Arthur Hughes, The Property Room
Last year’s “Cavalcade of Crosswordese” was so enormously popular that I have decided to make a sequel.
But don’t suppose I’m just blindly feeding the appetite of the masses. As I’ve said before, my purpose in making puzzles is to influence the public to share my refined tastes and correct opinions by alluding to them in my grid entries. So I’ve got my favorite Norwegian city in here, and my favorite sandwich cookie (except for the Hydrox), and my favorite boxer, and my favorite bygone autocrat (doggone those Bolsheviks!). Alas, I couldn’t find a place for my favorite detective-movie dog this time, or my favorite Shakespearean quotation, or any of my favorite musicians; but no matter, I think my past work has already done enough to raise the profiles of Asta, “Et tu,” Ono, Eno, and the ELO. They’re catching on!
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A crossword of mine will appear Sunday, November 17, as the Universal Sunday Crossword (in, for example, the New York Daily News), and another Wednesday, November 20, in the Wall Street Journal.