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Dec 18, 2023 · Crossword lovers, like joke lovers, have a quick-draw inventory of memorable puzzle themes; Ghogre describes a quip puzzle that featured the answers PIG-TIGHT, BULL-STRONG, and HORSE-HIGH—old ...
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Nov 6, 2022 · WATCH | The Passionate Eye looks at how crossword puzzles can be more inclusive: Crosswords are full of stereotypes and non-inclusive clues | Across and Down. 2 years ago. Duration 1:14.
Mar 18, 2020 · Agard, who once wore a PUBLISH MORE WOMEN shirt to a crossword-puzzle tournament, thinks Shortz and other legacy editors “could snap [their] infinity gauntlets like Thanos, and 50 percent of ...
- Natan Last
- A New Perspective on Inclusivity
- Demanding Change in The 'Crossworld'
- Rethinking My Own Life's 'Grid'
My first real encounter with exclusion came after my partner was diagnosed with ALS and his disability began to change the way the world saw him. The experience of watching him being treated differently, simply because he no longer looked and communicated in ways that society has incorrectly judged as beautiful and competent, rippled through my lif...
About a decade ago, I was field producing a five-minute story in Lunenburg, N.S., on cruciverbalist Walter Feener. The name of his vocation is as intriguing as the vocation itself. A cruciverbalist is a person who has a deep affection and skill for solving and/or constructing crossword puzzles — and Walter was a whiz at building them. When I saw ho...
Every single crossword puzzle constructor I had the pleasure of speaking with for Across & Downgenerously accepted me into the "crossworld." "The crossworld is a weird, twisted niche community, a collection of intellectual misfits who get off on wordplay," expert constructor Ross Trudeau told me. "[It] comprises people who make puzzles, people who ...
Nov 6, 2022 · Crossword puzzles are a common pastime for millions of people around the world, but some crossword hobbyists says diversity is often lacking in who designs the puzzles and what's represented in them. The issue of inclusion of race, gender, sexuality and other categories has been debated in the crossword world for decades, according to Will Nediger of London, Ont., a crossword constructor for ...
Crossword puzzles have been ubiquitous for over 100 years. You can find them in magazines and newspapers; they’re online and available through their own apps. ... diverse and inclusive. More ...
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Dec 19, 2023 · In 2021, the psychologist and puzzle-maker Erica Hsiung Wojcik published the Expanded Crossword Name Database, a “list of names, places and things that represent groups, identities and people often excluded from crossword grids.”
