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On 18 August 1942, a day before the Dieppe raid, 'Dieppe' appeared as an answer in The Daily Telegraph crossword (set on 17 August 1942) (clued "French port"), causing a security alarm. The War Office suspected that the crossword had been used to pass intelligence to the enemy and called upon Lord Tweedsmuir, then a senior intelligence officer ...
North by Northwest is a 1959 American spy thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason. [3] The screenplay was by Ernest Lehman, who wanted to write "the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures".
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
Scientists studying a family plagued by early-in-life Alzheimer’s found some carry a genetic oddity that delays their initial symptoms by five years. The finding points to novel ways of fighting ...
The DIY slowdown at Lowe’s mirrors that of rival Home Depot, which slashed its sales guidance after weakened second-quarter sales. It now expects comparable sales to fall 3% to 4% this year, a ...
Hero's Quest I: So You Want to be a Hero; Heroes of the Lance; HeroQuest; HeroQuest - Return of the Witch Lord (expansion) Hex; High Steel; Highway Patrol 2; Hill Street Blues; Hillsfar 1.0; Hippo Backgammon; Hiscon Rescue; Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (The) HKM - Human Killing Machine; Hlava Kasandry; HMS Cobra; Hockey Pista; Hole in One ...
Main cast members (from left to right) Mitch Pileggi, Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny, and William B. Davis at the 2016 Chicago Wizard World The X-Files is an American science fiction television series first broadcast in September 1993 and followed by two feature films: The X-Files and The X-Files: I Want to Believe. The characters defined the overarching mythology of the series. They ...
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, while the black squares are used to ...