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Grace Brewster Hopper ( née Murray; December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. [ 1] She was a pioneer of computer programming. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and used this theory to develop the FLOW-MATIC ...
Any time a clue ends in a question mark, the answer is a play on words (e.g., [Fitness center?] for CORE). [6] Occasionally, themed puzzles will require certain squares to be filled in with a symbol, multiple letters, or a word, rather than one letter (so-called "rebus" puzzles). This symbol/letters/word will be repeated in each themed entry.
Roman numerals: for example the word "six" in the clue might be used to indicate the letters VI; The name of a chemical element may be used to signify its symbol; e.g., W for tungsten; The days of the week; e.g., TH for Thursday; Country codes; e.g., "Switzerland" can indicate the letters CH; ICAO spelling alphabet: where Mike signifies M and ...
Comments from Today’s Crossword Constructor. Matt: Some folks find them a little old-fashioned, but I love a good letter-pattern theme. Favorite clue here is 51-A, which I sense Sally will ...
The programme was presented by Richard Whiteley for 23 years until his death in June 2005. It was then presented by Des Lynam from October 2005 until December 2006, Des O'Connor from January 2007 until December 2008, Jeff Stelling from January 2009 until December 2011 and Nick Hewer from January 2012 until June 2021, with Colin Murray standing in for Nick Hewer during part of the COVID-19 ...
An American-style crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter ...
Printer's Devilry. 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] Instead, each clue consists of a sentence from which a string of ...
August 22, 2024 at 2:06 PM. Cole Hocker has stated he is a racer, not a pacer. It played out that way 16 days after he won a gold medal at the Olympic Games. In a Paris rematch, Norway’s Jakob ...