But the "First character in Genesis," then, was a stumper.
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What else was a stumper, as far as the one-offs?
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It's an eternal stumper; there are serious cons on either side.
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But the biggest stumper of all: how is it that he's suddenly speaking fluent Spanish?
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Solvers of last week's Saturday Stumper (in Newsday) got a big hint for 56-Across.
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I put that question to several historians and they found it to be a real stumper.
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In the melting pot that is the big wide world, "Who am I?" is the ultimate stumper.
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And in any given session, a stumper might come along that wipes out a huge number of players.
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But not long ago, an executive from Japan called with a stumper: Where, he asked, are the dancing clubs?
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This week's solver stumper is a great example of how a crossword puzzle entry can be "freshened" for new generations.
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Other stars shared their support of protest efforts, including longtime Clinton stumper Katy Perry, who wrote, "PEACEFULLY PROTEST," in a tweet.
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I can see how this one could really be a stumper; and according to Mr. Eaton-Salners's notes, there were some solving aids added.
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I debuted HAMANTASCHEN in a Newsday Saturday Stumper a few years ago, and lately I've been trying to work RUGELACH into a themeless grid.
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I felt like I had something to offer if we could talk ... but if they don't have a physical voice, it was a real stumper.
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I'm positive that I glossed over this word a dozen times in the past, but today it was a major stumper because SIGILS was so difficult as well.
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Today's puzzle has a lot of personality in the fill as well as the theme, which makes for a good Sunday — everywhere I looked there was a stumper, a fun clue, a misdirect, or some infernal pop culture reference that I wasn't cool enough to get.
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Mr. Newman, who is the editor of the Newsday puzzles (including the Saturday Stumper, purported to be one of the hardest crosswords in the business), is known for his pristine, sparkling fill and devious cluing, so it was a delight to see his byline on my Friday puzzle.
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Ed Clemons was an insurance company salesman and former high school football star who became coach of his former team the Stumper Mustangs, located in Stumper, Texas. Episodes follow the challenges that Ed faces as he attempts to transform a losing team into state champions.
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The Final Stumper was played with all seven of the game board's monitors, with the letters S-T-U-M-P-E-R displayed in them. The object was to bank a set amount of money without finding a stop sign, at which point the round ended. The Final Stumper was played two different ways.
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If a team could not solve the Super Stumper after all seven spaces were revealed, the opposing team had one final chance to solve it. Whichever team solved two out of three Super Stumpers became champion and won with a chance to win more in the bonus round. Originally, solving a Super Stumper won the team that did so and the right to play the bonus round. If a Super Stumper went unsolved, a new one was played for more and play continued until one of the teams solved one.
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The rules were later changed to have the bonus round played after a team won two games, and if the teams could not solve a Super Stumper, a shortened round was played. The teams chose spaces one at a time, starting with the team that won the previous jump-in, and did so until one solved the Super Stumper.
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If the panel received eight "no" answers, they were stumped and the contestant won a grand prize package (dubbed the "Super Stumper Jackpot").
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Bumper Stumpers featured two teams, one usually a returning champion pair. The teams' goal was to correctly solve the Super Stumper, a puzzle designed to resemble a vanity license plate that consisted of seven spaces. At the beginning of each game, host Dubois would tell the teams whom or what the plate belonged to, and the first space was revealed. In order to begin filling in the spaces in the Super Stumper, the teams played a series of jump-in questions.
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The first bonus round featured two separate rounds. The first half saw the players trying to identify up to seven plates within 30 seconds. Getting seven won and ended the round immediately. As long as the team identified at least one plate, they moved on to the second half of the round dubbed the Final Stumper.
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In 1955, she was assigned the 'Sunday stumper'. This was the first of 9 Sunday puzzles she would author for the Times. At age 95, she became the oldest known crossword puzzle writer for The New York Times. She subsequently broke her own record by being published in the Times at age 96, 97, 98 99, and again at age 100.
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Renowned for his reliability and stamina, Stockwell played every position during his career apart from Goalkeeper. His nickname "Stumper" was given to him by Sir Bobby Robson after he stumped Robson out during a cricket match. He was released in 2000 and both Norwich City and Colchester United attempted to sign Stockwell. He looked set to sign for Ipswich's local rivals Norwich however the deal collapsed after he was made to wait an extra week by Norwich before signing.
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It was recorded at Studio Enterprise, produced by Frans Hagenaars, and released in 1999 on independent record label Excelsior Recordings. The album functioned as the soundtrack to a book of the same title and both were based on Talma's childhood memories and his early student years in Groningen. In early 2001 the band recorded Leave stumper with Frans Hagenaars taking the production chair once again. The album was released in November and contained a special CD booklet with illustrations from Gummbah and Jeroen de Leijer.
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Originally, the player who buzzed in and correctly identified the plate to solve could decide to either let his/her partner play or challenge their opponents to solve the plate. That rule was dropped after far more contestants opted to play rather than pass. The winners of the jump-in chose one of the remaining blank spaces to fill in on the Super Stumper, then were given five seconds to try to come up with the solution. Coming up with the solution won the game.
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Dighe made his First-class debut for Mumbai cricket team against Gujarat cricket team during the 1990–91 Ranji Trophy season where he scored 107 runs and finished season with 440 runs in 6 innings at an average of 73.33 with one half-century and two hundreds. He played 58 matches for Mumbai cricket team in which he took 176 catches and did 23 stumping's and scored 3,054 runs.Sameer Dighe: 8 interesting things to know about the former Indian stumper He was also captain for 1999–00 Ranji Trophy.
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His highest first-class score was 89, which was also Western Province's highest score in the match against Natal in 1955-56. Against the New Zealanders in 1961-62 he made 81 not out (Western Province's highest score in the match) and 25 not out, hitting hard and excelling in his footwork, his strokes through mid-wicket and his late cutting.John Reid, Sword of Willow, A. H. & A. W. Reed, Wellington, 1962, pp. 170–71. In 1960-61 he was the leading stumper in South Africa, executing seven stumpings, most of them off the leg- spin bowling of John Commins.
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In Super Stumpers, the object for the contestant was to correctly guess the subject of stumpers with the celebrity giving clues. This time, the idea was to give clues that would be more helpful in guessing the subject instead of being ones that would be less helpful. The celebrity was shown three clue words and one at a time would relay them to the contestant until the contestant correctly solved the stumper or all three words were exhausted. In order to receive another of the clue words, the contestant had to say "clue"; giving one without being asked forfeited the chance at the jackpot.
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He played as a middle-order batsman and wicketkeeper in eight matches in 1928 and 1929, and against Essex at Leyton in 1928, scored 57 and 75, the second innings being the highest of his first-class career. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in its review of Glamorgan's 1928 season expressed the view that "Jones may become the regular stumper". But early in the 1929 season Jones lost his place in the side to Trevor Every and he never regained it. He played two first-class matches for the Wales side in 1929, but then played local cricket in South Wales before becoming coach at Denstone College and later a publican in Staffordshire.
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Wisden 1977, p. 1046. He worked for many years as a schoolmaster. Martineau's notable works on cricket include Bat, Ball, Wicket and All (1950), on the history of cricket implements; They Made Cricket (1956), on innovators in cricket from 1727 up to the first television broadcast in 1938; The Valiant Stumper, on the history of wicket-keeping; and The Field is Full of Shades (1946), on early cricketers in the period before 1800. John Arlott wrote that Martineau's "sympathy with his subject is sufficiently clear-headed to enable him to write of the early cricketers without sentimentality but with an understanding rarely equalled since Nyren".
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At The Quarry Euclid, a dump truck, explains how he brings rocks from the quarry, and takes them to a rock Crusher, turning them into gravel. A gravel conveyor and an unnamed, female front-end loader also explain about how they work in these tasks for moving the gravel and rocks around. 3\. In The City Little Mac, a small municipal pickup truck, takes viewers out onto the streets of Toronto to show how the city streets are cleaned and washed. The featured machines that do this include a street sweeper named Dusty who cleans the roads through song, a vacuum truck named Vacuum Vic who cleans out sewers, a street sprinkler named Gusher that sprays water on the pavement, a stumper that obliterates stumps, and a tree trimmer named Stretch with a chipper, all of which are to prepare the streets every morning for traffic.
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