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Re: Crossword 002
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Tue, 26 Dec 2000 14:06:13 GMT
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Ah! Those are great ideas. thanks. It is commonly misspelled (I think), it got
by three people. But heck, with such a grid you get two clues per square and the
other one is easy. My x-word software has acronym help built in. I'll try that
too.
The puzzle also has two questionable spellings -- one a prefix, the other slang.
Todd didn't think those were a problem though. Hmm..
-Suz
In lugnet.fun, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.fun, Suzanne D. Rich writes:
> > I agree. I would like to be producing these once per week.
> >
> > I took up quite a bit of time in building an American-style crossword as 003.
> > Such a grid is much more difficult to fill. Then I wrote up all the clues for it
> > (about 75). Just as I was finishing, I discovered a spelling mistake in the
> > puzzle. A fatal error. This taught me to spell check _before_ writing clues..
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> Bummer.
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> I hope you saved it! I don't suppose the word is one where the misspelling
> is a common variant or common mistake? I once saw a puzzle where the clue
> was of the form "common misspelling of the word that means x", which means
> to me that I bet the author did the same thing, or just couldn't get the
> right spelling to fit.
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> Failing that, as a last resort, you could alway do the old acronymic
> backformation (send me the word and I will send you an acronym definition
> for those letters, it may be corny but it works... I was pretty good at
> making up acronyms for any given selection of letters) trick...
>
> These are all things to try to rescue your work. They may not be compatible
> with your sense of perfection but were offered in .fun in the hopes of some
> salvage of a lot of effort!
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| (...) slang. (...) I think he's right they're probably not a problem. If it makes you feel any better about it I just worked a Sunday New York Times crossword in the last week (not their current puzzle, but #36 in the Sunday NYT Collection V.22) in (...) (24 years ago, 27-Dec-00, to lugnet.fun)
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| (...) Bummer. I hope you saved it! I don't suppose the word is one where the misspelling is a common variant or common mistake? I once saw a puzzle where the clue was of the form "common misspelling of the word that means x", which means to me that (...) (24 years ago, 25-Dec-00, to lugnet.fun)
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