Why is Yoko Ono in fully 1/3 of the puzzles I do? Doesn’t that seem a lot?
Other examples:
Everytime I turn on the little radio in my kitchen to hear the local weather conditions the song ‘El Paso’ is playing or about to play. (It’s a classic country station, the only one I can pick up) I hate that song.
My littlest grandwrek is at the “do it myself” phase. Everytime she puts her shoes on they go on the wrong feet. Every. Time. You’d think she could get them right 50% of the time.
Yoko Ono, Mel Ott, and Bobby Orr walk into a bar and the bartender says, “What is this? A crossword puzzle convention?”
Or, sea eagles with 2 spellings : Ern or Erne. KImono sash : Obi and a fascination I can not understand with Alan Alda
And which great lake? Hmmm might be Erie.
** I do crossword puzzles everyday.**
That is so bad bad bad.
The LA Times’ puzzle has a hard on for professional golfers.
and spooky= eerie
sword= epee
garner= 3 letters Ava, 4 letters Erle
Vowels.
Yoko Ono has evenly spaced vowels. This makes creating a crossword puzzle much easier.
Whenever you have the option of two possible answers, the answer is almost always the word with the most vowels. Once you realize this it make answering crossword puzzles much easier too.
Brian ENO is another common one, even in the crosswords that generally try to avoid crosswordese (and most of the modern ones do, but each puzzle will still have a sprinkling of them. It’s not as bad as puzzles from the forty or more years ago, though. Those I just don’t even bother to do, as they tend to be esoteric and full of crosswordese.) And these days EMO tends to show up a lot, usually clued as a punk offshoot genre or something of that nature (and not a reference to the comedian, unfortunately. It would bring a big smile to my face if I saw it clued that way.)
As long as they do it with great elan.
This thread needs “My Crossword Life” by Melissa Balmain, in case you haven’t read it.
Some things I know only because of crossword puzzles:
Erato is the muse of poetry
Orono is a city in Maine that has a college
Hal is a character that has something to do with Prince Valiant
Dies irae is apparently a well known Latin phrase
Ara Parsegian was a football coach somewhere
And oreo is always the answer if aloe has already been used.
“I avow never to do a puzzle again”, he averred. Or opined. Whatever.
Okay, I’ll go back to my etui.
Asea. I like that one.
orator or orate
ape
I filled in the TV guide crossword puzzles throughout my teens. A bit reluctant to admit it. It required an unhealthy diet of tv watching. I knew far too much about sitcom and medical show characters.
I eventually reached an age where my tv viewing dropped off and I didn’t have the trivia knowledge to solve the puzzles.
University of Notre Dame. I grew up with a lot of Fighting Irish fans (which is probably why I hate Notre Dame sports), so his was a well-known name.
And in the 21st century it’s rapper names. Makes me long for Celebes Ox.