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Dec 18, 2023 · Can Crosswords Be More Inclusive? ... at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (A.C.P.T.), an annual speed-solving contest in which crossword writers like Ghogre and me take over a Marriott ...
- Natan Last
Nov 6, 2022 · Crossword clues can easily be more inclusive and diverse, reflecting all the people who solve them. "Someone decides what words get in, what's part of the clues, and in doing that they're deciding ...
- 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 ...
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
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.”. Because of English’s consonant-heavy phonotactics, crossword constructors make use of vowel-heavy French ...
Feb 11, 2021 · How can the crossword world become more inclusive and think outside the box, or in this case, the 15 by 15 grid? For that and more, I'm joined by K. Austin Collins, a film critic at Rolling Stone and crossword constructor for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and more. Kameron, welcome back to the show. Austin Collins: Hi, there. Good to hear ...
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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 ...
