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Last Night's Crossword Clue

Deborah P Kidd

Follow me down wormholes about words, inspired by my omnibus of NY Times Sunday Crossword puzzles.

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One who consumes a ritual meal to absolve the souls of the dead (8)

Fifteen centuries ago, in pious villages of England and Scotland, death demanded a certain service. Like the clients it served, practice of this profession has passed on, too. But back then, it survived among outcasts: the lost souls whose...

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Bump on a log (5)

This word starts with a silent first letter. But at the dawn of its use, people pronounced it. They used to sound out other silent consonants that start common words, like knit or knob, knot or knuckle. (A fact I never ka-new.)

Those silen...

10 months ago
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Blueberry-picking girl of children’s literature (3)

“Kuplink-kuplank-kuplunk”

Ripe berries hit the bottom of a tin pail. But they don’t stay long. A little girl swipes the harvest as soon as her mother collects it. Snacking and straggling, she falls behind. At a bush full of berries, she st...

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Ones committing a party foul… or the images depicted in this puzzle’s grid (13)

A starburst; a cross crossed by an X; a note for future reference: I present the multi-tasking asterisk.

In a crossword titled “Star Signs,” the asterisk spanned space and time, from its origins in the drawings of Ice Age caves* to thirtee...

a year ago
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Beethoven's Third (6)

This symphony was a game-changer, grander and more spectacular than any symphony before it. Beethoven also said it was his favorite. “It’s confessional, even confrontational,” according to PBS.

I have attended my share of symphonies, and m...

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