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And after all the weather was ideal. They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it. Windless, warm, the sky without a cloud. Only the blue was veiled with a haze of light gold, as it is sometimes in early summer. The gardener had been up since dawn, mowing the lawns and sweeping them, until the grass and the dark flat rosettes where the daisy plants had been seemed to shine. As for the roses, you could not help feeling they understood that roses are the only flowers that impress people at garden-parties; the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing. Hundreds, yes, literally hundreds, had come out in a single night; the green bushes bowed down as though they had been visited by archangels.
Breakfast was not yet over before the men came to put up the marquee.
“Where do you want the marquee put, mother?”
“My dear child, it’s no use asking me. I’m determined to leave everything to you children this year. Forget I am your mother. Treat me as an honoured guest.”
But Meg could not possibly go and supervise the men. She had washed her hair before breakfast, and she sat drinking her coffee in a green
Constructor: Ben Tolkin and Julian Xiao
Relative difficulty: Easy
Word of the Day: BOKEH (5A: Out-of-focus effect in photography, from the Japanese for "blur") —
In photography, bokeh ( BOH-kə or BOH-kay; Japanese: [boke]) is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in out-of-focus parts of an image, caused by circles of confusion. Bokeh has also been defined as "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light". Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause very different bokeh effects. Some lens designs blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others create distracting or unpleasant blurring ("good" and "bad" bokeh, respectively). Photographers may deliberately use a shallow focus technique to create images with prominent out-of-focus regions, accentuating their lens's bokeh.Bokeh is often most noticeable around small background highlights, such as specular reflections and light sources, which is why it is often associated with such areas. However, bokeh is n
Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies
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1 Jordans, e.g. : NIKES
Air Jordan is a Nike brand of shoe (and other apparel) endorsed by NBA great Michael Jordan. The silhouette of a basketball player that features on Air Jordans is known as the “Jumpman” logo.
6 CNN political correspondent Bash : DANA
Journalist Dana Bash became co-host of CNN’s Sunday morning show “State of the Union” in 2021, alongside Jake Tapper. She was born Dana Schwartz, and was married to Jeremy Bash, a senior adviser in the Obama administration. She was also married to fellow CNN broadcast journalist John King.
16 Last thing left in Pandora’s box : HOPE
According to Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman. She was created by the gods, with each god bestowing on her a gift. Her name can be translated from Greek as “all-gifted”. Pandora is famous for the story of “Pandora’s Box”. The story should be about Pandora’s “Jar”,as a 16th-century error in translation created a “box” out of the “jar”. In the story of Pandora’s Box, curiosity got the better of her and she opened up a box she was meant to leave alone. As a result she released all the evils of mankind, just closing it
New York Times, Friday, May 17, 2024
Analysis
There are 15 rows and 15 columns, with 0 rebus squares, and no cheater squares.
The grid uses 22 of 26 letters, missing JQXZ.
It has normal rotational symmetry.
Average word length: 5.36, Scrabble score: 312, Scrabble average: 1.62.
Puzzle has 0 fill-in-the-blank clues and 0 cross-reference clues.
This puzzle has 7 unique answer words.
CTRLALTDELFALLBACKPLANGODIMLOSINGSLEEPNAVYCADETREADSAHEADSNIDEREMARKS
It has 0 words that debuted in this puzzle and were later reused:
These 33 answer words are not legal Scrabble™ entries, which sometimes means they are interesting:
ABEADELEALOTAVILACABLECARCHEESEWEDGECMASCNOTECTRLALTDELDANAFALLBACKPLANFELLINLOVEGODIMHADONICEEIDOIMONADIETINHDLAHORELOSINGSLEEPMBAMCGRAWNAVYCADETNIKESNSFWOSLOREADSAHEADROKURTESCIENCELABSKYESNIDEREMARKSTIDALWAVE
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