![]() Oh and hey, crossword staple Teri Garr was in that, too, playing the long-suffering wife (similar to her other 1977 role in Close Encounters of the Third Kind).Īnyhoo, back to the grid. I remember seeing that in the theater with my family when it came out back in 1977 and enjoyed the chemistry between John Denver and George Burns. HOT SEAT is certainly nice, as is RAMROD, and the movie OH GOD!, which I learned was directed by Carl Reiner. The long fill isn’t especially sparkly-one wouldn’t expect it to be with that much theme material. Really impressed that our constructors managed to fit that much theme material (including two grid-spanners) in one grid, and all in the Across direction. And I amused myself by saying each first word excitedly then each second word dejectedly. I looked forward to uncovering each theme entry to see what was next. Nifty theme! I was surprised to come across a revealer so early in the solve but then realized it was only telling half the story. Each of those four entries is a familiar phrase that STARTS WELL but ENDS POORLY. We have two revealers today bookending the four main theme entries in the middle of the grid. Seth Geltman & Jeff Chen’s Wall Street Journal crossword, “Could Go Either Way”-Jim P’s review I won’t post the video here because I feel sympathy pains when I watch it, but it’s easy to find. The meme went viral in 2019 but is from a 2015 video. Tomatoes contain about 7.1 micrograms of nicotine per gram, while tobacco in a cigarette has about 10-15 milligrams per gram, which is over 1,000 times greater. TIL that other plants than tobacco contain nicotine. After the blood cells and clotting factors are removed from whole blood, serum is what remains. Some antidotes are made by injecting venom or another toxin into an animal and extracting the antibodies made from the animal’s blood. The British rapper’s birth name is Patrick Chukwuemeka Okogwu, and “Pass Out” was his debut single in 2009. Is it all right to include two names for the same thing in a theme? FRISÉE is very closely related to lettuce so I think that’s acceptable for a theme, but ROMAINE and COS are the same type of lettuce. It is said to come from the Greek island Kos. The circled letters spell COS, which is…a British term for Romaine lettuce. ROCKPORT MAINE, containing ROMAINE lettuce. BARRY GIBB of the Bee Gees, whose name contains BIBB. BUTANE LIGHTER, which hides BUTTER lettuce. The circled letters spell FRISÉE, which is otherwise known as curly endive, and is part of the chicory family, which belongs to the same taxonomic subfamily as lettuce. Lettuce see what’s going on in this grid. For example, CARTHORSE and SHORT RACE are both anagrams of the word ORCHESTRA.Hello lovelies! This week’s theme is…types of lettuce flanking the longer entries? Hmm. One common type of word puzzle is an anagram, in which the letters of the answer word are rearranged in the clue to form another word or phrase. Cryptic crosswords, which began in Britain and are much more popular there than in any other country, have clues which contain both a definition of the answer and a word puzzle involving the letters in it. These crosswords are not necessarily easy, and the one in the Saturday issue of the New York Times is considered very difficult. This is much the most common type of crossword in the US, where the grids are usually a lot bigger and contain many more words. In quick crosswords the clues are usually definitions of the answers. There are two basic types of crossword, called in Britain quick crosswords and cryptic crosswords. The clues are usually numbered and listed as across and down, according to whether the answer reads across the grid or from top to bottom. ![]() The answers are words or phrases which fit together in a patterned grid. Solving a crossword involves answering a set of clues. Most newspapers and magazines contain at least one crossword and there are often prizes for people who send in the correct solution. Today, many people in the US and in Britain regularly do crosswords, sometimes on the bus or train on their way to work. Culture crosswords crosswords Crosswords, or crossword puzzles, first appeared in the US in the early 20th century.
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