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4 days agoAn Existential Crisis in the Crossword Community
A printing error in the Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle caused confusion and frustration among solvers.
Our Monday crossword? It's good. This week's puzzle was constructed by Will Nediger and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Will is a crossword constructor from London, Ontario who uses the nom de plume Bewilderingly (an anagram of "by Will Nediger"). Defector crosswords, launched in partnership with our friends at AVCX, run every Monday. If you're interested in submitting a puzzle to us, you can read our guidelines.
When November's Genius puzzle germinated in July, no one knew how popular its hidden theme would be by the time of publication. A celebrity version of The Traitors? sniffed the sceptics. We and they will already know the personalities. Typical terrible TV idea. Won't work. Eleven million live viewers later, we can now have a look at the filled version of Glyph's remarkable grid. Or rather, grids.
Put your thinking cap on. It's time for the Monday crossword. This week's puzzle was constructed by Sala Wanetick, and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Sala is a former advertising professional turned cheesemonger living just outside of Detroit. Her first book of crosswords is coming out this November; it is 40 Detroit-themed puzzles for all levels. Follow along on their Instagram page for the launch date.