ORNAMENTING is weird in the gerund form, and contributes to this puzzle's overall -ING problem: SETT ING FREE near ORNAMENT ING crossing E-SIGN ING crossing TIR ING (we'll let G INGER slide.).
The only "order!" I've ever heard used is "AT EASE!" STAND AT EASE is something you do after the order, I guess, but it doesn't feel like an order (exclamation point!). Do they really say the whole thing like that. And " STAND AT EASE" is really badly clued. Hard to like something like TELESCOPIUM, which sounds more like an element than a constellation, and anyway I have no idea what that is or what stars are in it or anything. The Acrosses in there seem fine–I really like " HE STARTED IT!," and I'm not sure I would've gotten good traction at all without CINCINNATUS-but the Downs are less appealing. What I usually feel, and feel today, is that a few of the answers are nice and some are OK and others feel weak or obscure or jury-rigged in some way.
I always feel like I'm meant to ooh and / or aah at these Saturday puzzles with wide-open centers like this, where lots of long answers intersect. Thus was built the Triple Entente coalition that fought World War I.Īt the start of World War I in 1914, all three Triple Entente members entered it as Allied Powers against the Central Powers: Ottoman Turkey, Germany and Austria-Hungary. On September 4, 1914, the Triple Entente issued a declaration undertaking not to conclude a separate peace and only to demand terms of peace agreed between the three parties. Historians continue to debate the importance of the alliance system as one of the causes of World War I. Britain encouraged the Russo-Japanese rapprochement. Japan wanted to raise a loan in Paris, so France made the loan contingent on a Russo-Japanese agreement and a Japanese guarantee for France's strategically vulnerable possessions in Indochina. The Franco-Japanese Treaty of 1907 was a key part of building a coalition as France took the lead in creating alliances with Japan, Russia, and (informally) with Britain. The Triple Entente, unlike the Triple Alliance or the Franco-Russian Alliance itself, was not an alliance of mutual defence. It formed a powerful counterweight to the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. It was built upon the Franco-Russian Alliance of 1894, the Entente Cordiale of 1904 between Paris and London, and the Anglo-Russian Entente of 1907. The Triple Entente (from French entente meaning "friendship, understanding, agreement") describes the informal understanding between the Russian Empire, the French Third Republic, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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