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DROPPING HINTS: The word HINT is seen DROPPING in each vertical theme answer: HIGH INTENSITY, CRASH INTO ME, and CATCH IN THE ACT. The title of today's puzzle is DROPPING a HINT that the theme is ...
The other example given in the clue – fans' romantic pairings – refers to SHIPS in the sense of relationships fans would like to see between characters. Fan fiction is often produced about ...
Comments from Today’s Crossword Constructor. Wendy: Thanks to Sally, as always, for taking the time to solve, examine and write about the puzzle. Amanda was wonderful to work with, as always ...
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.
The abbreviation of New Jersey (NJ) in the clue alerts solvers that the answer will be an abbreviation. ... Our crossword-friend OREO is starting off 2025 with an appearance in the first puzzle of ...
Cryptic crossword clues consist typically of a definition and some type of word play. Cryptic crossword clues need to be viewed two ways. One is a surface reading and one a hidden meaning. [28] The surface reading is the basic reading of the clue to look for key words and how those words are constructed in the clue. The second way is the hidden ...
As a result, war-related words including those codenames got into the crosswords; Dawe said later that at the time he did not know that these words were military codewords. On 18 August 1942, a day before the Dieppe raid , 'Dieppe' appeared as an answer in The Daily Telegraph crossword (set on 17 August 1942) (clued "French port"), causing a ...
What I Learned from Today’s Puzzle. KAREN (28A: Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer ___ O) Yeah Yeah Yeahs is an indie rock band whose member are KAREN O (vocals and piano), Nick Zenner (guitar and keyboard ...