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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.
A 15x15 lattice-style grid is common for cryptic crosswords. A cryptic crossword is a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated, [1] as well as Ireland, the Netherlands, and in several Commonwealth nations, including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malta, New Zealand, and South Africa.
I got ill, properly ill and was confined to hotel quarters." [2] Speaking of the influence that Iggy Pop's 1977 song "The Passenger" had on "Lost Weekend", Cole recalled in 2010, "It just went that way in rehearsal and while we were aware that the rhythm part was the same, the chords and everything else was different, so we weren't bothered ...
Confinement may refer to: . With respect to humans: An old-fashioned or archaic synonym for childbirth; Postpartum confinement (or postnatal confinement), a system of recovery after childbirth, involving rest and special foods
It refers to a situation in which for a given crime (usually a murder), there is a quickly established, limited number of suspects, each with credible means, motive, and opportunity. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In other words, it is known that the criminal is one of the people present at or nearby the scene, and the crime could not have been ...
Original bed inside solitary confinement cell in Franklin County Jail, Pennsylvania. In the United States penal system, upwards of 20 percent of state and federal prison inmates and 18 percent of local jail inmates are kept in solitary confinement or another form of restrictive housing at some point during their imprisonment. [1]
Wolfe likes to solve the crossword puzzle of British newspapers in preference to those of American papers, and hates to be interrupted while so engaged. [n] Wolfe is very particular in his choice of words. He is a prescriptivist who hates to hear language being misused according to his lights, often chastising people who do so.
In those days it was a small rural village. Miss Lamburn was a delightful unassuming young woman and I used to play with her young nephew Tommy. He used to get up to all sorts of tricks and he was always presumed to be the inspiration for William by all of us. Having contracted polio she was severely crippled and confined to a wheelchair.