![]() SMEE – Captain Hook's assistant in Peter Pan.ORC – goblinlike species in Middle-earth.OPIE – Ron Howard's character on The Andy Griffith Show.ILSA – Ilsa Lund, Ingrid Bergman's character in Casablanca.ISOLDE – medieval character depicted in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.IAGO – Iago, villain of Shakespeare's Othello or Iago, parrot in Disney's Aladdin.EWOK – furry species in the Star Wars universe.Salinger's short story " For Esmé-with Love and Squalor" ENOLA – Enola Holmes from the mystery series of the same name.Also Elsa the lioness or Elsa von Brabant. ELSA – princess from the 2013 film Frozen.ANNA – princess from the 2013 film Frozen.AHAB – protagonist of Melville's Moby-Dick.ASTA – dog of Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man movies.For instance, "Et tu, Brute?" might appear in a puzzle's clue sheet as "_, Brute?" Portions of phrases are occasionally used as fill in the blank clues. When applicable, example clues will be denoted in square brackets and answers will be denoted in all caps, e.g. ![]() ![]() ![]() For instance, ITO was occasionally clued in the 1980s and 1990s in reference to dancer Michio Itō and actor Robert Ito then boomed in the late 1990s and 2000s with the rise of judge Lance Ito and has since fallen somewhat, and when it appears today, the clue typically references figure skater Midori Ito or uses the partial phrase "I to" (as in ). The popularity of individual words and names of crosswordese, and the way they are clued, changes over time. According to Marc Romano, "to do well solving crosswords, you absolutely need to keep a running mental list of 'crosswordese', the set of recurring words that constructors reach for whenever they are heading for trouble in a particular section of the grid". Knowing the language of "crosswordese" is helpful to constructors and solvers alike. Too much crosswordese in a crossword puzzle is frowned upon by cruciverbalists and crossword enthusiasts. Such words are needed in almost every puzzle to some extent. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start and/or end with vowels, abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual combinations of letters, and words consisting almost entirely of frequently used letters. Terms found more frequently in crosswordsĬrosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. ![]()
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