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Alcestis and Admetus ( Greek) Alcyone and Ceyx ( Greek) Anto and Laura ( Roman) Apollo and Daphne ( Greek) Apollo and Hyacinth ( Greek) Ares / Mars and Aphrodite / Venus ( Greek) - ( Roman) Arjuna and Draupadi ( Hindu) Atalanta and Hippomenes / Melanion ( Greek) Balarama and Revati ( Hindu)
Playfair cipher. The Playfair cipher uses a 5×5 grid of letters, and encrypts a message by breaking the text into pairs of letters and swapping them according to their positions in a rectangle within that grid: "HI" becomes "BM". The Playfair cipher or Playfair square or Wheatstone–Playfair cipher is a manual symmetric encryption technique ...
The clues are "self-checking." This is in contrast to non-cryptic crossword clues which often have several possible answers and force the solver to use the crossing letters to distinguish which was intended. Here is an example (taken from The Guardian crossword of 6 August 2002, set by "Shed"). 15D Very sad unfinished story about rising smoke (8)
This is a list of British game shows.A game show is a type of radio, television, or internet programming genre in which contestants, television personalities or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles usually for money and/or prizes.
Notes References A Across the line A shot which is played with the bat moving lateral to the direction of motion of the ball. Used when the batter is aiming square or behind square, but requires excellent timing. Considered risky, as mistiming the shot can result in a leading edge, being strangled, or missing the ball entirely and being out bowled or leg before wicket. Action See bowling ...
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.
act. To make a play (check, bet, call, raise, or fold) at the required time, compare to in turn. acting out of turn. A player in poker that either announces their actions or physically plays before their turn (checks, folds etc.). Sometimes players act out of turn intentionally to get a read out of other players.
The player makes a ribbon-shaped flow of air with his lips (421.1), or his breath is directed through a duct against an edge (421.2). Flute; 421.1 Flutes without duct - The player himself creates a ribbon-shaped stream of air with his lips. 421.11 End-blown flutes - The player blows against the sharp rim at the upper open end of a tube.