or even a proper name like Ann. One might need more clue answers before daring to guess which it could be.

  4. 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 ...

  5. List of swamp monsters - Wikipedia

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    [5] The Honey Island Swamp Monster is known in Louisiana. [6] [7] The skunk ape is a horrible-smelling large ape creature said to live in swamps in the Southeastern United States. [8] The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp was the subject of a hoax in South Carolina in the late 1980s. [9]

  6. Chimera (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    The Chimera first appeared early in the repertory of the proto-Corinthian pottery painters, providing some of the earliest identifiable mythological scenes that may be recognized in Greek art. After some early hesitation, the Corinthian type was fixed in the 670s BC; the variations in the pictorial representations suggest multiple origins to ...

  7. Asp (snake) - Wikipedia

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    [5] According to Plutarch , the Egyptian queen Cleopatra , in preparing for her own suicide, tested various deadly poisons on condemned people and concluded that the bite of the asp (from the Greek word aspis, usually meaning an Egyptian cobra in Ptolemaic Egypt, and not the European asp ) was the least terrible way to die; the venom brought ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. List of legendary creatures (H) - Wikipedia

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    Hippocampus drawn from a fresco in Pompeii. Hábrók – listed as the "best" hawk; Hadhayosh – gigantic land animal; Hades – Ruler of the Underworld; Haetae – dog-lion hybrid