“The Crown” is a historical drama produced for Netflix that covers the life of British Queen Elizabeth II from her marriage to Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. In the UK, the plural of penny is “pence”, whereas we have “pennies” in our pockets. The official name of our smallest denomination coin is “cent”, and our use of the word “penny” is just a colloquialism derived from the British coin of the same name. 40 Economizing, as represented twice in 12-Down? : PINCHING PENNIES (pinching two “CENT”s) Highly unpopular (with the “wet” movement), Prohibition was repealed in 1933 by the 21st Amendment. The 18th Amendment to the US Constitution was a great victory for the temperance movement (the “dry” movement), and in 1919 ushered in the Prohibition era. The term “emcee” comes from “MC”, an initialism used for a Master or Mistress of Ceremonies. Astin is the son of actress Patty Duke, and the adopted son of actor John Astin (of “The Addams Family” fame). You might also have seen him playing Lynn McGill in the 5th season of “24”. Sean Astin is best known for playing the title role in the 1993 film “Rudy” and the character Samwise Gamgee in “The Lord of the Rings” movies. Facebook acquired WhatsApp in 2014, paying over $19 billion. Launched in 2011, WhatsApp is incredibly popular, and indeed the most popular messaging service used today. WhatsApp is a popular messaging service used on smartphones that sends messages and other files from one mobile phone number to another. One is a shower of ice pellets that are smaller than hail, and the second is a mixture of rain and snow, with the snow melting as it falls. 20 Bad flight forecast : SLEETĪpparently, “sleet” is a term used to describe two different weather conditions. Blue and yellow are the national colors of Sweden, where IKEA was founded and is headquartered. The IKEA furniture stores use the colors blue and yellow for brand recognition. Cleverly, a McFlurry is mixed on a machine with the mixing blade then doubling as a spoon with which one eats it. A McFlurry is made from soft-serve ice cream, to which are added crushed candy bars or cookies. 18 McFlurry mix-in : OREOĪ McFlurry is an ice cream dessert served in McDonald’s restaurants. In that Paris disco, non-stop music was played using two turntables next to a dance-floor, and this concept spread around the world. One famous Paris discotheque was called “Whiskey a Gogo”. After the war, these clubs came out into the open. American-style music (like jazz and jitterbug dances) was banned by the Nazis, so French natives met in underground clubs that they called discotheques where records were often played on just a single turntable. 17 Where dancers have a ball? : DISCOĭiscotheques first appeared during WWII in Occupied France. These days TCBY stands for “The Country’s Best Yogurt”. The acronym TCBY originally stood for “This Can’t Be Yogurt”, but this had to be changed due to a lawsuit being pressed by a competitor called “I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt”. TCBY is a chain of stores selling frozen yogurt that was founded in 1981 in Little Rock, Arkansas. 8 Restaurant competitor of Pinkberry and Sweet Frog : TCBY The idea behind the expression “to wig out”, meaning “to go crazy”, is that there is so much going on in your brain that it might “lift your hair/wig”. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Across
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