The Times crossword puzzle is a British daily cryptic crossword popularised by its inclusion in the London newspaper The Times and inspired by similarly themed puzzles published in The New York Tribune since 1925. It is also one of the most widely distributed crosswords globally today.
The first crossword puzzle ever to appear in a nationally distributed newspaper was “Word-Cross”, which ran in the New York Sunday World on November 10, 1924. Will Weng, who was then the puzzles editor at the “New York Tribune”, had been approached by Walter Murphy, the editor of the Sunday supplement, with an idea for a new feature that would attract more readers to his section on Sundays; he wanted something like a combination of code and chess problems and believed.
In our website you will find all Mirror Quiz Crossword November 3 2021 Answers. Mirror Quiz is one the many crosswords that are released daily which have different clues. Each day The Mirror releases 3 more crosswords which are Classic, Cryptic and Quick.
ACROSS
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The —, 1960 comedy-drama film starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine
APARTMENT
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& 17A 1947 film in a comedy series starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope (4,2,3)
ROAD
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Needlework technique in which trimming of one material is sewn on to a larger piece
APPLIQUE
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Department of France whose capital is Poitiers
VIENNE
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Species of marten highly valued for its fur
SABLE
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Frederic —, author of 1976 novel The Glittering Prizes
RAPHAEL
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Metallic element; symbol Sn
TIN
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Capital of Cyprus
NICOSIA
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See 8 Across
TORIO
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Muse of astronomy in Greek mythology
URANIA
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Dennis —, actor who played Gerry Standing in BBC TV series New Tricks
WATERMAN
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Tourist city in NE Hungary at the centre of a wine-producing region
EGER
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Fried or grilled German pork sausage
BRATWURST
DOWN
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Town in NW Kent on the River Thames opposite Tilbury
GRAVESEND
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Large African antelope with long curved ridged horns
WATERBUCK
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Michael —, actor who played Prince Michael of Moldavia in US soap Dynasty
PRAED
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1984 comedy-crime film starring Harry Dean Stanton and Emilio Estevez
REPOMAN
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River in Germany that flows through Wurzburg to the Rhine
MAIN
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Island nation in the South Pacific Ocean whose capital is Alofi
NIUE
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1814 novel by Maria Edgeworth
PATRONAGE
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Queen of Egypt from 51-30 BC
CLEOPATRA
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Long, narrow inlet of the sea coast found especially in SW Ireland and NW Spain
RIA
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Game bird of Central and South America related to the ratites
TINAMOU
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Capital of Tunisia
TUNIS
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John Dickson —, author of 1935 mystery novel The Hollow Man
CARR
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1995 crime film starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro
HEAT
The crossword-puzzle fad that followed eventually led to the creation of many similar puzzles in other newspapers, including some with distinctly different rules from the “New York Times”.
By 1930, Weng felt that the puzzle was growing stale. He wanted to shake things up a bit by adding an entire new level of challenge on top of what had been there before.
Weng called upon his friend Margaret Farrar (1904–1974) to help him edit and construct a brand-new cryptic crossword which would appear for the first time on Sunday January 2, 1932. The puzzle required entrants not only to fill in standard synonym squares but also to answer clues which required them to solve a second level.