A Dirty Job but Someone Has to Do It...
7am January 1, 2023, starting the New York Times annual end-of-year Mega Crossword Puzzle with my friend Phyllis in our private room at Café enVie in New Orleans.
This year there are 1,344 clues to solve in a grid that spans three full newspaper pages... We worked for about 4 hours on January 1 and will spend about another 4 hours next Sunday to complete it...
I wanted 540 Across: "Chess opening that starts with 1.e4.c5" to be Sicilian Defense, but the grid only allowed 8 letters. It took me waay too long to try 'Sicilian'...
So that we can each study clues and write down solutions I make copies of the grid and the page of clues. It took 15 sheets of copy paper to fit the grid and those pages all had to be carefully aligned and taped together. Next year I'm going to just buy 2 damn copes of the newspaper...
A Dirty Job but Someone Has to Do It...
7am January 1, 2023, starting the New York Times annual end-of-year Mega Crossword Puzzle with my friend Phyllis in our private room at Café enVie in New Orleans.
This year there are 1,344 clues to solve in a grid that spans three full newspaper pages... We worked for about 4 hours on January 1 and will spend about another 4 hours next Sunday to complete it...
I wanted 540 Across: "Chess opening that starts with 1.e4.c5" to be Sicilian Defense, but the grid only allowed 8 letters. It took me waay too long to try 'Sicilian'...
So that we can each study clues and write down solutions I make copies of the grid and the page of clues. It took 15 sheets of copy paper to fit the grid and those pages all had to be carefully aligned and taped together. Next year I'm going to just buy 2 damn copes of the newspaper...