eccentricity: in a conic section, the constant ratio of the distance of a point on the curve from the focus to its distance from the directrix (usually represented by e; (geom)’

GROSS OUT: that is why I underlined just ‘disgust (verb) as definition, leaving ‘show’ as a link word. Oh dear, I do seem to be moaning this morning.( Good Morning. Good Moaning – the ‘Allo ‘Allo French Policeman’s syndrome

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I still think that GREAT BRITAIN is an island but not a country, since the country in question includes Northern Ireland. If Scotland secedes it will be even less so. I looked it up. There are 22 places called Salem in the US, the most famous being the one with the witch trials. It’s also the capital of Oregon and a small town in my own state (Connecticut) I didn’t even know how to find on a map. The cryptic grammar (I follow) doesn’t quite work here – a pity, since the setter dealt with I effectively in the previous clue and in 8dn ShropshireLass @55: who imagined that the proximity of the L to the colon on the keyboard could produce such striking results? 🙂 ] The eccentricity of an ellipse is denoted by e. It is the ratio of the distances from the centre of the ellipse to one of the foci and to one of the vertices of the ellipse, i.e., e = c/a where a is the length of semi-major axis and c is the distance from centre to the foci.

This is designed for blind or partially-sighted users. It is a stripped down text version, which should be easily read by a screen reader. Which crosswords have competitions? The PDF option will still show if it was available on the old crosswords before they were moved over to our new platform. How do I print a crossword? Third downer is, while both are involved in corporal punishment, birch and cane are not really synonymous. True, Janis was a different kettle of fish, although her biggest (posthumous) hit was penned by Kris Kristofferson – there’s a nice version by him and Rita Coolidge.You are able to comment on most crosswords for the first seven days after publication. There is a warning for users. Do not scroll down if you want to avoid the risk of seeing any of the answers. We will not have comments enabled for the Prize, Everyman, Genius or Azed crosswords as these are competitions. What is the blind and PS version? I thought of trying DOER where SHER is, since a doe is a female of various species, and a doer is an actor. But then “old” in the clue wouldn’t have been doing anything–doer is a rare word, but not a particularly archaic one.

That said, I do have sympathy with those discombobulated by the sore/saw merger. It’s not just the presence or absence of an /r/, it’s the fact that the preceding vowel can sound completely different to many rhotic speakers. (Especially in those accents affected by the cot-caught merger, which includes much of Scotland, Ireland, Canada, the US and India. For many American English speakers, ‘saw’ rhymes (more or less) with ‘Shah’, while the vowel in ‘sore’ certainly doesn’t.) Now that’s off my chest: I actually found this mostly enjoyable and a touch easier than previous from the same setter. I needed help with TITOIST (would never have got there on my own, to be fair) but almost all the rest was a steady, reasonably challenging solve, albeit with some solutions from definition and crossers without really understanding the parsing til I got here. I noticed three Frenchisms which suited this Francophone but may have been a little trop for some… muffin @53 – I would see ‘apply’ (with qm) as one of Paul’s whimsical adjectival constructs, like ‘jetty’ = ‘a bit like a jet’. Fwiw Wiktionary has apply as an alternative spelling of appley. And come to think of it, if stubble can be stubbly, and a bobble can be bobbly, why can’t an apple be apply? DE (inDEed at heart, which took a minute or two to work out – nice misdirection) + PRESS) (iron) + I[r]ON) minus r (right)C (chapter) + an anagram (about) of FOUR – I have happy memories of visiting these delightful locations (worth a look) on a holiday in Corfu Cryptic definition, a boater being a kind of hat, the question mark indicating definition by example

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Arcing is a type of electrical discharge that occurs when electrons flow between two conductors, usually metal, in an environment with a gas or vacuum. The conductors can be wires, rods, or other objects that are capable of carrying an electrical current.’) LOW YEAR)* – the Royal We was Queen Victoria’s way of referring to herself (as in the apocryphal “we are not amused”), or her “one”, as formerly used by the more recent late Queen