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Letters 16 and 17 form a two-letter word ending in P. Since this has to be UP, letter 16 is a U, which can be filled into the appropriate clue answer in the list of clues. Likewise, a three-letter word starting with A could be and, any, all, or even a proper name like Ann. One might need more clue answers before daring to guess which it could be.
A host of legendary creatures, animals, and mythic humanoids occur in ancient Greek mythology.Anything related to mythology is mythological. A mythological creature (also mythical or fictional entity) is a type of fictional entity, typically a hybrid, that has not been proven and that is described in folklore (including myths and legends), but may be featured in historical accounts before ...
Roman numerals: for example the word "six" in the clue might be used to indicate the letters VI; The name of a chemical element may be used to signify its symbol; e.g., W for tungsten; The days of the week; e.g., TH for Thursday; Country codes; e.g., "Switzerland" can indicate the letters CH; ICAO spelling alphabet: where Mike signifies M and ...
However, the mythographers Apollodorus (citing Hesiod as his source) and Hyginus both make the Chimera the offspring of Echidna and Typhon. [5] Hesiod also has the Sphinx and the Nemean lion as the offspring of Orthus , and another ambiguous "she", often understood as probably referring to the Chimera, although possibly instead to Echidna, or ...
Hakutaku – talking beast which handed down knowledge on harmful spirits; Hākuturi – nature guardian; Half-elf – human-elf hybrid; Haltija – spirit that protects a specific place; Hamadryad – oak tree nymph; Hamingja (Scandinavian) – personal protection spirit
[5] According to Plutarch , the Egyptian queen Cleopatra , in preparing for her own suicide, tested various deadly poisons on condemned people and concluded that the bite of the asp (from the Greek word aspis, usually meaning an Egyptian cobra in Ptolemaic Egypt, and not the European asp ) was the least terrible way to die; the venom brought ...
Baroque Medusa (A gorgon) combined beauty and horror: Medusa, after 1590, by Caravaggio.. Gaasyendietha – Dragon; Gagana – Iron-beaked bird with copper talons; Gaki – Ghosts of especially greedy people
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. 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 ...