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Most cryptic crosswords provide the number of letters in the answer, or in the case of phrases, a series of numbers to denote the letters in each word: " cryptic crossword " would be clued with "( 7, 9 )" following the clue.
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Most of the major national newspapers in the UK carry both cryptic and concise ( quick ) crosswords.
Most and crosswords
* Most widely distributed American crosswords today ( e. g., The New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, USA Today, etc.
Most crosswords have a theme, and the title often hints at what the theme is.
Most and provide
Most organized rides, for example Cyclosportives, Challenge Rides or reliability trials, and hill climbs include registration requirements and will provide information either through the mail or online concerning start times and other requirements.
Most computer systems provide utility programs to assist in the back-up process, which can become very time-consuming if there are many files to safeguard.
Most systems use hybrid fiber coaxial ( HFC ) distribution ; this means the trunklines that carry the signal from the headend to local neighborhoods are optical fiber to provide greater bandwidth and also extra capacity for future expansion.
Most modern laptops provide a method of screen dimming after periods of inactivity or when the battery is in use.
Most Ericaceae ( excluding the Monotropoideae, Pyroloideae, and some Styphelioideae ) form a distinctive mycorrhizae, where fungi grow in and around the roots and provide the plant with nutrients.
Most of the city's heritage was destroyed during the construction of basements in the 19th century or during World War II, but the backyards and latrines of the houses were not changed and provide information on the city's history.
Most of these are defensive or adaptive, tending to raise the blood sugar via glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis or provide alternative fuels.
Most civil law jurisdictions provide a similar remedy for those unlawfully detained, but this is not always called " habeas corpus ".
Most soil less media for container plants also contain organic materials such as peat or composted bark, which provide some nitrogen to the plant.
Most prime brokers also provide custody services for the fund's assets.
Most of the ISO / IEC 8859 encodings provide diacritic marks required for various European languages using the Latin script.
Most major compiler vendors for Windows still provide free copies of their command-line tools, including Microsoft ( Visual C ++, Platform SDK,. NET Framework SDK, nmake utility ), Embarcadero Technologies ( bcc32 compiler, make utility ).
Most of the wadis that provide drainage from the plateau country into the depression carry water only during the short season of winter rains.
Most modern operating systems provide a built-in implementation of TCP / IP protocol.
Most practical compression algorithms provide an " escape " facility that can turn off the normal coding for files that would become longer by being encoded.
Most of the Poeciliidae are ovoviviparous, that is, while the eggs are retained inside the body of the female for protection, the eggs are essentially independent of the mother and she does not provide them with any nutrients.
Most modern instruments provide simple solutions for micro-photography and image recording electronically.
Most keyboards use a keyboard matrix circuit, in which eight rows and eight columns of wires cross — thus, 16 wires can provide ( 8x8 =) 64 crossings, which the keyboard controller scans in order to determine which key was pressed.
* Most types of masonry typically will not require painting and so can provide a structure with reduced life-cycle costs.
Since 1990, the NTSB has maintained a Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety Improvements, in which it highlights those recommendations that would provide the most significant — and sometimes immediate — benefit to the traveling public.
Most formalisms provide the following operations to construct regular expressions.
Most of the Ebla palace tablets, which date from that period, are about economic matters ; they provide a good look into the everyday life of the inhabitants, as well as many important insights into the cultural, economic, and political life in northern Mesopotamia around the middle of the third millennium B. C.
Most schools provide swimming lessons.
Most particle physicists state that the outcome of the ongoing experiments – the search for new particles at the large particle accelerators and for dark matter – are needed in order to provide theoretical physicists with further input for a ToE.
Most think tanks are non-profit organizations, which some countries such as the United States and Canada provide with tax exempt status.
Most and number
Most of the still extant works of Aristotle, as well as a number of the original Greek commentaries, were translated into Arabic and studied by Muslim philosophers, scientists and scholars.
Most members of Asteraceae are herbaceous, but a significant number are also shrubs, vines and trees.
Most of those who identify themselves as Ainu still live in this same region, though the exact number of living Ainu is unknown.
Most box scores now list inherited runners, and the number that scored, as a statistic for the relief pitcher.
Most bikes have two or three chainrings, and between 5 and 11 sprockets on the back, with the number of theoretical gears calculated by multiplying front by back.
Most people who meet criteria for bipolar disorder experience a number of episodes, on average 0. 4 to 0. 7 per year, lasting three to six months.
Most of the army was composed of riflemen, a significant percentage of which were in Menelik's reserve ; however, the army was also composed of a significant number of cavalry and infantry only armed with lances.
Most motorways are covered by the closed toll collection system, where a driver receives a ticket at the entrance gates and pays at the exit gates according to the number of sections travelled.
Most classical liberals also supported legislation to regulate the number of hours that children were allowed to work and usually did not oppose factory reform legislation.
The most notable difference is the number of its heads: Most sources describe or depict three heads ; others show it with two or even just one ; a smaller number of sources show a variable number, sometimes as many as 50 or even 100.
Most squads are coed, but the number of all-female college squads is rapidly increasing, in an effort to give female cheerleaders, especially bases, who have cheered on all-girl high school or all-star squads an opportunity to cheer at the collegiate level without making the transition to a coed squad.
Most chemotherapy is delivered intravenously, although a number of agents can be administered orally ( e. g., melphalan, busulfan, capecitabine ).
Most early discussions of diaspora were firmly rooted in a conceptual ' homeland '; they were concerned with a paradigmatic case, or a small number of core cases.
Most fighters up to this point had one engine but a number of twin engined fighters were built, however they were found defenseless against single engine fighters and were relegated to other tasks, some becoming night fighters, fitted with very primitive radar sets.
Most naturally occurring fatty acids have a chain of an even number of carbon atoms, from 4 to 28.
Most felids have a haploid number of 18 or 19.
Most galaxies in the universe are gravitationally bound to a number of other galaxies.
Most time zones were based upon this reference as a number of hours and half-hours " ahead of GMT " or " behind GMT ".
Most of his hundreds of woodcuts were commissioned for books, as was usual at the time ; his " single-leaf " woodcuts ( i. e. prints not for book illustration ) are fewer than 100, though no two catalogues agree as to the exact number.
Most American and European gold jewellery is made of an alloy of gold, the purity of which is stated in karats, indicated by a number followed by the letter K. American gold jewellery must be of at least 10K purity ( 41. 7 % pure gold ), ( though in the UK the number is 9K ( 37. 5 % pure gold ) and is typically found up to 18K ( 75 % pure gold ).
Most RNOs are operated as independent entities working under contract to Janet ( UK ), though Janet operates a small number of RNOs directly.
Most classification systems like the Dewey Decimal Classification ( DDC ) and Library of Congress classification also add a cutter number to each work which adds a code for the author of the work.
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