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Here are additional clues for each of the words in today's Mini Crossword. NYT Mini Across Hints 1 Across: Hybrid utensil popularized by Kentucky Fried Chicken in the 1970s — HINT: It starts ...
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. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
Barring may refer to: . Barring (music), a guitar playing technique Barring engine, forms part of the installation of a large stationary steam engine; Barring order, an order used by a court to protect a person, object, business, company, state, country, establishment, or entity, and the general public, in a situation involving alleged domestic violence, child abuse, assault, harassment ...
In another notable Times crossword, 27-year-old Bill Gottlieb proposed to his girlfriend, Emily Mindel, via the crossword puzzle of January 7, 1998, written by noted crossword constructor Bob Klahn. [ 55 ] [ 56 ] The answer to 14-Across, [Microsoft chief, to some] was BILLG, also Gottlieb's name and last initial. 20-Across, [1729 Jonathan Swift ...
The barring engine needed to turn these rope drives over as well (although they were disconnected from the machinery at the remote end) and a simple manual gear was no longer sufficient. Around 1881–1883 there was a shift to the use of steam-powered barring engines. [4] Each mill engine manufacturer had their own style of barring engine. [1]
The male has slate-grey upper parts, pale grey throat and sides of head and dark grey tail tipped with white. The breast is rufous or cinnamon, often with barring, and the belly is creamy-white or pale buff. The female is similar but the colour of the breast is duller and with variable amounts of barring. [3]
In flight, showing tail barring Limosa lapponica, Finland The bar-tailed godwit is a relatively short-legged species of godwit . The bill-to-tail length is 37–41 cm (15–16 in), with a wingspan of 70–80 cm (28–31 in).
Barred Out, by Ralph Hedley (1896). Barring out is the former custom in British schools of barring a schoolmaster from the premises.. A typical example of this practice was at the school in Bromfield, Cumbria, [1] where it was the custom "for the scholars, at Fasting's Even (the beginning of Lent) to depose and exclude the master from the school for three days."