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cryptograph crosswords, in which a number corresponds to a letter; other types of puzzles based on a grid but unrelated to crosswords in the strict sense of the term, such as la Persiana (literally "the persian blind") in which the solver has to discover the key of the puzzle based on the first (sometimes second) syllabe of the definitions;
Play the USA TODAY Crossword Puzzle.-Los Angeles Times crossword-Today’s crossword (McMeel)-Daily Commuter crossword-SUDOKU. Play the USA TODAY Sudoku Game. JUMBLE. Jumbles: PAUSE EXERT BOGGLE ...
Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister is a three-volume roman à clef by Aphra Behn playing with events of the Monmouth Rebellion and exploring the genre of the epistolary novel. The first volume, published in 1684, lays some claim to be the first English novel. Some scholars claim that the attribution to Behn remains in dispute.
Alimash: Calormene nobleman, cousin of Aravis ; Anradin Tarkaan: Calormene nobleman, former owner of Bree, who wants to buy Shasta ; Aravis Tarkheena: the daughter of a Calormene nobleman; she flees when her stepmother attempts to marry her to Ahoshta. She escapes from Calormen with Shasta, and becomes Queen of Archenland after marrying him.
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 and/or end with vowels, abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual combinations of ...
Bardolph (fict) is a follower of Sir John Falstaff in Henry IV, Part 1 [5] and Henry IV, Part 2. In The Merry Wives of Windsor he becomes a drawer for the Host of the Garter. He is hanged for stealing a pax in Henry V. [4] Lord Bardolph is a nobleman, one of the Percy faction, in Henry IV, Part 2.
Crossword-like puzzles, for example Double Diamond Puzzles, appeared in the magazine St. Nicholas, published since 1873. [32] Another crossword puzzle appeared on September 14, 1890, in the Italian magazine Il Secolo Illustrato della Domenica. It was designed by Giuseppe Airoldi and titled "Per passare il tempo" ("To pass the time"). Airoldi's ...
Hawk, Sir Mulberry is a lecherous, parasitic nobleman in Nicholas Nickleby. Heep, Mrs Widowed mother of Uriah Heep in David Copperfield, "dead image of Uriah, only short". She is as "'umble" as her son, whom she dotes on. Heep, Uriah A hypocritical clerk of Mr Wickfield's who is continually citing his humility. He deviously plots to ruin ...