…a feature which appears daily on page three of the Sun newspaper, comprising a picture of a topless young woman…
…win a particular sporting championship three times, especially consecutively…
…(of an electric generator, motor, or other device) designed to supply or use simultaneously three separate alternating currents of the same voltage, but with phases differing by a third of a period…
…consisting of three separate and complementary items, in particular:…
…(especially of accommodation or service) given three stars in a grading system in which this denotes a high class or quality, being one grade below four-star…
…three successive hurrahs shouted to express appreciation or congratulation…
…containing a chromosomal complement from a mother and father and the mitochondrial DNA from the egg of a donor…
…consisting of three quarters of something in terms of size, length, time, etc.…
…glacier-covered volcanic peaks in west central Oregon, in the Cascade Range, in a noted wilderness area…
…a US comedy team, comprising various partners from the early 1930s to 1970. The most popular trio (1934–46) were Moe Howard (born Moses Horwitz) (1897–1975), Curly Howard (Moe’s brother; born Jerome Lester Horwitz) (1903–52), and Larry Fine (born Louis Feinberg) (1902–75). The Stooges' nearly 200 movie shorts include Men in Black (1934), Hold That Lion! (1947), and Quiz Whizz (1958)…
…legislation which makes an offender’s third felony punishable by life imprisonment or other severe sentence…
…reading, writing, and arithmetic, regarded as the fundamentals of learning…
…a game, traditionally associated with confidence tricksters, in which bets are made on which is the queen among three cards lying face downwards…
…(in the UK) a written notice, underlined three times to denote urgency, to members of a political party to attend a parliamentary vote…
…the outer boundary of the area extending 3 miles (4.8 km) out to sea from the coast of a state or country, considered to be within its jurisdiction…
…a method of turning a vehicle round in a narrow space by moving forwards, backwards, and forwards again in a sequence of arcs…
…three of the four equal parts into which something may be divided…
…the three, four, etc., most important or powerful figures in a particular field…
…the three largest industrialized economies (the US, Germany, and Japan)…
…a method of finding a number in the same ratio to a given number as exists between two other given numbers…
…a race run by pairs of people, one member of each pair having their left leg tied to the right leg of the other…
…a landing of an aircraft on the two main wheels and the tailwheel or skid simultaneously…
…a means of reproducing natural colours by combining photographic images in the three primary colours…
…a type of billiards in which the cue ball must strike one object ball and three or more cushions before the second object ball…
…an island in the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, site of a nuclear power station. In 1979 an accident caused damage to the reactor core, provoking strong reactions against the nuclear industry in the US…
…victory achieved by winning the majority of a specified odd number of games…
…a book of the Apocrypha, telling of three Hebrew exiles thrown into a furnace by Nebuchadnezzar…
…two people, especially lovers, should be left alone together…
…(in Greek mythology) three beautiful goddesses (Aglaia, Thalia, and Euphrosyne) believed to personify and bestow charm, grace, and beauty…
…the sum of three pence, especially before decimalization (1971)…
