#crossword

[askzloyxp]

The first 3 words you see are what 2023 will bring you!

#2023 #happy new year #scanword #crossword #astrology

[todays-xkcd]

Also, we would really appreciate it if you could prominently refer to it as an 'eHit'.

Crossword Constructors [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[Cueball is sitting at a table and typing on his laptop. White Hat and Hairbun are standing behind him and looking. The following is written above the characters:] Dear Ms. Swift, Mr. Sheeran, Ms. Minaj, Ms. Grande, and Mr. Weeknd, We are a group of crossword puzzle constructors, and we would like to suggest some titles for your future albums:

Aete

Eni

Oreta

Aroe

Oine

Aen

Enta

Aerae

#xkcd #xkcd 2896 #crossword constructors #crossword #music #pop music #taylor swift #ed sheeran #nicki minaj #ariana grande #the weeknd

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

#crosswords #crossword #twitter #meme #memes #tweets #tweet #funny #lol #humor

[v0rpalsword]

On Calling Out Antisemitism... in the Crossword

So I like to do crosswords. It's fun, sometimes I learn random facts, it exercises my brain, and that jolt of satisfaction when I figure out the gimmick brightens my day. I usually do it on the Washington Post, which is the same as the LA Times, mainly because it's free (though these days I pay for the WP in large part because I like Alexandra Petri's pieces, but I digress.)

So there I am, working on the Sunday crossword at work on a quiet Monday morning, and the clue is "sanctimonious sort." Could be many things, I skip it and continue. Slowly, as I get some of the crosses, I say to myself, "surely this isn't going to be 'pharisee'. I'm gonna be so mad if the answer is 'pharisee.'"

The answer was Pharisee.

If you don't know why that's a problem, in brief: The Pharisees were the precursors to modern Rabbinic Judaism, and that word has been used by those enacting violence upon us for centuries-- throughout blood libels, Inquisition, crusades, expulsions, etc. When "pharisee" means "sanctimonious, hypocritical, self-righteous, etc." and "pharisee" also means "Jew" even of the historic variety, it tends to be extremely bad news for the actual living Jews of whatever era it is.

So I wrote the editors of the LA Times and the Washington Post, and I said so. I told them about the history of the term. I told them that at a time when antisemitism across the United States is rising alarmingly, it is, at best, deeply irresponsible of the newspapers to allow this insidious conflation of Judaism with moral corruption and hypocrisy to appear in what ought to be a light-hearted game.

And you know what? I got a response from the LA Times within hours apologizing for the harm and saying they'd reached out to the crossword writing company to discuss it. I got a response from the acquisitions editor, who had spoken with the crossword editor, conveying their sincere apologies, saying that they were unaware of the antisemitic implications of the term, and they would never intentionally cause harm. They thanked me for bringing it to their attention, and also thanked me for my suggestion of an alternate clue ("Contemporary of Jesus").

We on Jumblr and in the Jewish community offline have spent so much time talking our throats hoarse and our typing fingers sore about the harms of antisemitism, especially since October 7. I know many of us are feeling frustrated, burnt out, and hopeless. We start to wonder what the point is, when none of it seems to be making a dent. I almost didn't send that email. I almost let it go. I let myself be distracted by work, forgot about it for a week or so until something reminded me and I got angry all over again, and then I sent off an email that I expected to be buried in the inbox to maybe get a response in a month or so, because even if it never got read, at least I knew I had written it. But it did get read, and it got shared with the relevant people, and they cared.

Sometimes people listen. Sometimes they learn. Sometimes, all it takes is one person saying "hey, this hurt me."

I'm taking the win today.

#jumblr #antisemetism tw #antisemitism #pharisees #crossword #if you come into my mentions with anything 'well actually' about the pharisees I will block you

[daily-tf2-medic]

Day 87

#daily tf2 medic #tf2 #team fortress 2 #medic tf2 #tf2 medic #tf2 fanart #crossword

[warandpeas]

Crossword Santa

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#chimney #christmas #comic #comic strip #comic strips #comics #Comicstrip #Crossword #Door #elizabeth pich #funny #humor #jonathan kunz #lol #Northpole #Santa #Santa Claus #Sitting by the fire #war and peas #webcomic #webcomics

[balkanparamo]

Francine van Hove - The Crossword

#art #painting #francine van hove #crossword

[theangelshavethephonebox]

Can't stop laughing at this crossword my dad sent me

Image ID under cut

[image ID: a black and white crossword titled "Dalek Crossword". The clues are in a split box at the bottom- across clues on the left, down clues on the right- and read as follows:

Across

2. Rehabilitation programme for non-Dalek species (11)

4. Battle cry of fourth Dalek division (11)

6. To kill with the intention of eradicating demographics within a population (11)

8. Dalek Dwayne's catchphrase from popular teen comedy "Skaro High" (11)

9. Davros's famed foreign policy (11)

10 & 6 Down. Popular Dalek saying: "___________! ___________!" (11, 11)

Down

1. Suggested course of action upon encountering the Doctor (11)

3. Tactic used at Battle of Arcadia (11)

5. Get rid of by destroying completely (11)

6. See 10 Across (11)

7. Exterminate (11)

#dalek #doctor who #crossword #dw #dr who #daleks #davros #the doctor #image described

[peachdoxie]

Absolutely poggers for the 10/22/22 NYT crossword to include the term "aro"!!!

#anecdotes by peachdoxie #new york times #crossword #aromantic #FINALLY #ive seen all of lgbt plus pan but not aro! #i cant recall if ace/asexual has been in the puzzle #but hell yeah #thousand notes

[wishingmyhairred]

The Screaming Staircase Crossword

Lockwood & Co Book One: The Screaming Staircase Crossword Puzzle

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Also found on Pinterest board

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https://www.tumblr.com/wishingmyhairred/739333001261072384/answer-key-to-the-screaming-staircase-crossword?source=share

And check out TSS Word Search too

#lockwood and co #lockwood & co #save lockwood and co #the screaming staircase #crossword #save lockwood & co

[mamoru-chiba-ua]

#anime fanart #onepiece fanart #one piece fanart #crossword #crossover #star trek #star trek tos #one piece buggy #captain buggy #shanks buggy #buggy #buggy the clown #op buggy #shanks x buggy #one piece shanks #red haired shanks #shanks #shuggy #akagamiyonko #akagami no shanks #one piece au #star trek au #traditional drawing #star trek the original series #star trek the final frontier #star trek fandom #star trek fanart #star trek universe #star trek imagine #anime boy

[ftvs-cm45]

Ghostfriends Theme Song

#disney #the ghost and molly mcgee #tgamm #animated gif #tgamm spoilers #tgamm season 2 #tgamm s2 #molly mcgee #scratch the ghost #libby stein torres #ollie chen #chips #snakes #book #dancing #hitting your head #bikes #clumsy #crossword puzzle #crossword #ghosts #churros #old tv #birds #binoculars #tgamm jinx #geoff tgamm #tgamm jeff #portal

[copperbadge]

When I mentioned I was feeling a bit apathetic about my usual phone games and apps, therapist (I should give her a nickname of some kind) suggested rotating in a new puzzle or game for a dopamine hit, so I thought I might go back to "Diagramless" crosswords, which is where you do a normal crossword but without any of the dark spaces or numbers. I used to do the normal crossword but when you've been doing crosswords since the age of 15 they stop being very challenging after a while.

The problem is that because diagramless or skeleton crosswords are more difficult, they're not readily available, like I couldn't just go out and buy a book of them; there was one Chicago paper that would print them but they were cribbing the clues from the LA Times and anyway that only worked when I was stealing the paper from my workplace years ago.

My workaround was to create a 15-square grid in Excel, print that out, and do them by hand (more satisfying anyway) using clues from the LA Times crossword that I copy-pasted in. I stopped doing diagramless basically because just acquiring them was slightly more work than I wanted to be doing on a regular basis. (If anyone knows of a phone app that offers them, or a book of them I could buy, sing out.)

Anyway all was going well; above you can see the first two I did, and while I'm obviously rusty it's very satisfying to just do one, let alone complete them. I didn't bring very many with me while traveling but I was doing today's and something seemed...very off. It took me about four lines in and several headscratchers to realize that the puzzle clues were randomly and unusually for a 16 square crossword and I was trying to cram them into a 15 square grid.

Insert old joke here about "You aren't allowed to do crosswords anymore when you can do them entirely wrong" etc etc

Personally I blame Dan and Doug who designed it, and Patti who let it through, but on the other hand "Dan Doug and Patti" is a great name for a folk trio so I can't be too mad.

[ID: Several images of a printed 15-square grid filled out by hand with both crossword clue answers but also the squares and numbers that give the puzzle structure; the third image is only partially filled and clearly full of errors, and the last image is of the actual LA Times puzzle pattern, showing that there are 16 squares instead of 15. This never used to happen.]

#sam has adhd #crossword #crosswords #puzzles #god dammit LA times why don't you just offer an option to remove the numbers and blanks #daniel and doug I curse you to be unable to find good coffee for two days #patti i curse you to have bad coffee spilled on you at least once by dan or doug #not yet fired from therapy

[zozoru]

cold-induced shitpost

#cirno #touhou #crossword #puzzles #parody

[soongtypehuman]

Star Trek Crossword Puzzle

No regular post today (I'll talk about it in another post), but I did make this. It's fun. It's silly. It's Trek. It's TNG-themed. Enjoy! If you want more, let me know because this was honestly pretty fun to make.

#star trek #star trek the next generation #st tng #star trek tng #crossword

[high-quality-tiktoks]

I have never in my entire career seen such a clear and explicit hate symbol incorporated into a design. The NYT has done this on purpose.

#video #tiktok #tiktoks #story time #new york times #antisemitism #wtf #crossword #nomeatmashers