Adam Levav author page
4 puzzles by Adam Levav
with Jim Horne comments
See the 19 answer words debuted by Adam Levav.
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{ CURLY BRACES } at 36-Across are indeed "used to group blocks of computer code" in many languages. This site uses TypeScript on the client side and C# on the server side, and both languages (and many others) use curly braces.
An increasingly common counterexample is Python, which uses indentation to accomplish the same thing, making the code look a little cleaner. If you're a constructor, I have some sample Python scripts you can use with your word lists to accomplish tricks far beyond what Finder or even RegEx searches can do.
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| A | L | A | J | A | C | U | Z | Z | I | W | V | U | ||
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| B | E | R | A | T | E | A | L | I | A | R | E | S | ||
| S | T | E | V | I | A | B | A | S | E | L | I | N | E | |
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| R | I | C | O | T | T | A | K | I | M | O | N | O | S | |
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| H | A | D | E | P | S | O | M | A | E | R | O | |||
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CIRCLES BACK at 37-Across means that the starred clues (the across answers with circles) need to be read first by skipping the circles, and then circling back to include them. Or more simply, move the CIRCLES to the BACK of the words.
- BA(S)(E)LINE → BALINESE
- RI(C)O(T)TA → RIOT ACT
- (K)(I)MONOS → MONOSKI
- (A)(V)ENG(E)R → ENGRAVE
- (D)(U)ST(P)AN → STANDUP
- (R)EVIL(I)(N)G → EVIL GRIN
Once again, we see that the words before and after transformation are all legitimate crossword entries. It's the modern crossword ANTE for gimmicks like this.
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| L | I | N | E | L | A | C | E | S | U | P | ||||
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| E | T | T | A | D | M | E | D | P | R | E | S | S |
MIDDLE ENGLISH was spoken and written between the Old and Early Modern English periods — roughly 1100 to 1500. Shakespeare's plays and the King James Bible were about a century after that.