# What are some stock crossword puzzle clues? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 22, 2006, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-stock-crossword-puzzle-clues/345618 "2006-02-22T13:37:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Birdmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-stock-crossword-puzzle-clues/345618/81 "2006-02-27T16:43:36Z")
**twickster** : would you mind linking that new thread in here when you start? Just sounds really interesting… ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-stock-crossword-puzzle-clues/345618/82 "2006-02-27T17:01:20Z")
Will do. Just emailed “cluinghowto” to myself at home; I’ll put something together tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-stock-crossword-puzzle-clues/345618/83 "2006-02-27T23:32:16Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Good start – but I’d disagree on your difficulty levels. “Easy” really means “easy” – as in, the answer should come with almost Pavlovian immediacy. These aren’t particularly hard – but I’d want you to rephrase them twice, once to make it a true “easy” and once to make it a true “medium.” Again, we would have had a conversations before you started, so I don’t think this is insurmountable. “Moroccan flag feature” is nice – but hard, most people wouldn’t know what the Moroccan flag looks like even if they stop and think about it. > > I like your phrasing, and you clearly have a gift for wordplay – I’d be very pleased with a full set of 50 from you, I think. Thanks for the commentary! I was wondering about those easy ones–I didn’t want to make them too easy, so I discarded some of my more obvious ones. Maybe I should have left them in. At any rate, it was a fun exercise; and once more, thank you for the comments! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-stock-crossword-puzzle-clues/345618/84 "2006-03-01T03:46:54Z")
As promised, I started a separate clue-writing how-to and challenge: it’s over [yonder](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=7151724#post7151724). ---
**Author:** ![williamweigand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b3f665/32.png) [@williamweigand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/williamweigand)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-stock-crossword-puzzle-clues/345618/85 "2006-03-01T13:22:04Z")
I really expected someone would have mentioned “work unit” - “erg” by now. ---
**Author:** ![Agonist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@Agonist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agonist)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-stock-crossword-puzzle-clues/345618/86 "2006-03-01T18:17:15Z")
> [@williamweigand](#): > > I really expected someone would have mentioned “work unit” - “erg” by now. Or “ohm”: resistance unit. Another one I never encountered before doing crossword puzzles: ELAN, meaning joy or elation ---
**Author:** ![Birdmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-stock-crossword-puzzle-clues/345618/87 "2006-03-01T18:57:35Z")
Anyone with good knowledge of the French & Spanish ones? They always ask for French articles & seasons… ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-stock-crossword-puzzle-clues/345618/88 "2006-03-01T19:43:27Z")
One they always have in word matrixes (or whatever they’re called), but almost never in crosswords: AVER (to assert authoritatively.) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-stock-crossword-puzzle-clues/345618/89 "2006-03-01T19:48:35Z")
Summer in Paris - ete Sea Eagle - ern _or_ erne (apparently depending on how many slots they have to fill) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-stock-crossword-puzzle-clues/345618.md?page=4)