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WORDPLAY ON THE FRITZ ⋇ DEFY THE HEGEMONY ⋇ THINK FOR YOURSELF ⋇ DO NOT PANIC
Happy holidaze and welcome back to the show! This week, Rebecca and Brooke calmly discuss four New York Times crossword puzzles published 11/22/2022 - 11/26/22. We also poke a stick at the curious corpus of 😱 LOGIC PUZZLES 😱 such as sudoku, ken ken, and star battles! We are two kra-z kids!!!
Plus:
- Red alert! Reds are red, but violet may or may not be blue: colors, categories, and linguistic relativity vs. universalism in this Nautilus article by Chelsea Wald
- PICTURE cards
- How not to fall for the myth of crossword's 'unwritten rules'
- The joy of connecting the dot dot dots
- Theme queries: emotional risks vs. open submissions (again)
And the Inkubator is available at https://inkubatorcrosswords.com/.
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