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Printer's Devilry. A barred grid, the kind used by Ximenes and Azed in their puzzles. A Printer's Devilry is a form of cryptic crossword puzzle, first invented by Afrit ( Alistair Ferguson Ritchie) in 1937. A Printer's Devilry puzzle does not follow the standard Ximenean rules of crossword setting, since the clues do not define the answers. [ 1]
The Mad Dogs hired Pepper Rodgers as their first head coach. Rodgers was familiar to Memphis pro football fans as he was the head coach of one of the city's previous pro football team, the Memphis Showboats of the USFL; the Mad Dogs had also hired Steve Erhart, the Showboats' general manager, in the same capacity.
James Lowndes Randall, 1901 portrait from A History of the Meynell Hounds and Country, 1780-1901. James Lowndes Randall (1855–1932) was an English investor in the development of the Gallatin Valley in Montana during the 1880s. In later life he adopted the habits of a country gentleman, and became known for his writings on fox-hunting .
Augustin Nadal. The abbé Augustin Nadal (1659 – 7 August 1741) was the author of plays, through the failure of which he became the butt of a withering public reply from Voltaire that has rendered the abbé immortal. He was born in Poitiers.
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The remark was a clear reference to the United States' support of Ukraine against Russia. Washington has sent tens of billions of dollars of military aid to Kyiv in an attempt to help Ukrainian ...
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 treatment (tx) in the clue alerts solvers that the answer will be an abbreviation. UWU (39D: Kawaii emoticon) "Kawaii" is a word borrowed from Japanese culture that is used to ...