pennies (for separate coins) pence (for a sum of money)) 1 a British bronze coin worth one hundredth of a pound. coins of low value made of copper or bronze.ĭeal - noun fir or pine wood (as a building material). Some possibly unfamiliar abbreviations, people, places, words and expressions used in today's puzzleĬopper - noun 2 Brit. If today's puzzle were a hole on a golf course, I think it would be a moderately easy straightaway par four, with very few hazards to catch one's ball. This puzzle was originally published Tuesday, Octoin The Daily Telegraph Lake) Ricki Lake: American actress and television talk show hostĢ0d R(EVIL)ED - EVIL (like Satan) contained in (dressed in) REDĢ2d BALLING~ - sounds like (out loud) BAWLING (crying)Ģ6d _P|HAT_ - hidden in (selection of) toP HATs "( )" letters inserted "_" letters deletedġa * - anagram (changing) of GREAT SIGHTġ6d SYBARITE* - anagram (weird) of BESTIARYġ8d T(RICKI)EST - TEST (exam) containing (catches) RICKI (Ms. "*" anagram "~" sounds like "<" letters reversed "CD" Cryptic Definition "DD" Double Definition These, too may have been innovations given as explanations to women who felt insulted by the word." This spelling is said by some to be an acronym, but various versions are given: "pretty hot and tasty," or "pretty hips and thighs" among them.
The spelling is attested as far back as 1678, as an erroneous form of fat (a classical over-correction see -ph-). The Online Etymology Dictionary has the following to say about the word: "hip-hop slang, "great, excellent," 1992, originating perhaps in the late 1980s and meaning at first "sexiness in a woman." The word itself is presumably a variant of fat (q.v.) in one of its slang senses, with the kind of off-beat spelling preferred in street slang (cf. Phat is hip-hop slang denoting excellence. However, I then realized that TIME can mean hour, as in the query "What time is it?" which is equivalent to asking "What is the hour?". My first thought was that hour is strictly only an example of TIME (as a duration), and therefore that the clue might have been better worded as "Taking perhaps an hour, change cockpit instrument". Phat - hip-hop slang meaning great, excellent, first-rate, terrific, superbġ7a Taking hour, change cockpit instrument (9) a spinning motion imparted to a ball, esp. Some possibly unfamiliar abbreviations, people, places, words and expressions used in today's puzzle (including ones that may be new to visitors from outside North America)Įnglish - 6. While it may sound like there is more than one right answer in today's puzzle by Cox and Rathvon, you will see that there is really only one.
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