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Trans-O-Grams were often themed puzzles, with clues related to the quote. The name Duo-Crostic was used by the Los Angeles Times for puzzles by Barry Tunick and Sylvia Bursztyn. Charles Preston created Quote-Acrostics for The Washington Post. Charles Duerr, who died in 1999, authored many "Dur-acrostic" books and was a contributor of acrostics ...
Parody of "Piano Man" by Billy Joel. Describes the events of the 2002 film Spider-Man. "One of Those Days" Polka Party! (1986) Original "One More Minute" Dare to Be Stupid (1985) "Weird Al" Yankovic's Greatest Hits (1988) The Best of Yankovic (1992) Permanent Record: Al in the Box (1994) The Essential "Weird Al" Yankovic (2009)
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]
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 letter, while the black squares are used to ...
Hard Times: For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirises the social and economic conditions of the era.
The puzzle follows a number of conventions, both for tradition's sake and to aid solvers in completing the crossword: Nearly all the Times crossword grids have rotational symmetry: they can be rotated 180 degrees and remain identical. Rarely, puzzles with only vertical or horizontal symmetry can be found; yet rarer are asymmetrical puzzles ...
A parody of Leonardo Da Vinci's famous fresco "The Last Supper" featuring drag queens in the Olympic opening ceremony in Paris has sparked fury among the Catholic Church and far-right politicians ...
Clothes don't make the man; Clothes make the man; Coffee and love taste best when hot. Ethiopian proverb; Cold hands, warm heart; Comparisons are odious; Count your blessings; Courage is the measure of a Man, Beauty is the measure of a Woman; Cowards may die many times before their death; Crime does not pay; Cream rises; Criss-cross, applesauce