My late Mom,who never went beyond high school because she grew up with a widowed mother during the depression,used to do the Sunday NY Times puzzle in pen.If only I had inherited *her* intelligence.
Love crossword puzzles, I just do them online now ... haven’t subscribed to a newspaper in years.
Just because newspapers are dying doesn’t mean crosswords have to.
Plenty of activity books devoted solely to them as well as combos.
My favorite clue ever was for a thirteen letter space. It was “GEGS”.
Answer: “scrambled eggs”
I’ve bought StandAlone’s crossword app for two Palm pda’s, an iPod Touch, and my 7” Google Nexus tablet. Doing crossword puzzles help me wake up in the morning and go to sleep at night. And doing crossword puzzles makes the time fly while waiting for an appointment.
I remember staying with my grandparents for a week during the summer while in high school. Grandma used to do the newspaper crossword in purple ink. :-)
I never gave it much thought...but crossword puzzles will probably go the way of the dinosaur.
Kids don’t know how to spell and it isn’t taught in school anymore.
Just imagine a crossword puzzle made of “text talk”.
The ban bossy campaign and renaming of sports franchises fad has now spread to banning ALL cross words.