{"id":789,"date":"2003-12-24T07:14:56","date_gmt":"2003-12-24T11:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=789"},"modified":"2003-12-24T07:14:56","modified_gmt":"2003-12-24T11:14:56","slug":"a-hard-crossword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=789","title":{"rendered":"A hard crossword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weekend Financial Times has had a peculiarly evil general knowledge crossword for the last two or three years: it used to be in the weekend magazine, and migrated to the main section in the autumn. We attempt it every week, and almost every week I learn a new word from it. I cheat of course. I don&#8217;t think it would be possible for anyone to solve without access to a library, or for anyone but the most gifted and learned to solve it without Google and the acronym faculty of the <span class=\"caps\">OED.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p>Among the answers this week, I have found two old french words, one classed as archaic by the <span class=\"caps\">OED <\/span>(&#8220;Virelay&#8221; and &#8220;Veilleuse&#8221;, respectively a stanza form and a night light), the nickname for a shrike (&#8220;Nine killer&#8221;) and a term for radical sceptics, &#8220;nullifidian&#8221;. I still have not found &#8220;A Swabian dance in triple time, or an old German&#8221; &#8212; ?l?a?m, nor  &#8220;A ruffian, informally&#8221; &#8212; ???g?o.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weekend Financial Times has had a peculiarly evil general knowledge crossword for the last two or three years: it used to be in the weekend magazine, and migrated to the main section in the autumn. We attempt it every &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=789\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=789\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}