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Simply a big rectangular building, each similarly sized room is either black or white, and in the museum are affectionately-remembered clues from crosswords of the past.
e.g.
http://www.historic...story/Crossword.htm
[po, May 06 2007]
Araucaria
http://www.guardian...3604,438558,00.html
worthy tribute to a true genius [xenzag, May 07 2007]
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Breakfast treat confuses racist son (9) |
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What's a great idea! OK, cryptic crossword clues are fun, but even in straightforward, easy crosswords, there are all these things that I only know of because they have short names that are spelled funny. The dictionary definitions give little more than the clue - this museum would go to special length to provide evidence of their existence in the real world. |
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Two levels - cryptic and simplex. |
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there should be a dept of answers too. |
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Answers available in the gift shop. |
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Scratch the paint off the walls to reveal the answers, [phundug]. |
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<cut to image of [methinksnot], furiously scratching at the paint in a black room, where there are no answers> |
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Fine clue, Hippo. Clearly, not a skeletal
part of some selfish bon étude. |
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Two words; Oksana Baule. Lots of vowels. |
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[Max] I realised later a more pleasing
anagram was "Tsar's icon". |
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I disagree, o crass nit. I can see that this
might make Ian T. cross. |
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American crosswords tend to be somewhat different English ones - with grids that are nearly full of letters, and relying on ambiguous definitions. They can be just as difficult as cryptic crosswords. |
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Per Jutta, I once toyed with the idea of a creating a crossword entitled "Four Letter Words," full of all the nonce words that get over-used in crossword puzzles. (With all the clues in the same format: "Crossword puzzlers favorite...") But then the NY Times got a new puzzle editor, and he cleaned up their act in that respect. |
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//They can be just as difficult as cryptic
crosswords.// True, as I've found to my
cost after mocking American
crosswords for their simplicity. |
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On the other hand, that means that
many American crosswords are a test
primarily of vocabulary - you either
know it (or guess it because no other
feasible letter combination can fit) or
you don't. There isn't that extra
dimension of trying to see something
very simple which the setter
has hidden in plain view; and there isn't
the opportunity for humour in the way
the clue is cast. Or maybe I just haven't
seen the right US puzzles. |
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//They can be just as difficult as cryptic
crosswords.// - I had to laugh at that -
try Mephisto in the Sunday Times
Magazine (London edition) for
comparison...... Let me know how you
get on. |
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I used to regularly do the Times, Telegraph and Grauniad crosswords. The acrostics are something else, but the cryptics, yeah, they're comparable in difficulty. |
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[Dr. C] that's amazing! I had the same idea. I was going to write a puzzle (yeah, right) which used all the words "EERO", "ISER", "ADIT" with a clue that was a picture of a staple. The long word going across the middle would have the clue "Like 13-across, 26-across, and 39-across" -- the answer would be "Crossword Staples". |
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This is rather nice. In the same way as 'Orc' isn't! |
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