(1) He would do the Telegraph crossword and, to be fair, would make intelligent conversation but he was a bit racist.
(2) Fittingly, I won this in a crossword competition in 2003.
(3) The solution would appear (sometimes the novel felt like a vast crossword puzzle) through a combination of experiment, meditation and lateral thought: I had to step firmly away from the French and face a contrary direction – another track entirely.
(4) For my 80th birthday last year, my family commissioned a killer-grade personal crossword – my life in a crossword.
(5) I am told that actors and authors and scientists know that they have it made when their names are required as solutions in a Times crossword puzzle.
(6) "And then it's like doing a really difficult crossword.
(7) Blank e blank e blank e blank t. I do crosswords all the time, that's how I learned English.
(8) There's one clue left on the Times crossword and he can't get it.
(9) That a celebrity might command a quarter of a page photo is not particularly unusual – but this was page 46 and I'd already whizzed over the business pages and the TV listings and done the crossword.
(10) Learned, erudite, eloquent, witty and self-effacing about his sharp-minded crossword-setting skill – he was all of those and more.
(11) The Sunday crossword puzzle had the following cue for 4 down: "Places for day-care" (spelled, with the purist's uncertainty, with a hyphen).
(12) Illustration by David Gibson The Guardian has lost a terrific crossword setter but, with the passing of John Graham, Somersham has lost a gentleman who was truly a gentle man ( Araucaria, Obituaries , 27 November).
(13) He was very clever and also enormously competent; he could make things, fix things, solve problems, name trees and plants and insects and birds, grow vegetables, sing in tune, do cryptic crosswords, read maps, sail boats, tie knots, paint and draw, play chess.
(14) This crossword puzzle serves as a motivational tool for staff and is indicative of the broad knowledge base that transplant nurses must possess.
(15) Once, I took my parents to Cornwall for a break and was doing the Guardian crossword with my dad.
(16) At the Statesman, Wheen didn't just proof the crossword.
(17) Nicholas Edward Gough Swindon, Wiltshire • I will always remember the frisson of excitement, on turning to the crossword, to find the name of Araucaria as the compiler, and especially so if it were a themed or alphabetical challenge.
(18) She traces the wordplay back to her father, Adrian Bell, a farmer turned local newspaper columnist, and the first compiler of the Times cryptic crossword.
(19) To sports fans Qatar's name has become more than a crossword curiosity, most famous as host of the 2022 World Cup, to Londoners as the money behind the Shard skyscraper, and to cash-strapped governments as the home of a sovereign wealth fund with a voracious appetite for diverse global investments.
(20) Her listed interests include learning to play the saxophone, supporting Manchester United, and doing cryptic crosswords.
Grid
Definition:
(n.) A grating of thin parallel bars, similar to a gridiron.
Example Sentences:
(1) The benefit of focal and grid-laser photocoagulation in reducing the risk of visual loss from diabetic macular edema has been established.
(2) The area of mammographically visualized breast tissue before and after augmentation mammoplasty was measured using a transparent grid.
(3) Some of the parallel fibers, which display presynaptic vesicular grids, established synaptic contact with stellate cells and the dendritic spines of the few Purkinje cells that survived the treatment.
(4) Xenophon’s letter says if State Grid is also allowed to own a huge stake in Ausgrid it raises serious questions about market dominance.
(5) Quantitative cell types were determined by a grid intersection counting technique at x 1000.
(6) The simple BASIC program described in this paper generates a list of random grid-square numbers, which are sequentially analyzed.
(7) Grid reference: 54.5763, -2.8734 Photograph: www.wildswimming.com Lower Ddwli Falls, Waterfall Woods, Brecon Beacons In the south-west hills of the Brecon Beacons , near Ystradfellte, you'll find some of the most amazing waterfall plunge pools in Britain.
(8) Although it is the world's biggest CO2 emitter and notorious for building the equivalent of a 400MW coal-fired power station every three days, it is also erecting 36 wind turbines a day and building a robust new electricity grid to send this power thousands of miles across the country from the deserts of the west to the cities of the east.
(9) In the international categories, a Nicaraguan company won the energy enterprise award for installing more than 400 kilowatt peak (kWp) of solar photovoltaic energy, often in rural areas without a national grid connection.
(10) Possibilities of differentiation between the two populations of lymphocytes are furthermore obtained by the grid electron microscopy and the important functional tests of the transformation of lymphocytes by means of unspecific and specific stimulants.
(11) Examinations of 202 patients (337 eyes) with different forms of macular dystrophies, such as idiopathic flat detachment of the retina in the macular area, central sclerotic dystrophy of the retina, tapetoretinal macular degeneration, outcome of local inflammation of pigmented epithelium, post-traumatic central chorioretinitis, etc., allowed to receive data confirming high information value of a method based on the phenomenon of dynamic scotoma of disadaptation as compared with examinations on the Amsler's grid and campimetry.
(12) Detailed analysis of microsphere distribution in a cubic centimeter of normal liver and the calculation of dose to a 3-dimensional fine grid has shown that the radiation distribution created by the finite size and distribution of the microspheres results in an highly heterogeneous dose pattern.
(13) The grids are then placed in an easy-to-make plastic chamber so that the formvar does not get ruptured during drying.
(14) The MPB device showed better SNRs by a factor of 1.25 compared to the grid and air gap which were approximately equal to each other.
(15) The Grid confirmed on Friday morning that it had secured the 45 gigawatts (GW) of back-up power generation it wants to meet peak periods of electricity demand starting in 2019.
(16) The positive and negative conditioned stimuli were tones of different frequency, and the unconditioned stimulus (UCS) was shock delivered through the grid floor of a rotating-wheel conditioning apparatus.
(17) In this study, RBCs from bluetongue (BLU) virus-infected sheep were adsorbed directly onto Formvar-coated, gold electron microscope grids.
(18) A dermoviability index was calculated for each grid.
(19) China committed for the first time to stop emissions from growing by 2030 and to get 20% of its power from non-fossil fuel sources – about the equivalent of two-thirds of the entire US electrical grid.
(20) The grid was then stained with a small drop of phosphotungstate and observed electron microscopically.