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Possible Answers: ISLE, KEY, ISLET, AIT, CAY, CANINES, EYOT.
Last seen on: –LA Times Crossword 11 Jul 21, Sunday
–Irish Times Simplex – Sep 15 2020
–NY Times Crossword 25 Jun 20, Thursday
–Irish Times Simplex – Dec 21 2019
–LA Times Crossword 10 Sep 19, Tuesday
–Irish Times Simplex – Jul 31 2019
–The Sun – Two Speed Crossword – Jul 16 2019
–Irish Times Simplex – May 20 2019
–Irish Times Simplex – Nov 13 2018
–Canadiana Crossword – Sep 17 2018
–Thomas Joseph – King Feature Syndicate Crossword – Jul 2 2018
Random information on the term “KEY”:
A cay (/ˈkiː/ or /ˈkeɪ/), also spelled caye or key, is a small, low-elevation, sandy island on the surface of a coral reef. Cays occur in tropical environments throughout the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans (including in the Caribbean and on the Great Barrier Reef and Belize Barrier Reef).
A cay forms when ocean currents transport loose sediment across the surface of a reef to a depositional node, where the current slows or converges with another current, releasing its sediment load. Gradually, layers of deposited sediment build up on the reef surface. Such nodes occur in windward or leeward areas of reef where surfaces sometimes occur around an emergent outcrop of old reef or beach rock.
The island resulting from sediment accumulation is made up almost entirely of biogenic sediment – the skeletal remains of plants and animals – from the surrounding reef ecosystems. If the accumulated sediments are predominantly sand, then the island is called a cay; if they are predominantly gravel, the island is called a motu.
Random information on the term “AIT”:
An ait (pronounced /eɪt/, like “eight”) or eyot (pronounced /aɪət/, /aɪt/, or /eɪt/) is a small island. It is especially used to refer to river islands found on the River Thames and its tributaries in England.
Aits are typically formed by the deposit of sediment in the water, which accumulates over a period of time. An ait is characteristically long and narrow, and may become a permanent island. However, aits may also be eroded: the resulting sediment is deposited further downstream and could result in another ait. A channel with numerous aits is called a braided channel.
Although not common in 21st-century English, “ait” or “eyot” appears in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Charles Dickens’ Bleak House, and Thackeray’s Vanity Fair.
Joyce Cary used “eyot” in The Horse’s Mouth – “Sun was in the bank. Streak of salmon below. Salmon trout above soaking into wash blue. River whirling along so fast that its skin was pulled into wrinkles like silk dragged over the floor. Shot silk. Fresh breeze off the eyot. Sharp as spring frost. Ruffling under the silk-like muscles in a nervous horse. Ruffling under my grief like ice and hot daggers.”
Random information on the term “CAY”:
Cay is a stratovolcano in the South Volcanic Zone of the Andes in Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region, Chile. The volcano is located 15 km northeast of the larger Maca Volcano and about 230 km of the Chile Trench at the intersection of NW-SE and NE-SW faults of the Liquiñe-Ofqui Fault Zone. The volcano is composed from basalt and dacite and there is no evidence of Holocene activity. Below 1000m, several parasitic cones lie on the southwest flank of the volcano.