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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 ...
The New York Times crossword is a daily American-style crossword puzzle published in The New York Times, syndicated to more than 300 other newspapers and journals, and released online on the newspaper's website and mobile apps as part of The New York Times Games.
The top is an earpiece listening device that works with Bond's wristwatch and the homing device in the egg. [ 72][ 73] Seiko wristwatch. Contains a homing device tracker and liquid crystal TV that works with Q Branch's surveillance cameras. [ 11][ 13][ 74][ 75] The watch is a Seiko G757 5020 Sports 100.
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. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
Luc Cohen. August 14, 2024 at 3:06 PM. By Luc Cohen. NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York man who was indicted in 2022 on felony charges of acting as an unregistered agent of Egypt's government pleaded ...
Dick Tracy. Dynamo, Thunder Agents. Jimmy Olsen. John Stone, agent of S.T.O.R.M. in Wildstorm 's comic Planetary. KGBeast in DC Universe. Lord Peter Flint in Warlord. Lorraine Broughton in The Coldest City graphic novel. Modesty Blaise. Mortadelo and Filemón Pi, Spanish secret agents of the T.I.A.
D. B. Cooper. D. B. Cooper, also known as Dan Cooper, was an unidentified man who hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, a Boeing 727 aircraft, in United States airspace on November 24, 1971. During the flight from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington, the hijacker told a flight attendant he had a bomb, demanded $200,000 in ransom ...
The U.S. House of Representatives — under the leadership of the new speaker, Rep. Kevin McCarthy — recently voted for a bill repealing planned funding to hire 87,000 new IRS agents, CNN reported.