I’ve gotten back into crosswords after a few decades and one change that makes me rather cross (wordplay fully intended) is clues no longer indicate the number of words in the answer, let alone the letter count of the word(s) in the clue.
Maybe you didn’t grow up with crosswords that did that, but I did, and it was better that way. `old_man_yells_at_cloud.jpg`
Eric A. Meyer /
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2024-03-27 00:40:39
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