Portions of phrases are occasionally used as
fill in the blank clues. For instance, "Et tu, Brute?" might appear in a puzzle's clue sheet as "_____, Brute?"
Architecture •
APSE – semicircular church recess •
OGEE – S-shaped curve often seen in Gothic arches
Biblical references •
CAIN and ABEL – sons of Adam and Eve in Genesis 4:1–16 •
ENOS – first-born son of
Seth •
ESAU – older twin son of
Isaac Computers and the Internet •
LAN – local area network, network of computers in a limited area •
HTML – the standard language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser
Currency and business •
LEK – official currency of Albania •
LEV – official currency of Bulgaria •
LIRA (plural LIRE) – official currency of Turkey; former currency of Italy •
OPEC – Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries •
AHAB – protagonist of Melville's
Moby-Dick •
ELSA – princess from the 2013 film
Frozen. Also
Elsa the lioness or
Elsa von Brabant. • ENOLA –
Enola Holmes from the mystery series of the same name •
PHO –
Vietnamese soup •
POI – mashed
taro root dish •
AMES – city of Iowa that is the home of
Iowa State University •
APIA – capital of Samoa •
ARAL – lake of Central Asia that has largely dried up by the 2010s •
ARLES – city of southern France where
van Gogh painted •
YSER – river of France and Belgium •
EWER – decorative
pitcher •
ULU – knife traditionally used by
Yup'ik,
Inuit, and
Aleut women
Mathematics •
RADII – plural of
radius, straight line from the centre of a circle to its
circumference Music •
ADAGIO –
tempo marking that means "play slowly" •
A DUE – musical direction that means "for two" • ALDA –
Alan Alda, American actor who starred in
M*A*S*H (1972–1983) • ALOU –
Alou family of American baseball players (
Felipe,
Matty,
Jesús, and
Moisés) • ARIE –
Arie Luyendyk, Dutch race car driver; or
India Arie, American singer • AROD –
Alex Rodriguez ("A-Rod"), American baseball player • ASHE –
Arthur Ashe, American tennis player • ELBA –
Idris Elba, English actor • ENYA –
Enya, Irish singer of
New Age music • ERIQ –
Eriq La Salle, American actor who starred on
ER • ERLE –
Erle Stanley Gardner, American detective author who created
Perry Mason • ETTA –
Etta James, American blues and R&B singer; • ITALO –
Italo Calvino, Italian author • PELE –
Pelé, Brazilian soccer player explorer
John Rae,
Issa Rae, • URI –
Uri Geller, Israeli magician •
AERIE – high nest of a
bird of prey •
ALOE – succulent plant. Often refers to
Aloe vera, a common cosmetic ingredient and sunburn-relieving gel •
EIDER – kind of duck used for their
down feathers •
GNU – another name for the wildebeest •
MOA – extinct bird of New Zealand •
NENE – goose endemic to Hawaii (and its state bird) •
OCA – tuber of South America •
TIT – common bird related to the
chickadee •
UDO – Japanese herb • AVEC – (French) "with" • ÊTRE – (French) "to be", as in "
raison d'être" •
AMUN-RA (also AMON-RA or AMEN-RA) •
ARES – Greek god of war, one of the
twelve Olympians • SAC – baseball clipping of "sacrifice", as in
sac fly or
sac bunt • "ERI TU" – aria from Verdi's
Un ballo in maschera •
OMOO – 1847 novel by
Herman Melville •
OTELLO – 1887 opera by Verdi based on Shakespeare's
Othello •
TOSCA – 1900 opera by
Puccini •
TYPEE – 1846 novel by Melville
Titles used by royalty and the nobility •
AGA (or AGHA) – Turkish honorific for a high-level government official •
BEY – the governor of a district or province in the
Ottoman Empire •
EMIR – a title given to princes and/or
sheikhs who rule certain
Arab countries; •
IROC (or
IROC-Z) – racing organization or its namesake type of
Chevrolet Camaro Miscellaneous crosswordese •
ALAMO – mission in
San Antonio, Texas, where the
Battle of the Alamo took place • LAIC – of the
laity (non-clergy) •
NÉE – designates woman's surname before marriage; literally French for "born" •
ORE – rock mined for metal •
OTOE – indigenous people of what is now Nebraska, •
INEE – type of arrow poison used by native South Americans • SLA –
Symbionese Liberation Army, 1970s radical group known for kidnapping
Patty Hearst ==References==