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Fast Facts
Issue date: 11/21/08 Section: Extra! The New York Times dismissed crossword puzzles in 1924 as being "temporary madness" and a "primitive sort of mental exercise."
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CROSSWORD ANSWERS
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Nancy Banks-Smith on last night's TV: Timeshift: How to Solve a Cryptic Crossword
You may wish I was writing about something else: nevertheless, you can only really write about what you love, so it's Timeshift: How to Solve a Cryptic Crossword (BBC4). It was enchanting to discover that the first setter of the Times cryptic crossword, its only begetter and originator, was Martin Bell's father. Adrian Bell, an otherworldly figure, said: "I was sitting in the country ...
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Deccan Herald » Crossword
1 The swimmer’s silver or bronze (5) 6 People with land (5) 9 The chap grew old but could still run! (7) 10 Only one place is perfect (5) 11 It’s smart to be exceptionally fit in New York (5) 12 It grows on a rugged cape to the north (5) 13 “Sir” beat Ron to a pulp! (7) 15 The little woman (3) 17 Unsealed letters from Schopenhauer (4) 18 A good month, note, with the national theatre (6) 19 City ...
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Carrollton Woman Wins $75K In Georgia Lottery
CARROLL COUNTY, Ga. -- A Carrollton woman has spelled her way to a $75,000 Georgia Lottery win. Connie Clark, 47, played the crossword-themed instant game $75,000 Cashword and won a top prize.
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Deccan Herald » Crossword
ACROSS: 1, Crocus 7, Covenant 8, Saga 10, Prison 11, Bobbin 14, Fed 16, Saint 17, Sits 19, Donor 21, Feral 22, Sleep 23, More 26, Cocoa 28, Rid 29, Amount 30, Rising 31, Omen 32, Decrepit 33, Assume.
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Five ways to keep Alzheimer's away
Blanche Danick may be 86 years old, but she's pretty hip. She keeps up with all the latest health news, and a while back, she called her daughter wanting to know whether she should start taking the herb ginkgo biloba. She'd heard it might stave off Alzheimer's disease.
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Mussina calls it a career after first 20-win year
Mike Mussina took a secret to the ballpark every day this season. Maybe that's why he was so successful on the mound, so jovial in the clubhouse.
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Were the World Mine (2008)
Tanner Cohen, left, and Nathaniel David Becker in “Were the World Mine,” inspired by “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
Model Karolina Kurkova world's sexiest woman: report
Lingerie model Karolina Kurkova has been voted the world's sexiest woman by E! entertainment television, beating sultry actresses Angelina Jolie and Scarlett Johansson for the honor.
NATO ready to help Africa, but is not world's policeman: chief
NATO is ready to strengthen its ties with Africa, but Africa should come up with solutions to its problems and not expect NATO to police the world, its secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Thursday.
World stocks down amid fears of deep recession
World stocks fell sharply Thursday as fears of a deep global recession gripped markets and sent oil prices below $50 a barrel to levels not seen in more than three years.
World Bank Arm Backs Small Palm Growers on Climate (Update1)
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- The International Finance Corp. , the World Bank's investment arm, said it will help lenders in Indonesia to finance small-scale palm oil growers to encourage so-called sustainable practices and forestall climate change.
Google to shut down virtual world Lively at year-end
The Internet giant, which launched the site less than five months ago, says it wants to focus on its core search business. Not all Google Inc. endeavors turn into gold. Lively, a virtual world the Internet giant launched less than five months ago, will be shut down at the end of the year so Google can focus on its bread-and-butter search business.
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