First: about cryptic crosswords. A recentGuardiancryptic crossword included this clue: ‘Person catching extremists in Ferrari with tank. (9)’ (See it in contexthere.) The successful solver pays scant attention to its literal meaning, and instead deconstructs it, after any number of false star...
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The German language has a beautiful expression, Aha-Erlebnis, to describe the moment when you solve a problem or you get a sudden insight, like finding the answer to a crossword clue or understanding a phrase in a new language. Emil and I wish the readers ofPhase Shape.smany real live ...
Such a broad spectrum of retailing lends weight to the defendants’ assertion that Lockwood claims control of all e-commerce. (PanIP’s full name, Pangea Intellectual Properties, might also be a clue here. “Pangea” is Greek for “all of the Earth.”) Lockwood says his patents apply only...
Fill in the missing letters of the sport words Cut and paste the name of the sports Unscramble the letters to for the sports word – a picture clue is provided Alphabetical Order – place the names of the sports in order from A to Z ...
(Can you “Throw in the Vowel?”) It offers the thrill of creating meaning itself — turning arbitrary patterns into words. In one puzzle, the “clue box” even has five S’s! For the last year I’ve been telling Jeffrey that he may have invented the world’s next, great word game...
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Even ambivalent letters which attempt to signal concerns about candidates do so obscured behind euphemism and buzzword that is difficult to decode unambiguously. (Here is a tongue-in-cheek but sadly all-too-true, guide to decoding letters of reference, although not specific to medical aspirants.)...
Look at the letters in the words of this sentence, for example. Why are they shaped the way that they are? Why did we come up with As, Ms and Zs and the other characters of the alphabet? And is there any underlying similarity between the many kinds of alphabet used on the planet?