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Margaret Petherbridge Farrar (March 23, 1897 – June 11, 1984) was an American journalist and the first crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times (1942–1968). Creator of many of the rules of modern crossword design, she compiled and edited a long-running series of crossword puzzle books – including the first book of any kind that Simon & Schuster published (1924). [1]
Mountebank may refer to: A charlatan who sells phony medicines from a platform; Monte Bank, a card game; The Mountebanks, a comic opera by Alfred Cellier and W. S ...
Monte Bank, Mountebank, Spanish Monte and Mexican Monte, sometimes just Monte, is a Spanish gambling card game and was known in the 19th century as the national card game of Mexico. [1] It ultimately derives from basset , where the banker (dealer) pays on matching cards.
The larger Sunday crossword, which appears in The New York Times Magazine, is an icon in American culture; it is typically intended to be a "Wednesday or Thursday" in difficulty. [7] The standard daily crossword is 15 by 15 squares, while the Sunday crossword measures 21 by 21 squares.
The New York Times has used video games as part of its journalistic efforts, among the first publications to do so, [13] contributing to an increase in Internet traffic; [14] In the late 1990s and early 2000s, The New York Times began offering its newspaper online, and along with it the crossword puzzles, allowing readers to solve puzzles on their computers.
Poster for The Mountebanks. The Mountebanks is a comic opera in two acts with music by Alfred Cellier and Ivan Caryll and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert.The story concerns a magic potion that causes the person to whom it is administered to become what he or she has pretended to be.
cattalo, from cattle and buffalo [2]; donkra, from donkey and zebra (progeny of donkey stallion and zebra mare) cf. zedonk below; llamanaco, from llama and guanaco [3]; wholphin, from whale and dolphin [2]
Players use the stylus to write the letters using handwriting recognition, with keyboard optional. [1] There are 1,000 puzzles with increasing levels of difficulty over the days of the week, just like the crosswords published in the New York Times (Mondays are easiest, Saturdays are hardest, and Sundays are significantly larger, but only the difficulty of a Thursday).