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After the publication of the first 'Paul' Guardian crossword on 19 April 1995, Halpern would supplement his crossword pay with full-time jobs, including a reporter on the East Grinstead Courier and from 1999 as a puzzle editor for Puzzler Media Ltd. All the time John was looking to get more crosswords published, across more UK national ...
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italian: [ˈpjɛr ˈpaːolo pazoˈliːni]; 5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian poet, film director, writer, actor and playwright.He is considered one of the defining public intellectuals in 20th-century Italian history, influential both as an artist and a political figure.
James Still (1906–2001), US poet, novelist and folklorist; Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja (1828–1878), Serbian poet; Dejan Stojanović (born 1959), Serbian-US poet, writer and philosopher; Donna J. Stone (1933–1994), US poet and philanthropist; Ruth Stone (1915–2011), US poet, author and teacher; Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet (born 1968), US ...
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.
The game is played among three contestants. On a player's turn, they choose one of 8, 9, 10, or 11 words on the board, identifying it in the same way as a regular crossword puzzle (i.e., 1-across, etc.). The contestant is shown the first unrevealed letter in the word, and a clue is given.
Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic [1] [2] [3] qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings.
The larger Sunday crossword, which appears in The New York Times Magazine, is an icon in American culture; it is typically intended to be a "Wednesday or Thursday" in difficulty. [7] The standard daily crossword is 15 by 15 squares, while the Sunday crossword measures 21 by 21 squares.
William Grant Still in 1949, photographed by Carl Van Vechten. Africa is a 1930 symphonic poem in three movements by American composer William Grant Still. [1] The work, originally scored for chamber orchestra, was first performed in 1930 by French flautist Georges Barrère and, in a full orchestra version, by Howard Hanson on October 24, 1930, at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New ...