![]() However, in late March 1983, Apple managed to license the rights to the name and in 1986 purchased the trademark outright. When Apple attempted to trademark the name Macintosh in 1982, the request was denied because it phonetically infringed on the trademark already owned by McIntosh Laboratory, which operated at the very high end of the high-fidelity food chain. Haplessly, the slight spelling change was not enough to keep Apple in the clear. So he used the spelling Macintosh, figuring that even if it conflicted with the overcoat, still nobody would care. He thought that that would lead them to a conflict with McIntosh Laboratory, the hi-fi manufacturer. As per Raskin, he intentionally changed the spelling from McIntosh to Macintosh as the former is the name of the apple. In naming the Macintosh, Raskin set Apple on course for a legal tussle. Apple had to compromise on the name due to trademark issues. The only reason they wanted to spell it that way was because it was a reference to the project creator, Jef Raskin, as the McIntosh variety was his favourite kind of apple. The fruit has red and green skin, a tart flavour and tender white flesh, which ripens in late September. Now McIntosh, or colloquially the Mac, is an apple cultivar – the national apple of Canada. decided that they wanted to use the name McIntosh. It was the first successful mass-market all-in-one desktop personal computer with a graphical user interface, built-in screen, and mouse. The Apple Macintosh, later rebranded as the Macintosh 128K, is the original Apple Macintosh personal computer that was introduced by a television commercial entitled ‘1984’ shown during Super Bowl XVIII on Januand directed by Ridley Scott. ‘Macintosh’, the answer to the clue of 14d, provided two definitions, the second being the product of Apple Inc. ‘Bacillus’ was later amended by Ferdinand Cohn to further describe them as spore-forming, Gram-positive, aerobic or facultative anaerobic bacteria. He had seven years earlier named the genus ‘bacterium’. The genus ‘bacillus’ was named in 1835 by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg to contain rod-shaped ‘bacillus’ bacteria. The endospore of one species from Morocco is reported to have survived being heated to 420 ☌. ‘Bacillus’ can reduce themselves to oval endospores and can remain in this dormant state for years. Cultured ‘bacillus’ species test positive for the enzyme catalase if oxygen has been used or is present. ‘Bacillus’ species can be either obligate aerobes which are dependent on oxygen or facultative anaerobes which can survive even in the absence of oxygen. The term is also used to describe the other rod-shaped bacteria and the plural ‘bacilli’ is the name given to the class of bacteria to which this genus belongs. It is a genus of Gram-positive, rod shaped bacteria, a member of the phylum ‘bacillota’, with 266 named species. ‘Bacillus’ has come from the Latin word that means ‘stick’. The domain of ‘bacillus’ is ‘bacteria’, phylum is ‘bacillota’, class is ‘bacilli’, order is ‘bacillales’, family is ‘bacillaceae’ and genus is ‘bacillus’. I discovered that the scientific classification of ‘bacillus’, the singular version of ‘bacilli’, has all its levels starting with the letter ‘b’. ‘Bacilli’, the answer to the clue of 18a, made me inquisitive to know more about them so I turned to the net. There was also a solitary ‘I from the clue’. There were some clues, namely, 11a, 25a, 3d, 7d, 19d and 22d, where ‘A from the clue’ happened to be part of wordplays 19d alone being unique in the sense that it directed the solvers to use ‘A from the clue’ twice. In addition to this, part of wordplays in 6a and 21a and the wordplay in 20a were also in plural. ![]() There were several clues in which the definitions were in plural, such as 9a, 16a, 18a, 21a and 3d. ‘Plurality’ and ‘A from the clue’ were the hallmarks of this puzzle. A friendly and very straightforward Saturday puzzle from X-Type that I enjoyed solving and thereafter writing a review of the same for your kind perusal and precious feedback. This puzzle was published on 22 nd Apr 2023īD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment **** Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30281 A full review by Rahmat Ali
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