{"id":2948,"date":"2008-04-12T17:49:18","date_gmt":"2008-04-12T22:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2948"},"modified":"2008-04-12T17:49:18","modified_gmt":"2008-04-12T22:49:18","slug":"cross-words-for-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2948","title":{"rendered":"Cross words for the Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh man, this note<\/a> from Fred Piscop<\/a> bums me out more than I can say:<\/p>\n

I’m very sorry to announce that I will be leaving my position as editor of the Washington Post Sunday crossword.<\/p>\n

For financial reasons, the Post has decided to discontinue its own Sunday crossword in favor of a syndicated one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I missed this announcement when he made it back in September — I’m a crossword puzzle enthusiast, possibly even a cruciverbalist<\/i>, but I don’t hang out in online crossword constructor communities as a general rule. Still, I’d been having some trouble lately printing the Sunday puzzle from the Post<\/i>‘s website. Turns out, it’s because there hasn’t been one since the last Sunday in March.<\/p>\n

I’ve been a big fan of Piscop’s edited Sunday puzzle since college, when our student paper started syndicating it every Friday. I still remember one puzzle I toiled on during my lunch break when I worked at the campus bookstore. The themed clues were all four-double-letter combinations, with just ridiculously punny answers, which I seem to remember it took more than a few of us to figure out. For instance, the answer to the clue “BBBB” was “waxmakers,” because that’s what bees<\/i> are. I know, people have been shot for puns not as bad as that, but it was funny at the time and made an impression. And I’ve been happily doing the Sunday puzzle every week since then, even when I stopped picking up the college paper regularly (and then moved away altogether), by printing it out from the Washington Post<\/i>‘s website.<\/p>\n

But now it’s gone. There’s still the New York Times<\/i> Sunday puzzle — I’ve been known to buy the newspaper just for the puzzle in the Times Magazine<\/i> — but I’m genuinely disappointed to see Piscop’s weekly puzzle go.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh man, this note from Fred Piscop bums me out more than I can say: I’m very sorry to announce that I will be leaving my position as editor of the Washington Post Sunday crossword. For financial reasons, the Post has decided to discontinue its own Sunday crossword in favor of a syndicated one. I … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}