Crossword Puzzles

Do you do crosswords?

  • Heck yeah

    Votes: 17 63.0%

  • Heck no

    Votes: 3 11.1%

  • What a waste of time

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • It's a great activity to ward off loneliness and alcoholism

    Votes: 6 22.2%

  • I'd rather play Scrabble or some carp like that

    Votes: 2 7.4%

  • Sac must be really bored

    Votes: 9 33.3%
  • Total voters
    27
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Okay so I'm hard at work here. Obviously. I'm doing this crossword puzzle, and, I'm pretty sure the source is not the NYT. Notice 55 down. The clue is "Japan's continent." The answer is "Asia."

What exactly the flock? Are these crossword puzzle creators that ignorant?

Got any great crossword stories?
 
Sac Arrow said:
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Okay so I'm hard at work here. Obviously. I'm doing this crossword puzzle, and, I'm pretty sure the source is not the NYT. Notice 55 down. The clue is "Japan's continent." The answer is "Asia."

What exactly the flock? Are these crossword puzzle creators that ignorant?

Got any great crossword stories?
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But that's the correct answer. Which of the other 7 continents would you like to assign to Japan?
 
I forgot to add....all responses should be in crossword puzzle format
 
In that case Hawaii is on the North American continent.
 
I subscribe to the NYT crosswords but I don't do them every day anymore. There was a stretch where I had solved it 183 days straight (I broke the streak when I went to Oshkosh that year).
Now I just do the Wordle, Strands, Connections, and the Spelling Bee most days and then do the puzzles if I'm inclined.

I used to do the NYT, the WaPo, and the WSJ puzzle every day (WaPo just syndicates someone else's, LA Times I think).
 
Oh, I came across another gem. Same series of crossword puzzles.

Clue: Germ free.

Answer: Antiseptic.

Um, no. Aseptic. An antiseptic is a substance that kills germs.
 
Well, it seems I can vote for both “Heck, yeah” and “Sac must be really bored”

And yes, there are more than a few island nations included in the Asian continent.
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It would be correct to say that there are island nations that are asian. It would be incorrect to say that they are on the asian continent. Also note that europe and asia share the same continent. I believe the delineation is the eastern Russian border.
 
Sac Arrow said:
It would be correct to say that there are island nations that are asian. It would be incorrect to say that they are on the asian continent. Also note that europe and asia share the same continent. I believe the delineation is the eastern Russian border.
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Where are you getting your definition of continent? It’s different than any that I grew up with.

en.m.wikipedia.org

Continent - Wikipedia

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Okay guess you guys are right and I'm wrong. But...

Usually? When did this start? Sure as hell not what I learned in school.
 
Matthew said:
Anyone into acrostics?

en.m.wikipedia.org

Acrostic (puzzle) - Wikipedia

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I used to be, but the &#&$@*( NYTimes doesn't deliver even the Sunday paper for me. They claim they can't find a distributor. Oddly, the guy who delivers my WSJ puts in in NY Times plastic bags just to further frustrate me. I have tried everywhere in the NYT tree to convince them that if they can deliver journals to me and they can deliver Times six miles down the road, they should be able to get it to me.
 
Sac Arrow said:
In that case Hawaii is on the North American continent.
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We proved that in WWII right? They said Asia and we said nope. That’s why the other name is the Geographers War.

Yeeesh

What do they teach in schools these days?
 
flyingron said:
I used to be, but the &#&$@*( NYTimes doesn't deliver even the Sunday paper for me. They claim they can't find a distributor. Oddly, the guy who delivers my WSJ puts in in NY Times plastic bags just to further frustrate me. I have tried everywhere in the NYT tree to convince them that if they can deliver journals to me and they can deliver Times six miles down the road, they should be able to get it to me.
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Me and my Dad would work the daily crossword from the paper. I don't really care for them online or on a tablet as much.
If you could get the online version of the NYT crossword, you might be able to print them out.
Not as easy or nice as just getting it delivered, but if you could print out several of the past ones at one time, it might be another option.
 
Skyrys62 said:
Me and my Dad would work the daily crossword from the paper. I don't really care for them online or on a tablet as much.
If you could get the online version of the NYT crossword, you might be able to print them out.
Not as easy or nice as just getting it delivered, but if you could print out several of the past ones at one time, it might be another option.
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The online crossword subscriptions or even the full up online subscription do not have the variety and acrrostic puzzles any more. Just the regular grid and the mini.
 
I like to play "Carp"

Mostly I play sudoku and Wordle. There are quite a few variatons of Sudoku, which I play often but I prefer the standard one.
 
I’ve been doing the NYT crossword (mostly) every day for at least a decade.

I had a 360-ish day streak going (my longest), and broke it because I forgot to finish a Saturday puzzle after work. Ugh.

It’s become a part of my daily routine.
 
Well, to be fair, the words “continent” and “continental” are not interchangeable. While the Hawaiian islands are part of the North American continent, they are not part of the continental United States.

Further complicating matters, the island group of Oceania INCLUDES the continent of Australia, the world’s third largest island as well as the world’s second largest island, New Guinea, which is not its own continent. The islands of Oceania are actually split between the continents North America, Australia, and Asia.

So even if you DID pay attention in geography class, it can still be confusing.
 
It's interesting how the definition of continent has... evolved.
 
Why do I keep beating myself up like that?
 
Sac Arrow said:
Japan is a series of islands. It is not on a continent.
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Is Catalina Island a part of the North American continent? Martha's Vineyard? The Florida Keys? Newfoundland? Prince Edward Island? Kodiak Island? The Aleutian Islands?

Another way often used to define continents is by tectonic plates.
 
Domenick said:
Is Catalina Island a part of the North American continent? Martha's Vineyard? The Florida Keys? Newfoundland? Prince Edward Island? Kodiak Island? The Aleutian Islands?

Another way often used to define continents is by tectonic plates.
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If you accept the aforementioned definition of continent, then apparently that would be the case - ignoring the caveat "usually."
 
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