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 October 29 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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Fairy in the J M Barrie play Peter Pan
TINKERBELL
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1928 Virginia Woolf novel whose hero metamorphoses into a woman
ORLANDO
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Young unfledged pigeon
SQUAB
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John —, theologian who established the Presbyterian Church of Scotland in 1560
KNOX
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Tom —, actor who starred as Frank Ross in 1978 ITV drama series Out
BELL
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Chinese dynasty interrupted by Xin ruler Wang Mang that ruled from 206 BC until AD 220
HAN
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Market town in Shropshire near the border with Wales that houses a castle
LUDLOW
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Pier —, Sardinia-born actress whose roles included Anna Curtis in 1960 film drama The Angry Silence
ANGELI
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Female sheep
EWE
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David —, Best Director Oscar-winner for Lawrence of Arabia
LEAN
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One of the basic patterns of the human fingerprint
ARCH
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Hardwood of tropical Africa used as a substitute for teak
IROKO
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2002 novel by Iain Banks
DEADAIR
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The —, 2013 novel by Jack Higgins
DEATHTRADE
DOWN
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Town in Shropshire between Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton
TELFORD
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1880 novel by Emile Zola
NANA
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French anti-ship missile that travels at a very low altitude at high subsonic speed
EXOCET
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Mark at each end of a tennis court denoting the limit of play
BASELINE
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County of the Republic of Ireland whose county town is Dundalk
LOUTH
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Scottish soup made from a fowl boiled with leeks
COCKALEEKIE
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Name, until 1958, of the Central African Republic
UBANGISHARI
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Town in Shropshire associated with a type of porcelain
COALPORT
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One of the three gorgons in Greek mythology
EURYALE
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Brigitte —, actress-singer who played the title role in 1959 film comedy Babette Goes to War
BARDOT
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Type of lyric poem composed of couplets in which a long line is followed by a shorter one
EPODE
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Maori war chant accompanied by gestures
HAKA
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.