Talk:2896: Crossword Constructors - Revision history

ConscriptGlossary at 08:30, 4 July 2024

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I think this is the timestamp you needed...

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I really should read the article before commenting ...

172.71.103.169: Crosswordese

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Crosswordese

172.70.214.43 at 22:08, 22 February 2024

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172.70.90.172 at 09:11, 22 February 2024

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172.70.91.211 at 23:49, 21 February 2024

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	:Mr Weeknd is usually the result of overindulgence on the Friday night.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.172\|172.70.90.172]] 09:11, 22 February 2024 (UTC)		:Mr Weeknd is usually the result of overindulgence on the Friday night.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.172\|172.70.90.172]] 09:11, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
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		+	If you come across this situation while making crosswords, you may try using shift cipher as an alternative. [[User:ConscriptGlossary\|ConscriptGlossary]] ([[User talk:ConscriptGlossary\|talk]]) 08:30, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

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 For a quick overlook, Search Engine "NY Times Crossword", images.
 https://www.google.com/search?q=ny+times+crossword&tbm=isch
-The NY Times puzzles are as dense as commonly seen in the US. Much simpler puzzles abound, and brain-busters can be found, but the NYT puzzles are very typical well-done puzzles. --[[User:PRR|PRR]] ([[User talk:PRR|talk]]) 20:05, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
+The NY Times puzzles are as dense as commonly seen in the US. Much simpler puzzles abound, and brain-busters can be found, but the NYT puzzles are very typical well-done puzzles. --[[User:PRR|PRR]] ([[User talk:PRR|talk]]) 00:36, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
 :I was looking around the internet for an example, and I found this example: https://www.50plus.de/spiele/raetsel/kreuzwortraetsel-1.html
 :If this is what you are talking about, Games World of Puzzles calls this a "Pencil Pointer" puzzle. I think technically the name is "Swedish Style" according to Wikipedia. They aren't typically the kind you'd find in an :American newspaper, but I do see them on occasion.

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 For a quick overlook, Search Engine "NY Times Crossword", images.
 https://www.google.com/search?q=ny+times+crossword&tbm=isch
-The NY Times puzzles are as dense as commonly seen in the US. Much simpler puzzles abound, and brain-busters can be found, but the NYT puzzles are very typical well-done puzzles.
+The NY Times puzzles are as dense as commonly seen in the US. Much simpler puzzles abound, and brain-busters can be found, but the NYT puzzles are very typical well-done puzzles. --[[User:PRR|PRR]] ([[User talk:PRR|talk]]) 20:05, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
 :I was looking around the internet for an example, and I found this example: https://www.50plus.de/spiele/raetsel/kreuzwortraetsel-1.html
 :If this is what you are talking about, Games World of Puzzles calls this a "Pencil Pointer" puzzle. I think technically the name is "Swedish Style" according to Wikipedia. They aren't typically the kind you'd find in an :American newspaper, but I do see them on occasion.

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 #...or both? Being only a(n unskilled) ''doer'' of crosswords, not usually a compiler of them, I might well be missing the details that someone deeper into crossword-lore takes for granted.  [[Special:Contributions/172.69.195.143|172.69.195.143]] 02:01, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
 :Most likely Cueball and friends are constructing American-style crosswords and want to use ORETA, ENTA, and similar words as answers in their puzzles, so that they could clue them with "2024 Nicki Minaj album", for example. (I imagine that when John Lennon entered into his second marriage, crossword constructors of America rejoiced since they now had a well-known person that they could use as a clue for ONO.) Since the letters in their proposed album titles are common, I doubt that a cryptic crossword constructor would be hoping for such "words" to exist so that they could use them in clues. --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.150|108.162.216.150]] 04:06, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
 :My initial reading was that these were awkward series of letters that appear within words that they're otherwise struggling to find clues for, but I guess why not all three.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.24|141.101.99.24]] 09:38, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

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 ::None of these artists' albums have names anything like the "words" suggested by Cueball and friends in this cartoon. The most unusual names among them, I would say, are {{w|Ed Sheeran discography|Ed Sheeran's albums}}, most of which are named after mathematical symbols. --[[Special:Contributions/172.69.59.102|172.69.59.102]] 05:33, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
 :::I think the point being that these are pop-culture artists ('pop' as still rooted in the original 'popular', rather than necessarily the specific subset that defines 'pop music' culture itself, naturally). Even *I* have heard of these prolofic artistes, though I might have miswritten as "Minage" and (ridiculous as it sounds!) "Weekend", etc. I couldn't tell you what their songs/albums were named as (doesn't one of them call her albums a number, the age at which she created them?), but I could look them up. By contrast, some of the other fields wherein such constructed names might be introduced would be a bit more obscure or untimely, e.g. scientific instrument acronymical names on space probes/landers. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.117|141.101.99.117]] 13:58, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
 :For the NYT crossword, there's a good database of clues and answers at https://www.xwordinfo.com. Some (partial) album names that have been used in the crossword in the past couple years are YAYAS from the Rolling Stones' "Get Yer Yayas Out!", RASTAMAN from Bob Marley's "Rastaman Vibrations", Steely Dan's "AJA", Nas's "I AM", Radiohead's "KID A", Alicia Keys' "AS I AM", Kanye West's "YEEZUS", Beck's "ODELAY", ELO's "OLE ELO", and Genesis's "ABACAB". None of these by those specific artists, but the point is more that they're some of the biggest active artists right now than that they're known specifically for making album names with weird letter combinations.[[Special:Contributions/162.158.158.67|162.158.158.67]] 17:00, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

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−	~~The term for words which are barely used in daily language but often appear in crosswords is {{w\|Crosswordese}}. --[[Special:Contributions/172.71.103.169\|172.71.103.169]] 23:15, 22 February 2024 (UTC)~~

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		+	The term for words which are barely used in daily language but often appear in crosswords is {{w\|Crosswordese}}. --[[Special:Contributions/172.71.103.169\|172.71.103.169]] 23:15, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

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 : {Yoko} "ONO" was over-played in crosswords a few years back. "ORONO" (university town in Maine) was over-favored by one constructor. Not to mention a sandwich cookie. [[User:PRR|PRR]] ([[User talk:PRR|talk]]) 22:39, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 :: "ONO" has also entered English from Hawaiian, where it means (a) good to eat, delicious; (b) the {{w|Wahoo}} (<em>Acanthocybium solandri</em>), a species of fish. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.245.247|108.162.245.247]] 02:21, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
 :”Eni” is an Italy-based oil company.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.68.36|141.101.68.36]] 02:50, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

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	Is no one going to mention "Mr. Weeknd"? The thought of going up to him and addressing him by "Mr. Weeknd" is really funny to me [[User:Phlaxyr\|Phlaxyr]] ([[User talk:Phlaxyr\|talk]]) 18:12, 21 February 2024 (UTC)		Is no one going to mention "Mr. Weeknd"? The thought of going up to him and addressing him by "Mr. Weeknd" is really funny to me [[User:Phlaxyr\|Phlaxyr]] ([[User talk:Phlaxyr\|talk]]) 18:12, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
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	Is no one going to mention "Mr. Weeknd"? The thought of going up to him and addressing him by "Mr. Weeknd" is really funny to me [[User:Phlaxyr\|Phlaxyr]] ([[User talk:Phlaxyr\|talk]]) 18:12, 21 February 2024 (UTC)		Is no one going to mention "Mr. Weeknd"? The thought of going up to him and addressing him by "Mr. Weeknd" is really funny to me [[User:Phlaxyr\|Phlaxyr]] ([[User talk:Phlaxyr\|talk]]) 18:12, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
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