# I do crossword puzzles everyday. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 27, 2019, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-crossword-puzzles-everyday/845479 "2019-12-27T23:41:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-crossword-puzzles-everyday/845479/1 "2019-12-27T23:41:53Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-crossword-puzzles-everyday/845479/2 "2019-12-27T23:46:43Z")
Yoko Ono, Mel Ott, and Bobby Orr walk into a bar and the bartender says, “What is this? A crossword puzzle convention?” ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-crossword-puzzles-everyday/845479/3 "2019-12-27T23:59:23Z")
Or, sea eagles with 2 spellings : Ern or Erne. KImono sash : Obi and a fascination I can not understand with Alan Alda ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-crossword-puzzles-everyday/845479/4 "2019-12-28T00:03:29Z")
And which great lake? Hmmm might be Erie. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-crossword-puzzles-everyday/845479/5 "2019-12-28T00:08:00Z")
\*\* I do crossword puzzles everyday.\*\* That is so bad bad bad. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-crossword-puzzles-everyday/845479/6 "2019-12-28T00:08:52Z")
The LA Times’ puzzle has a hard on for professional golfers. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-crossword-puzzles-everyday/845479/7 "2019-12-28T00:10:25Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > \*\* I do crossword puzzles everyday.\*\* > > That is so bad bad bad. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-crossword-puzzles-everyday/845479/8 "2019-12-28T00:10:54Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#): > > And which great lake? Hmmm might be Erie. and spooky= eerie sword= epee garner= 3 letters Ava, 4 letters Erle ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-crossword-puzzles-everyday/845479/9 "2019-12-28T00:35:37Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Why is Yoko Ono in fully 1/3 of the puzzles I do? Doesn’t that seem a lot? 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. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-crossword-puzzles-everyday/845479/10 "2019-12-28T00:43:22Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Yoko Ono, Mel Ott, and Bobby Orr walk into a bar and the bartender says, “What is this? A crossword puzzle convention?” 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.) ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-crossword-puzzles-everyday/845479/11 "2019-12-28T00:45:50Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Yoko Ono, Mel Ott, and Bobby Orr walk into a bar and the bartender says, “What is this? A crossword puzzle convention?” As long as they do it with great elan. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-crossword-puzzles-everyday/845479/12 "2019-12-28T00:53:19Z")
This thread needs “My Crossword Life” by Melissa Balmain, in case you haven’t read it. > **["My Crossword Life," by Melissa Balmain](http://crosswordfiend.blogspot.com/2008/03/my-crossword-life-by-melissa-balmain.html)** > > The ACPT contestant folders contained a two-page short story by Melissa Balmain, laden with crossword answers we have all seen countless tim... ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-crossword-puzzles-everyday/845479/13 "2019-12-28T00:56:09Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-crossword-puzzles-everyday/845479/14 "2019-12-28T01:00:20Z")
And oreo is always the answer if aloe has already been used. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-crossword-puzzles-everyday/845479/15 "2019-12-28T01:11:19Z")
“I avow never to do a puzzle again”, he averred. Or opined. Whatever. Okay, I’ll go back to my etui. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-crossword-puzzles-everyday/845479/16 "2019-12-28T01:29:25Z")
Asea. I like that one. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-crossword-puzzles-everyday/845479/17 "2019-12-28T01:39:34Z")
orator or orate ape ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-crossword-puzzles-everyday/845479/18 "2019-12-28T01:39:57Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-crossword-puzzles-everyday/845479/19 "2019-12-28T02:08:09Z")
> [@Llama\_Llogophile](#): > > Ara Parsegian was a football coach somewhere 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. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-crossword-puzzles-everyday/845479/20 "2019-12-28T02:11:10Z")
And in the 21st century it’s rapper names. Makes me long for Celebes Ox. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-crossword-puzzles-everyday/845479.md?page=2)