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Hello, what are you guys up to? I just got through cutting all the crosswords out of my paper stack. Running behind, with so many on the internet and now that the sun and warmer weather is here been outside more, so getting behind on the newspaper crosswords. Hope y'all are having a great day!!
Fill in Blank 50s TV
Iconic 20th Century comedian Bob __ had his own show on NBC.
Clue _ _ p _
Our __ Brooks starred Eve Arden as a high school English teacher. Clue _ _ _ s
The __ McCoys was a Desilu comedy on ABC from 1957 to 1962.
Clue _ e _ _
The Jack __ Program ran for 15 years starting in 1950.
Clue _ _ n _ _
The __ Kid was one of the first TV series filmed in color.
Clue _ _ _ _ o
Life of __ started as a radio program in 1941.
Clue R _ _ _ _
Tony Dow and Jerry Mathers starred as brothers in Leave it to __. Clue _ _ a _ _ _
__ Knows Best focused on the middle class Anderson family.
Clue _ _ _ h _ _
__ Gleason Show was first called The Cavalcade of Stars.
Clue _ _ _ _ i _
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet featured the real-life __ family. Clue _ _ l _ _ _
Your Hit __ was sponsored by Lucky Strikes cigarettes.
Clue _ _ _ _ _ e
I've Got A __ and What's My Line were Goodson/Todman shows.
Clue _ _ c _ _ _
__ Star Theater started in Radio with Ed Wynn and Milton Berle. Clue _ _ x _ _ _
Sergeant Joe Friday was the star of this police drama.
Clue _ _ _ _ _ e _
You Bet Your Life was hosted by this Marx brother.
Clue _ r _ _ _ _ _
__ was the gentleman-turn-gunfighter on Have Gun - Will Travel. Clue _ _ _ _ d _ _
Red __ signed off his show with "Good night and God bless"
Clue _ _ _ l _ _ _
Davy __ was first seen on the television show Disneyland in 1955. Clue _ _ _ _ k _ _ _
Jane Wyman was host of __ Theater from 1955-58.
Clue _ _ r _ _ _ _ _
This western, set in Dodge City, Kansas ran for 20 years.
Clue _ u _ _ _ _ _ _
Alfred Hitchcock __ first aired on CBS in 1955.
Clue P _ _ _ _ _ _ _
The first episode of The __ was broadcast on Zane Grey Theater. _ _ _ l _ _ _ _
Early TV __ included Colgate, Texaco, Gillette, Ford, and Chrysler. Clue _ _ _ _ _ _ r _
Toast of the Town became the well-known Ed __ Show in 1955.
Clue _ _ l _ _ _ _ _
Adventures of __ featured George Reeves as the Man of Steel. Clue _ _ _ _ r _ _ _
Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance and William Frawley were stars. Clue _ _ _ _ _ _ _ c _
The __ __ is known for saying "Hi-ho Silver, Away!"
Clue _ _ n _ _ _ _ g _ _
Tales of __ __ starred Dale Robertson as Special Agent Jim Hardie. _ _ _ _ S _ _ _ _ _
Clue _ _ p _
Our __ Brooks starred Eve Arden as a high school English teacher. Clue _ _ _ s
The __ McCoys was a Desilu comedy on ABC from 1957 to 1962.
Clue _ e _ _
The Jack __ Program ran for 15 years starting in 1950.
Clue _ _ n _ _
The __ Kid was one of the first TV series filmed in color.
Clue _ _ _ _ o
Life of __ started as a radio program in 1941.
Clue R _ _ _ _
Tony Dow and Jerry Mathers starred as brothers in Leave it to __. Clue _ _ a _ _ _
__ Knows Best focused on the middle class Anderson family.
Clue _ _ _ h _ _
__ Gleason Show was first called The Cavalcade of Stars.
Clue _ _ _ _ i _
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet featured the real-life __ family. Clue _ _ l _ _ _
Your Hit __ was sponsored by Lucky Strikes cigarettes.
Clue _ _ _ _ _ e
I've Got A __ and What's My Line were Goodson/Todman shows.
Clue _ _ c _ _ _
__ Star Theater started in Radio with Ed Wynn and Milton Berle. Clue _ _ x _ _ _
Sergeant Joe Friday was the star of this police drama.
Clue _ _ _ _ _ e _
You Bet Your Life was hosted by this Marx brother.
Clue _ r _ _ _ _ _
__ was the gentleman-turn-gunfighter on Have Gun - Will Travel. Clue _ _ _ _ d _ _
Red __ signed off his show with "Good night and God bless"
Clue _ _ _ l _ _ _
Davy __ was first seen on the television show Disneyland in 1955. Clue _ _ _ _ k _ _ _
Jane Wyman was host of __ Theater from 1955-58.
Clue _ _ r _ _ _ _ _
This western, set in Dodge City, Kansas ran for 20 years.
Clue _ u _ _ _ _ _ _
Alfred Hitchcock __ first aired on CBS in 1955.
Clue P _ _ _ _ _ _ _
The first episode of The __ was broadcast on Zane Grey Theater. _ _ _ l _ _ _ _
Early TV __ included Colgate, Texaco, Gillette, Ford, and Chrysler. Clue _ _ _ _ _ _ r _
Toast of the Town became the well-known Ed __ Show in 1955.
Clue _ _ l _ _ _ _ _
Adventures of __ featured George Reeves as the Man of Steel. Clue _ _ _ _ r _ _ _
Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance and William Frawley were stars. Clue _ _ _ _ _ _ _ c _
The __ __ is known for saying "Hi-ho Silver, Away!"
Clue _ _ n _ _ _ _ g _ _
Tales of __ __ starred Dale Robertson as Special Agent Jim Hardie. _ _ _ _ S _ _ _ _ _
First Crossword
Fill in the small squares with words which agree with the following definitions.
2-3 What bargain hunters enjoy.
4-5 A written acknowledgment.
6-7 Such and nothing more.
10-11 A bird.
14-15 Opposed to less.
18-19 What this puzzle is.
22-23 An animal of prey.
26-27 The close of a day.
28-29 To elude.
30-31 The plural of is.
8-9 To cultivate.
12-13 A bar of wood or iron.
16-17 What artists learn to do.
20-21 Fastened.
24-25 Found on the seashore.
10-18 The fibre of the gomuti palm.
6-22 What we all should be.
4-26 A day dream.
2-11 A talon.
19-28 A pigeon.
F-7 Part of your head.
23-30 A river in Russia.
1-32 To govern.
33-34 An aromatic plant.
N-8 A fist.
24-31 To agree with.
3-12 Part of a ship.
20-29 One.
5-27 Exchanging.
9-25 To sink in mud.
13-21 A boy.
The World's First Crossword-The History
Arthur Wynne had the job of devising the weekly puzzle page for Fun, the eight-page comic section of the New York World. When he devised what he called a Word-cross for the Christmas 1913 edition, published on 21 December he could have no idea that he would be starting a worldwide craze.
The puzzle page had previously featured plenty of word squares, rebuses, hidden words, anagrams and connect-the-dots drawings. For this edition Wynne decided he would have something new. He sketched out a diamond-shaped grid, wrote FUN, the name of the comic section, across the top squares, and started filling in the rest of the grid. He numbered the squares at the start and end of each word, and wrote definition clues for the words he had filled in. The puzzle was printed with the instruction to the solver: "Fill in the small squares with words which agree with the following definitions.". Thus was the crossword born.
The new puzzle became popular immediately, and continued to appear every week. One change was that after a few weeks the name was changed from Word-cross to Cross-word. After experimenting with different shapes, including a circular puzzle, Wynne eventually settled on a rectangular pattern. It was not until some time later that the hyphen was dropped, and the Cross-word became a Crossword.
From the very first, readers began sending in crosswords they had composed, and by February 1914, Wynne was regularly using these readers' submissions. There was a problem, however: the weekly crossword was plagued by typesetting errors, and as a result it was decided to drop the crossword. An immediate howl of outrage came from the readers, and the crossword was reinstated after an absence of only one week.
Surprisingly, despite their popularity, crosswords appeared nowhere else but the New York World. Then in 1924, a couple of newly-qualified graduates of the Columbia School of Journalism, called Dick Simon and Lincoln Schuster, set up in business as publishers. Looking for something to publish, they settled on a book of the puzzles from the New York World. This book was an immediate massive hit, and launched the crossword craze worldwide.
The puzzle page had previously featured plenty of word squares, rebuses, hidden words, anagrams and connect-the-dots drawings. For this edition Wynne decided he would have something new. He sketched out a diamond-shaped grid, wrote FUN, the name of the comic section, across the top squares, and started filling in the rest of the grid. He numbered the squares at the start and end of each word, and wrote definition clues for the words he had filled in. The puzzle was printed with the instruction to the solver: "Fill in the small squares with words which agree with the following definitions.". Thus was the crossword born.
The new puzzle became popular immediately, and continued to appear every week. One change was that after a few weeks the name was changed from Word-cross to Cross-word. After experimenting with different shapes, including a circular puzzle, Wynne eventually settled on a rectangular pattern. It was not until some time later that the hyphen was dropped, and the Cross-word became a Crossword.
From the very first, readers began sending in crosswords they had composed, and by February 1914, Wynne was regularly using these readers' submissions. There was a problem, however: the weekly crossword was plagued by typesetting errors, and as a result it was decided to drop the crossword. An immediate howl of outrage came from the readers, and the crossword was reinstated after an absence of only one week.
Surprisingly, despite their popularity, crosswords appeared nowhere else but the New York World. Then in 1924, a couple of newly-qualified graduates of the Columbia School of Journalism, called Dick Simon and Lincoln Schuster, set up in business as publishers. Looking for something to publish, they settled on a book of the puzzles from the New York World. This book was an immediate massive hit, and launched the crossword craze worldwide.
Crossword Trivia
More than 50 million people in this country work the puzzles fairly regularly.
Vowels comprise almost 40 percent of the letters used in the English language as a whole, but they account for almost half the letters that appear in crossword grids.
Most answers have no more than five letters.
Although proper-name clues often reflect current affairs and cultural trends ("Supermodel Bündchen" or '___ Phair with the 2003 tune `Why Can't I?' "), certain celebrities and historical figures appear so frequently they have achieved a sort of crossword immortality, among them ELLA Fitzgerald, ESTEE Lauder, ERLE Stanley Gardner, ELI Whitney, Leon URIS, ERMA Bombeck and Clifford ODETS.
South Florida's top puzzle celebrity is of course, "Clinton Attorney General" Janet RENO.
Vowels comprise almost 40 percent of the letters used in the English language as a whole, but they account for almost half the letters that appear in crossword grids.
Most answers have no more than five letters.
Although proper-name clues often reflect current affairs and cultural trends ("Supermodel Bündchen" or '___ Phair with the 2003 tune `Why Can't I?' "), certain celebrities and historical figures appear so frequently they have achieved a sort of crossword immortality, among them ELLA Fitzgerald, ESTEE Lauder, ERLE Stanley Gardner, ELI Whitney, Leon URIS, ERMA Bombeck and Clifford ODETS.
South Florida's top puzzle celebrity is of course, "Clinton Attorney General" Janet RENO.
Wondering...
Just wondering how many of you work the crossword puzzle here on eons games and what you thing about working a crossword puzzle online as opposed to working one out of the paper or book? The ones online are always so much easier because you can just keep on until you find the correct letter and sometimes that is all you need to find the correct word, on the other hand, not the case when working on offline. I find it much more challenging to work one out of the paper...having said that...I do try and work the ones here everyday as well as most of the word games. I just love them. Crossword puzzles online here and in the paper start out easy on Monday's and get harder as the week goes on. I cannot ever work the Sunday's puzzle...I keep them and 'try' and work them from time to time...when I finally figure something out I get so excited...I have a stack of them...just wondering what you guys think?
Copied from another group
HUMOR FOR LEXOPHILES (lovers of words)
-- I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
-- Police were called to a day care where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
-- Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.
-- To write with a broken pencil is pointless.
-- The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
-- When the smog lifts in Los Angeles, U.C.L.A.
-- The math professor went crazy with the blackboard. He did a number on it.
-- The professor discovered that her theory of earthquakes was on shaky ground.
-- The dead batteries were given out free of charge.
-- A dentist and a manicurist fought tooth and nail.
-- A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.
-- A will is a dead giveaway.
-- A backward poet writes inverse.
-- A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.
-- With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.
-- A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in France, resulted in linoleum blownapart.
-- A calendar's days are numbered.
-- A boiled egg is hard to beat.
-- If you jump off a Paris bridge, you are in Seine.
-- When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd dye.
-- Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
Thought I would share this...was posted on another group I am a member of. Ruthie
-- I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
-- Police were called to a day care where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
-- Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.
-- To write with a broken pencil is pointless.
-- The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
-- When the smog lifts in Los Angeles, U.C.L.A.
-- The math professor went crazy with the blackboard. He did a number on it.
-- The professor discovered that her theory of earthquakes was on shaky ground.
-- The dead batteries were given out free of charge.
-- A dentist and a manicurist fought tooth and nail.
-- A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.
-- A will is a dead giveaway.
-- A backward poet writes inverse.
-- A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.
-- With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.
-- A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in France, resulted in linoleum blownapart.
-- A calendar's days are numbered.
-- A boiled egg is hard to beat.
-- If you jump off a Paris bridge, you are in Seine.
-- When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd dye.
-- Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
Thought I would share this...was posted on another group I am a member of. Ruthie
