![]() ![]() ![]() Mary was all right, even if she was a bit of a snob, Nuala was a mouthy bitch, but she was a good girl all the same. Yet so overpowering is the moral domination of the born aristocrat over the born snob, that the Baroness changed her mind, and humbly took the obnoxious tray away and set it down on another table near the door. There, in the eyes of his former compadres, he was apotheosized from a rural campesino into a nuevo rico who claimed he could buy the entire landscape of his birth, its petty aristocrats, snobs and bigwigs thrown in for good measure. When Christ at a symbolic moment was establishing His great society, He chose for its comer-stone neither the brilliant Paul nor the mystic John, but a shuffler, a snob a coward-in a word, a man. There’s actually a term for the language in crosswords: “crossword-ese.Ilna had continued to employ Mistress Kaline after Merota became her ward, in part because the stern old snob did in her way truly love the child, but also because Ilna was more afraid of her own power than she was of anything else in this world or beyond it. The only way anyone gets good is by doing them over and over and learning the words in crossword puzzles that you don’t use in normal language. What advice would you give someone who’s terrible at crosswords? It’s definitely a concept that’s used all over the place. If you go around the world, there are different shapes and different formats and rules for how to construct an “American” puzzle. The fifteen-by-fifteen square box is distinctly American. It’s attempted and solved by more people around the country than any other.Īs far as I know there are crosswords all over the world. Most people would say the New York Times. What’s the Holy Grail for crossword makers? There’s a cleverness to them that makes them more difficult and also more fun to do. The puzzles published late in the week, Friday or Saturday, are considered among the harder puzzles. ![]() Where are the toughest crossword puzzles in the world found? So you’d have to be exceptionally skilled and have a lot of connections if that was something you wanted to do for a career. And they’re somewhat time-consuming to make. ![]() You get about $200 per puzzle, even for the New York Times. You try to keep it as modern as possible.ĭownload a crossword puzzle created by Patrick Duggan for Bostonia. A computer can generate plenty of dictionary words, but what makes a puzzle desirable nowadays is the kind of colloquialisms and modern slang that you won’t find in a dictionary. That’s definitely helpful, but it’s not going to help you make a crossword that’s going to be published by the New York Times or a major publication. If you have a string of letters with blank squares, they can give you a list of words that can fill it up. There are programs on the computer that can help you. I just tried it and eventually I got a good one. When I found out that crossword puzzles are all individually made by some person - that it’s not a company or a computer program that was making them - I wanted to figure out if I could do it. How did you get started making crosswords? Patrick Duggan (SAR'11) Photo by Vernon Doucetteīostonia: Is there a name for someone who makes crossword puzzles?ĭuggan: “Constructor” is the term most people would use. Two Down Patrick Duggan (SAR’11), who recently sold two crossword puzzles to the New York Times, talks about the high art and low pay of the highbrow word game | From Gallery | By Nathaniel Boyle ![]()
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