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27/12/2025

– PANETTONE

N.
a kind of Italian spiced brioche containing sultanas: traditionally eaten at Christmas in Italy

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26/12/2025

– CROSSWORD

COUNTABLE N.
A crossword or crossword puzzle is a word game in which you work out the answers and write them in the white squares of a pattern of small black and white squares.

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25/12/2025

– CRUCIVERBALIST

N.
a crossword puzzle enthusiast

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24/12/2025

– CRYPTIC

Adj.
A cryptic remark or message contains a hidden meaning or is difficult to understand.

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23/12/2025

– ANAGRAM

COUNTABLE N.
An anagram is a word or phrase formed by changing the order of the letters in another word or phrase. For example, ' triangle' is an anagram of ' integral'.

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22/12/2025

– INTERLOCK

1. V.
Things that interlock or are interlocked go between or through each other so that they are linked.
2. V.
If systems, situations, or plans are interlocked or interlock, they are very closely connected.

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21/12/2025

– WORD GAME

N.
any game involving the formation, discovery, or alteration of a word or words

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20/12/2025

– ACROSTIC

N.
a. a number of lines of writing, such as a poem, certain letters of which form a word, proverb, etc. A single acrostic is formed by the initial letters of the lines, a double acrostic by the initial and final letters, and a triple acrostic by the initial, middle, and final letters
b. the word, proverb, etc, so formed
c. (as modifier)
an acrostic sonnet

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19/12/2025

– AUSTEN

N.
Jane. 1775–1817, English novelist, noted particularly for the insight and delicate irony of her portrayal of middle-class families. Her completed novels are Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1816), Northanger Abbey (1818), and Persuasion (1818)

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18/12/2025

– PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

N.
a novel (1813) by Jane Austen (written 1796–97)

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17/12/2025

– JANEITE

N.
a devotee of the works of Jane Austen

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16/12/2025

– LANDED GENTRY

N.
British
upper class landowners

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