AGEE – James Agee, American novelist and critic. Greek letters often appear as well, such as ETA. The "zed" spelling of Z is often indicated by a reference to a Commonwealth country, where that is the standard pronunciation (e.g. the clue for ZEES, referring to the two Zs in the center of the word "pu zzle". Often these letters are clued as puns, e.g. TEC – old slang for a de tective īecause of crossword rules that restrict the usage of two-letter words, only entries of three or more letters have been listed. ALEE – in nautical language, toward the side opposite the wind. 
URAL – river and mountain range of Russia. LO – Saint-Lô, World War II battle site in Normandy SOHO – neighborhood in London ( Soho or neighborhood in New York City ( SoHo). IWO – Iwo Jima, World War II battle site in Japan. ERIE – one of the Great Lakes or its namesake city in Pennsylvania. ELBA – Mediterranean island that was the site of Napoleon's first exile. CAEN – World War II battle site in Normandy. ATTU – westernmost island of the Aleutian Islands chain. ASTI – city of Italy known for its sparkling wines. ARLES – city of southern France where van Gogh painted. ARAL – lake of Central Asia that has largely dried up by the 2010s. AMES – city of Iowa that is the home of Iowa State University. AGRA – ancient city of India that is the home of the Taj Mahal. ADAK – westerly island of the Aleutian Islands chain. AARE (or AAR) – tributary of the Rhine in Switzerland. TÍA and TÍO – Spanish for "aunt" and "uncle" respectively. TÊTE – French for "head", as in "tête-à-tête". STE – French abbreviation for " sainte", as in Sault Ste. SRA and SRTA – Spanish abbreviations for " señora" and " señorita" respectively. MLLE and MME – French abbreviations for " Mademoiselle" and " Madame" respectively. MES – French for "my" Spanish for "month". ÎLE – French for "island", as in " Île-de-France". FRAU – German for "woman", "wife" or " Mrs.". ÊTRE – French for "to be", as in " raison d'être". ÉTAT – French for "state", as in " coup d'état". ESTA and ESTO – Spanish feminine and masculine pronouns. ESA and ESO – Spanish feminine and masculine pronouns. EAU (plural: EAUX) – French for "water". ANO (more properly AÑO the tilde is usually ignored) – Spanish for "year". À MOI and À TOI – French for "mine" and "yours" respectively. TOTO – Dorothy's dog in The Wizard of Oz. 
SMEE – Captain Hook's assistant in Peter Pan. ORC – goblinlike species in Middle-earth. OPIE – Ron Howard's character on The Andy Griffith Show. ILSA – Ilsa Lund, Ingrid Bergman's character in Casablanca. 
ISOLDE – medieval character depicted in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. IAGO – Iago, villain of Shakespeare's Othello or Iago, parrot in Disney's Aladdin. EWOK – furry species in the Star Wars universe. Salinger's short story " For Esmé-with Love and Squalor" #MUSE OF HISTORY CROSSWORD CLIE SERIES#
ENOLA – Enola Holmes from the mystery series of the same name.Also Elsa the lioness or Elsa von Brabant. ELSA – princess from the 2013 film Frozen.ANNA – princess from the 2013 film Frozen.AHAB – protagonist of Melville's Moby-Dick.ASTA – dog of Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man movies.For instance, "Et tu, Brute?" might appear in a puzzle's clue sheet as "_, Brute?" Portions of phrases are occasionally used as fill in the blank clues. When applicable, example clues will be denoted in square brackets and answers will be denoted in all caps, e.g. For instance, ITO was occasionally clued in the 1980s and 1990s in reference to dancer Michio Itō and actor Robert Ito then boomed in the late 1990s and 2000s with the rise of judge Lance Ito and has since fallen somewhat, and when it appears today, the clue typically references figure skater Midori Ito or uses the partial phrase "I to" (as in ). The popularity of individual words and names of crosswordese, and the way they are clued, changes over time. According to Marc Romano, "to do well solving crosswords, you absolutely need to keep a running mental list of 'crosswordese', the set of recurring words that constructors reach for whenever they are heading for trouble in a particular section of the grid".
Knowing the language of "crosswordese" is helpful to constructors and solvers alike. Too much crosswordese in a crossword puzzle is frowned upon by cruciverbalists and crossword enthusiasts. Such words are needed in almost every puzzle to some extent. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start and/or end with vowels, abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual combinations of letters, and words consisting almost entirely of frequently used letters. Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation.
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