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Circa – C; Circle – O (the letter O is a circle) City – NY , LA (Los Angeles), or EC (postcode for City of London) Closed - TO (like a door) Club – Y ; Coin – P , D (from the Latin denarius) or C – D or C would usually have "old" or "American" as well as "coin". College – C; Cold – C; Colonel – COL; Colt – C; Commercial – AD
Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start or end with vowels (or both), abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual ...
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 ...
B.I.C. – Bibas [for Vivas] In Christo ("May you Live In Christ") B.M.F. – Bene Merenti Fecit ("He erected this to the Well-Deserving") B.Q. – Bene Quiescat ("May he [or she] Rest Well") B.A. – Baccalaureus Artium ("Bachelor of Arts") B. BB. – Beatus, Beati ("Blessed") B.C. – Before Christ
The early Christian Alexandrian scholar Origen (c. 184 – c. 253 AD) used it to indicate differences between different versions of the Old Testament in his Hexapla. [12] [15] [18] Epiphanius of Salamis (c. 310–320 – 403) used both a horizontal slash or hook (with or without dots) and an upright and slightly slanting dagger to represent an ...
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.
Brendan Emmett Quigley (born 1974) [1] is an American crossword constructor. He has been described as a "crossword wunderkind". [2] His work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, and The Onion.
Common chord in the keys of G, D, and A major; as well as E, B, and F ♯ minor.. A common chord, in the theory of harmony, is a chord that is diatonic to more than one key or, in other words, is common to (shared by) two keys. [1]