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Battle rifle: A service rifle capable of semi-automatic or fully automatic fire of a full-power rifle cartridge. Bayonet lug: An attachment point at the muzzle end of a long gun for a bayonet. Belt: An ammunition belt is a device used to retain and feed cartridges into some machine guns in place of a magazine.
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.
A 15x15 lattice-style grid is common for cryptic crosswords. A cryptic crossword is a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated, [1] as well as Ireland, the Netherlands, and in several Commonwealth nations, including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malta, New Zealand, and South Africa.
There’s been an episode told entirely through a call centre’s CCTV feed (“Cold Comfort”) and a murder-mystery shot on a fixed doorbell cam (“Mulberry Close”).
Warner Bros./New Line is no longer releasing Sony Pictures Animation’s “Fixed,” an adult animated comedy from writer/director Genndy Tartakovsky, Variety has learned. The distribution rights ...
Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do. Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do: was a failed attempt to form an organization and fixed method or system around Jeet Kune Do by Bruce Lee's widow, Linda Lee, and 19 of Lee's former students and colleagues in the late 1990s. The first summit of the "Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do Nucleus" was held from January 10–11, 1996. [ 1]
Smaller words may be easier to fit in the grid, but longer words give more clues to connecting words. [10] Care must be given to marking out words that are not explicitly placed in the grid; this occurs when one fills in a vertical sequence of horizontal words, or vice versa.
In most contexts, idée fixe refers to an obsession or a passion one fixates on. However, the term also has a pathological dimension, denoting serious psychological issues. The pathology is what is denoted in psychology and law. Idée fixe began as a parent category of obsession, [ 13] and as a preoccupation of mind the idée fixe resembles ...