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Answer to an old riddle alluded to by the starts of 17-, 32-, 42- and 64-Across
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newspaper
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context countable English) A publication, usually published daily or weekly and usually printed on cheap, low-quality paper, containing news and other articles. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To cover with newspaper. 2 (context intransitive transitive ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a newspaper article ▪ He writes newspaper articles in the Guardian. a newspaper column ▪ He’s the writer of a weekly newspaper column. a newspaper competition (= organized by and advertised in a newspaper ) ▪ I entered ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, though the thing itself is older (see gazette ); from news (n.) + paper (n.).\n\n[T]he newspaper that drops on your doorstep is a partial, hasty, incomplete, inevitably somewhat flawed and inaccurate rendering of some of the things we have heard ...
Usage examples of newspaper.
From his organization, the conglomerate orchestrated the printing and distribution of one hundred seventy-six newspapers, twelve magazines, seventeen on-line research companies and united two hundred seven affiliate newsrooms across the U.
Whether or not she realized it, she was an invaluable source of information, Ambrose thought, turning a page of the newspaper.
The campaign that began so placidly with six appealing serious candidates will likely degenerate into a snarling sea of invective featuring offscreen announcers with ominous voices, grainy photographs and blown-up, red-circled, out-of-context newspaper clips.
When he opened the connecting door, through which he had arrived, Astoria looked up from her newspaper.
What if there were to be an article in the newspapers reporting that an apprentice from Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors had been arrested by the police in connection with some racket?
They spent glorious hours together in doss-houses and in lodgings beautified by their love, in newspaper offices, in meeting-halls and in lecture-halls.
How I envied those bricks wrapped in newspaper, those storehouses and bestowers of warmth!
Alan guessed that Bonner had given the boy a ticket with explicit instructions in the newspaper he had dropped on the cafe table, probably for a flight that would board immediately so that any pursuers would be blocked-as Alan was--by the complexity of the terminal.
By departmental practice, information concerning murder, suicide, or rape cases is not released to the newspapers until Bouvier has finished his examination and the next of kin are informed.
Meanwhile Severn, with old newspapers, candle ends, twigs, branchlets, tried to make a fire in the small grate.
Sir Alfred had the newspaper propped in front of him in hopes of avoiding the morning brangling between his children and the carping demands of his wife.
According to the newspaper, the police defined the robber as the same masked man who had entered a brokerage office two days ago and forced the owner to hand over a batch of securities that were in his desk drawer.
The New York newspaper columnist Heywood Broun spoke for urban America.
Father got up and walked out after that great battle scene when that ghostly spectre appeared standing there brooding over those two corpses in the Bloody Lane that was supposed to be Grandfather and when I said maybe that was why Father was upset with me for exploiting the family and Grandfather if he thought I wrote the script like it said in the newspaper and I asked him to read my last act he said he.
There were a newspaper man--the editor of a fashionable journal--and a middle-aged man of letters, playwright, critic, humourist, a man whose society was in demand everywhere, and who said sharp things with the most supreme good-nature.