So, I got this crossword clue the other day that said “divination.” I thought, “What the heck is that?” I mean, I’ve heard the word, but I couldn’t really tell you what it means. It was in the LA Times puzzle, which my grandpa always does. He’s a smart guy, but he was stumped too!
I decided to get to the bottom of this. I started digging around on the internet, you know, the usual – just typing stuff into the search bar. I found out that there are tons of answers for this clue. One website said there were like 40 possible answers in their database. Forty! That’s a lot, right?
Another site was a bit less overwhelming – it only had one clue for a ten-letter answer. Still didn’t help me much though.
Then I saw something that caught my eye. It was a page that said it had 25 possible answers, and it let you narrow it down if you already knew some of the letters. That’s kind of how you do a crossword anyway, right? You fill in the ones you know, and it helps you figure out the others.
- I kept on searching and found another site with 21 answers for “divination” and mentioned that a further 50 clues may be related. These sites keep saying “Try to search our Crossword Dictionary.”
- Then I learned that “divination” is basically trying to predict the future or figure out secret stuff using, like, supernatural powers.
- Another site said that the most common answer was “AUGURY,” which is six letters long.
- Oh, and I also found out that the New York Times crossword gets harder as the week goes on. Like, Monday is the easiest, and Saturday is the hardest. Good to know!
I saw that “OCTET” and “OCTAD” are often used when the clue is about a group of eight things.
And, just for fun, I looked up some other words that mean the same as “enormous.” Turns out there are a bunch: “colossal,” “gigantic,” “huge,” “immense,” and “mammoth.”
So, yeah, that’s what I did today.
It’s kind of amazing how much you can learn just from one little crossword clue. I went from not knowing what “divination” meant to learning about crossword strategies, synonyms, and even a little bit about predicting the future. Who knew?
