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If you know the answer to next week's challenge, submit it here by Thursday, July 21 at 3 p.m. Move the first letter to the fifth position and you'll get two words that are synonyms. I'm going to see him next weekend at the annual convention of the National Puzzlers' League in Nashville, Tenn. This week's challenge: This week's challenge comes from Adam Cohen of Brooklyn. What is it?Ĭhallenge answer: Carter, Bush -> Charter bus You'll name a vehicle that's used for special occasions. Move a letter from the second name into the first one. Last week's challenge: Write down the last names of two U.S. and that starts and ends with the same letters as mine.Įxample: Augusta -> ATLANTA You name something else in the same category as my thing that has the same number of letters as mine. WTF -air challenge: I'm going to name something - like a state, state capital, flower, etc. Why? Because it was supposedly “promoting or encouraging self-harm.” IT’S A JOKE ABOUT BRUSSELS SPROUTS. My business partner, was just suspended for 12 hours for this tweet. This is legitimately the most insane Twitter suspension I have ever heard of. Here’s another example of dumb outrage mob crap, just from the past few hours: This is a seven days a week mini crossword puzzle which can be played both online and offline. But victimhood is currency, and people are always greedy for more. We have 1 possible solution for the: Get together as former college classmates crossword clue which last appeared on New York Times The Mini JCrossword Puzzle. That is, it would be an immediate competitor to. As longtime editor David Remnick clarified at the time, their weekly puzzles would be in the American style, as opposed to the British-style cryptic that appeared for a short time in the back of the print edition in the ‘90s. I don’t know if identity politics makes people stupid, or if stupid people are drawn to identity politics, or both. In April of 2018, The New Yorker debuted an online crossword. You must submit to your humiliation and beg for forgiveness, or else it’s just further proof of your bigotry. If you say something that angers someone else, no matter how obvious it is that you meant no offense, the offended party has the final say. But it’s never about the intent of the speaker. The New York Times crossword established its household-name brand dominance under the skillful eye of Margaret Farrar, who edited the crossword from its debut in 1942 to her retirement in 1969. Nobody with half a brain actually believes the crossword team at the NYT is sitting around thinking of ways to be racist.

What a beaner!” Nothing racist about it.īut if you’re determined to be offended, of course you would see the phrase “Pitch to the head, informally” and think it’s just an excuse for those racists at the NYT to hurt your feelings. I’ve never heard it used that way, because baseball is boring, but I can see where it came from. The crossword clue in question was this: “Pitch to the head, informally.” Like when you bean somebody with a baseball. Remember Carlos Mencia? He hasn’t been popular for the past decade, he was never that popular to begin with, and he’s the only person I can think of who’s ever said it. The first time I ever remember hearing “beaner” was when comedian Carlos Mencia said it. Out of all the racial slurs I heard growing up - without ever, ever using them myself, because that would be racist - “beaner” wasn’t one of them. I don’t live in rarefied circles, but as a fellow Crawfordsville boy, I believe him. Times crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz took to Twitter with an explanation of how the situation unfolded and why the slur was included in the puzzle.Ī response from Will Shortz about the entry 2D in today’s crossword puzzle. The New York Times apologized for including a racial slur “beaner” in crossword puzzle on Tuesday, as the editor responsible said his staff lives in “rarefied circles” and was therefore oblivious that the word is considered offensive… So I feel kind of bad that Shortz is now the latest victim of the roaming outrage mob.