A few weeks ago, we brought back one of our trickiest recurring features:the View a Clue game! If you recall, I selected ten fictional characters that commonly show up in crossword grids — some have becomecrosswordeseat this point — to see if the PuzzleNation audience could identify the...
as do any number of murder mysteries where a strange message scribbled on a crossword grid turn out to be a pivotal clue to catch the killer.
” you could have REGAL or ROYAL, and those shared letters add a level of uncertainty and challenge to the grid. Similarly, if you have a 5-letter word and the clue is “Escape” or “Sidestep,” you’ve got EVADE, ELUDE, AVOID, and DODGE all as possibilities. That’s a little tou...
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Clue #5: [Boo-Hoo](5 letters) Brackets are used less commonly than quotation marks or question marks in crossword clue, so it’s more likely that a casual solver wouldn’t immediately recognize what to do with this clue. Usually, brackets indicate this is a non-traditional clue, either ...
give you a combination of letters and blanks. Each blank represents a missing letter. The given letters spell out not only a word, but your clue as well. Because when you fill those blanks with the missing letters, you’ll spell out a larger word that’s a synonym of the given word....
Writing fiction and writing crossword clues are completely different processes. A novel is a long, leisurely cross-country trip, while a crossword clue is a quick peek around the corner. It took me about a year to write each book, after researching it for months, and another six months of...
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Sure, we joke about the silent film stars and European rivers and African animals that often fall under the banner of crosswordese, but only because we’ve seen them enough to know them. We crave new entries, new peculiarities of language, and new crossword clue fodder to challenge and en...
If you’re a fan of theLos Angeles TimesCrossword, there’s the terrificL.A. Times Crossword Cornerblog to keep you up to date on that puzzle, breaking every puzzle down clue by clue. (There’s alsoLAX Crossword, which offers answers and clue explanations.) ...