![]() Why not? Just know that it's leaves that are being read, not a single leaf. a new place to drink tea." I just found out that "tasseomancy" is also known as "tasseography," "tasseology," and "tassology," so add those to your wordlists too, I guess. ![]() It's a sweet word, I'd love to see it in the grid itself, but the fact remains, if I found one giant TEA LEAF in the bottom of my cup, there'd be only one possible fate in store for me: "You will be finding. tasseomancy = " TEA LEAF reading"), but the way the clue is phrased here. You can, of course, use "TEA LEAF" adjectivally (i.e. is doubtful, improbable, borderline fantastical. One leaf? One? "Tasseomancy" has the French word for (tea) cup right in it, so if you are reading what's at the bottom of the cup (which you are) then a single TEA LEAF. Oh wait, I have one other: who ever heard of reading a single TEA LEAF (30D: What's read in tasseomancy). I got my one real objection to this puzzle off my chest, right up front. I think I have largely phased "crap" (and its assorted variations) out of my life, as it feels like a euphemism that has somehow over time come to sound more vulgar than the thing it's a euphemism for (namely shit). I think "shit-ton" (hyphenated) is probably what I'd say soonest, of the whole lot, followed by "shitload" (unhyphenated). there are issues with whether you do or don't include a hyphen in your search term). Actually I don't care that much, but those are the expressions that feel right to me, and they both google better than their oppositely-suffixed counterparts (well, "crap-ton" does. Look, it's a SHIT- LOAD and a CRAP- TON and I will die on this (filthy) hill! ( 32D: Crazy amount => CRAPLOAD). ![]() Today, the content is created by a shared editorial team and the website uses the same media brand as the printed magazine. According to The Economist, Der Spiegelis one of continental Europe's most influential magazines. The news website by the same name was launched in 1994 under the name Spiegel Online with an independent editorial staff. It has played a key role in uncovering many political scandals such as the Spiegel affair in 1962 and the Flick affair in the 1980s. "The Mirror") is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. With a weekly circulation of 695,100 copies, it was the largest such publication in Europe in 2011. It was founded in 1947 by John Seymour Chaloner, a British army officer, and Rudolf Augstein, a former Wehrmacht radio operator who was recognized in 2000 by the International Press Institute as one of the fifty World Press Freedom Heroes. Typically, the magazine has a content to advertising ratio of 2:1.ĭer Spiegel is known in German-speaking countries mostly for its investigative journalism.
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