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noun • a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements • a business firm that publishes newspapers • the physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher • cheap paper made from wood pulp and used for printing newspapers | ||||
| 36% | 4 | Answer to Gollum's riddle in "The Hobbit," which starts "This thing all things devours — birds, beasts, trees, flowers" | ||
noun • an instance or single occasion for some event • a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something • an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities) • a suitable moment • the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past • a person's experience on a particular occasion • a reading of a point in time as given by a clock • the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event • rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration • the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned verb • measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time • assign a time for an activity or event • set the speed, duration, or execution of • regulate or set the time of • adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time | ||||
| 34% | 11 | Riddle with no clear answer | ||
adjective satellite • seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true | ||||
Answer To An Old Riddle Alluded To By The Starts Of 17 32 42 And 64 Across
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