More words related to bitchyHello Guest (sign up now) Monday 13 March 2017 If you're good at puzzles, play amongst the best Welcome to Telegraph Puzzles Your home for crosswords, sudoku, word games and puzzles online. Telegraph Puzzles has more than 15,000 mind-bending brain games and puzzles to challenge and entertain you. Join Now to start playing and win cash prizes. This feature requires the latest version of Adobe Flash Player. Join now for your chance to win cash prizes This feature requires the latest version of Adobe Flash Player Toughie - No. 1 Toughie - No. 2 Toughie - No. 3 Toughie - No. 4 Toughie - No. 5 Toughie - No. 6 Quick - No. 27,166 Quick - No. 25,632 Cryptic - No. 27,166 Cryptic - No. 26,151 Cryptic - No. 26,187 Quick - No. 27,663 This website requires flash player 9.0.115 to be installed on your computerI found this Monday crossword more difficult than usual: it seemed to start off OK, and I figured out fairly quickly that the first words of the long answers all rhymed (with different spellings of the -icky ending, it was good to see).
But things went off the rails in the southeast corner, not helped by having for {Interminably} ... no, I wasn't crazy, it does fit the clue just as well. I compounded that mistake with for {The Olympic rings, e.g.}. It took a couple of minutes to disentangle the mess I got into there, not helped by a strange inability to spell . Anyway, I thought it a great achievement to implement the theme with six differently spelled examples ... until the arrival of the indispensable , I imagine it would have been tough to reach that number. Grid art by Sympathy [about the grid colors] Different ways the "icky" sound can be spelled: 39a Ávila {Walled city near Madrid}. Although this rang vague bells, it's decidedly not at the forefront of my mind: Ávila is certainly a walled city, but I don't know that it's particularly close to Madrid ... it's in the next-door province. The other notable thing about the city is its elevation: at 3665 feet it experiences very hard and long winters.
It was the city that Orson Welles always wanted to live in, for unusual reasons. "Horrible climate, too hot in the summer, too cold in the winter, very strange tragic place. I don't know why I want to live there." 61a Era {___ of Good Feelings, 1817-25}. Here's a surprise ... there was a period of American History when the nation wasn't politically divided ... perhaps because everyone was united in their hatred of the British after the War of 1812? The term Era of Good Feelings was coined by Benjamin Russell, following the good-will visit to Boston of President James Monroe. The Federalists had largely dissolved and were no longer attacking the president and the nation united behind the Democratic-Republican Party. 66a {Nash who wrote "I don't mind eels / Except as meals"}. I've encountered a lot of (1902–1971) poems over the years, but not this one. It's so short the clue just about has the whole thing (brevity is the soul of wit). 3d macaw {Bird important in Mayan symbology}.
The Maya associated parrots, especially macaws, with fire, and the sun, because of their bright colors. The hero twins of the Popul Vuh trick the death gods by placing macaw feathers at the end of cigars to make them appear to be burning. 52d {Bea Arthur role}. If I've come across (1922–2009) before, then I'm sorry to say that my memory let me down today. Bea achieved fame as the character on the 1970s sitcoms and its spin-off . was an outspoken, middle-aged, politically liberal woman living in suburban with her fourth husband. She embraced the tenets of women's liberation, always voted for Democratic Party candidates, strongly supported legal abortion, and advocated for civil rights and racial and gender equality. However, her overbearing and sometimes domineering personality often got her into trouble when speaking out on these issues. 1a {Harold of "Ghostbusters"}. I doubt I'd have heard of if (1984) hadn't been one of my favorite comedies. I see that also directed (1993), coming up on Tuesday ... though why any should want to come out of hibernation at the beginning of February I don't know - in our corner of PA, we experienced a low of -1°F last night.
Anyway, it's very refreshing to sit down to do a crossword and be able to solve 1-Across right away ... hello Monday! 52a MRE {G.I. grub}. With 54-Down being potentially amend or emend, you had to be sure of this one. I finally remembered the expansion as Meal, Ready-to-Eat and so knew to go with emend. Here is the typical contents of an MRE:11a Kat {Krazy ___}; 22d cool cat {Beat Generation persona}. I'm cool about Kat and cool cat as answers in the same puzzle. cool cat was an expression tossed around ironically at school, but I've never really been sure what it meant and so I was intrigued by the Beat Generation reference. According to Partridge, the term was originally applied to jazz addicts and then rock-and-rollers. Then there was a Cool Cat cartoon series on TV. Krazy Kat was a comic strip whose biggest fan was its publisher William Randolph Hearst.14a {"Alas and ___"}; 15a {"You gotta be kidding me!"}; 20a {12 months from now}; 21a {Dressed in lab attire}; 24a {Use a Singer machine};
27a {Mach 1 breaker}; 40a {Blown-up photo: Abbr.}; 41a {Many-___ (large, as an estate)}; 45a {Drink at a sushi bar}; 47a {Round about the belly}; 48a {Concerning, on a memo}; 50a {Miracle-___ (garden care brand)}; 58a {Say "Holy cow!" or "Hot dog!"}; 67a {"On ___ Majesty's Secret Service"}; 68a {Small baked desserts}; 2d {1950s Dior dress style}; 8d {Providers of sheep's milk}; 13d {Care for, with "to"}; 30d {The Bruins of the N.C.A.A.}; 32d {___-Ball (arcade game)}; 33d {Some colorful sneakers}; 34d {Highest-grossing film before "Star Wars"}; 37d {Ruby and scarlet}; 38d {"___ Rock" (Simon & Garfunkel hit)}; 43d {Retired, as a female professor}; 49d {Convened anew, as the Senate}; 53d {No longer in bed}; 54d {Alter, as text}; 55d {Sister of Rachel}; 56d {Upstate New York's ___ Canal}; 57d {Raleigh's home: Abbr.}; 59d {"Get the lead out!"}; 60d {The Olympic rings, e.g.}; 63d {Collection of items for a modelist}.Birkenstock a shoe known for being very comfortable. Birkenstocks have the reputation of being worn mostly by people who care for the environment and try to live a healthy life.boat shoe a flat canvas or leather shoe with a rubber sole designed to stop you slipping on wet surfacesboot a type of shoe that covers all of your foot and part of your leg.
You often wear boots to protect your feet and legs, for example from snow or rainboot British a type of shoe that you wear for a particular sportbrogues strong leather shoes with a pattern of holes and stitcheschappal Indian English a shoe consisting of a flat bottom with one thin piece of leather attached to it, that goes between the first two toesclodhoppers informalhumorous large heavy shoesclog a shoe with a wooden sole (=bottom part), especially a shoe that does not cover your heelcourt shoe British a very plain type of woman’s shoe with a small heel and no fastening. The American word is pump.cowboy boots high leather boots with raised heels and pointed toescrosstrainer a type of sports shoe designed for several different activitiesdeck shoe a flat shoe that is made of thick cloth and has a rubber bottomdesert boot a low boot made of suede (=soft leather with a slightly rough surface) that covers your anklesDoc Martens strong shoes or boots with thick flat solesespadrille a light shoe with the top part made of canvas (=strong cloth) and
the bottom made of twisted ropeflats mainly American shoes without heels or with very low heelsflip-flop a rubber shoe without a top or back, held to your foot by a strap in the shape of a ‘V’ that goes between your toesgaloshes special rubber shoes that you wear over ordinary shoes to protect them when it rainsheels women’s shoes with high heelshigh heels women’s shoes that have high heelshobnailed boot a large heavy boot whose sole (=bottom part) is fixed on with large nailsjackboot a heavy military boot that covers the bottom part of your leg up to the knee and is made of thick leatherkitten heels fashionable women’s shoes with a low heellace-ups informal shoes that you tie with lacesloafer a low leather shoe that you slip on and do not need to tiemoccasin a soft leather shoe with a flat heelmule a slipper or shoe that has no upper part around the heelovershoe a shoe that fits over an ordinary shoe and keeps it dry in wet weatheroxfords strong leather shoes that you fasten with shoelacesplatforms shoes that have a very thick bottom part and make you look much tallerplimsoll Britishold-fashioned a light shoe made from strong cotton on the top and rubber on the bottom, used for playing games and sportspump British a shoe made of strong cloth
, worn by children for doing sports at schoolpump British a flat shoe that does not fasten and is worn for dancingpump mainly American a plain type of woman’s shoe that has a heel and does not fastenpump a shiny type of man’s shoe that does not fasten and is worn for formal occasionsRollerblade a type of boot with a single row of small wheels along the bottom, used for moving quickly along, especially for fun or as a sportroller skate a boot with four small wheels on the bottom used for moving quickly along, especially for fun or as a sportsandal a light shoe that is partly open on top and does not cover your heel or toesshoe something that you wear on each foot, usually over socksshoe relating to shoes, or used for shoesskate a type of shoe with a thin metal blade on the bottom, used for moving quickly on iceskate a type of shoe with four thick wheels on the bottom, used for moving quickly on a smooth surfaceslide a shoe that covers the front of the foot and is very low at the backslingback a type of woman’s shoe with a narrow band round the heelslip-on a shoe that you do not need to fastenslipper a soft
comfortable shoe that you wear in your houseslip-slops South African rubber shoes without a top or back, held to your foot by a strap in the shape of a “V” that goes between your toes; flip-flopssneaker mainly Americaninformal a trainer that you wear for playing sportssnowshoe a flat frame that you fit onto the bottom of your shoe so that you can walk on deep snowspikes sports shoes with short pointed pieces of metal on the bottomstiletto a shoe that has a thin high heeltackie South Africaninformal a shoe used when playing sport or for relaxing intakkie another spelling of tackietennis shoe a shoe with a rubber sole (=bottom) that is used for playing tennis and other sportsthong American and Australian a flip-floptrainers British strong, comfortable shoes which are designed for doing sports in, but which many people wear as informal clothingtraining shoe British a trainerwaders rubber boots or a combination of trousers and rubber boots that people wear when they stand in water to fishwedge a shoe with a high heel that forms a solid unit with the bottom of the shoe wellie Britishinformal a rubber or plastic boot that does not let water