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OLIO (OH-lee-oh)

1. English name for a Spanish stew also known as Olla podrida

2. A miscellaneous mixture of elements, especially artistic works

Common clues: Mixture; Hodgepodge; Stew; Miscellany; Pastiche; Mishmash; Mixed bag; Potpourri; Medley; This and that; Melange; Spicy stew; Salmagundi

Related crosswordese: Olla

Crossword puzzle frequency: 10 times a year

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A pastiche of comic strip imagery from 1930-2000. [Courtesy: Michael Delahunt]


A work is called pastiche if it was cobbled together in imitation of several original works. As the Oxford English Dictionary puts it, a pastiche in this sense is "a medley of various ingredients; a hotchpotch, farrago, jumble." This meaning accords with etymology: pastiche is the French version of Italian pasticcio, which designated a kind of pie made of many different ingredients.


In the 18th century, opera pasticcios were frequently made by composers as notable as George Frideric Handel, Christoph Willibald Gluck, and Johann Christian Bach. These composite works would take various portions of scores by other composers and recombine them, changing words and adapting freely.



This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Pastiche".  



OLIO (476) 94 Tu >1 08 Hodgepodge HASH MESS STEW

49 We >1 09 Mixed bag

44 Tu+ >1 09 Mishmash MESS STEW

34 We- >1 08 Potpourri STEW

28 Tu+ >1 00 Medley

28 Tu >1 04 Miscellany

20 We+ >1 09 This and that BOTH

14 Tu+ >1 06 Mixture HASH MELD

13 We+ >1 03 Melange

12 We- >1 04 Pastiche

08 Spicy stew OLLA

10 We- >1 99 Assortment

10 We- >1 04 Gallimaufry

9 We+ >1 09 Mélange

7 We+ >1 07 A little of this, a little of that

7 >1 01 Musical medley

7 We- LAT 06 Varied mixture

6 We- >1 99 Conglomeration

6 Th >1 08 Grab bag

6 We >1 03 Omnium-gatherum

5 Th- >1 09 Eclectic mix

5 Th- >1 07 Salmagundi

4 We+ >1 06 Crazy quilt

4 Th- >1 06 Miscellaneous mixture

4 Th+ >1 08 Mix MELD STIR