Crossword-Solution: THIRTEENS
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
EATGA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with THIRTEENS (5)
The river fish are almost the same as in the Netherlands, comprising salmon, sturgeon, twelves, thirteens, shad, carp, perch, pike, trout, roach, thickhead, suckers, sunfish, eel, nine-eyes or lampreys, both much more abundant and larger than in the Netherlands, besides many other valuable fish which we are unable to name.
The number of the day required is readily ascertained by adding together the number of the day counted from and the number of days to be counted, casting out the thirteens when the sum exceeds this number (excepting where the remainder is thirteen); thus: 1 + 14 - 13 = 2, the number of the day Ezanab given above.
Adding together the pairs and casting out the thirteens, thus, III + 16 - 13 = VI; VI + 16 - 13 = IX; IX + 16 - 13 = XII; XII + 16 - 13 - 13 = II, we find the last red number, which is wanting in both copies of the codex, to be II, whereas, according to the theory advanced, it should be III.
Adding these and casting out the thirteens, we have this result: XIII + 13 - 13 = XIII; XIII + 20 + 18 - 13 - 13 - 13 = XII; XII + 13 - 13 = XII.
Adding together the numbers and casting out the thirteens, thus, XIII + 9 - 13 = IX; IX + 5 - 13 = I, &c., the connection is seen to be regular.
Quotes with THIRTEENS (1)
I have dozens of loyal fans! Baker's dozens! …they come in thirteens.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1952–1996).