This weekend is the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. I competed in it as a pair with my wife Vicki and I’ll have the full report for you next week. I hope everyone who competed this weekend had a good time and enjoyed the puzzles.
This weekend I’m rerunning a puzzle that was originally published in The Post Magazine in June 2016. If it was new to you then I hope you enjoyed seeing it for the first time. If you remember it, then hopefully it was a fun trip down memory lane. The theme answers take the names of popular websites and swap the order of the two words in them to create wacky phrases:
There’s not much to add beyond the blog post that I wrote for it five years ago, but one thing I remember fondly about this puzzle is that I got to playfully experiment with some of the clues. The ones for AT SEA at 5A: [Completely lost … unless you’re a pirate, and if so, carry on] and EGGS at 121A: [Honest answer to the question “Where do storks come from?”] are holdovers from 2016, but I updated a handful of others. Here’s what changed since the puzzle last ran:
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