I’ve had it with the New York Times crossword! Also with the Wall Street Journal crossword, and the LA Times, and Universal, and all the independent little web-site crosswords, and in fact everybody’s crosswords but my own!
Why? I find that other people’s crosswords show a troubling disregard for my tastes, and preferences, and interests, and opinions, and areas of expertise. And this, I suspect, is because these crosswords are made by people other than me—or, if made by me, yet edited by people other than me.
So what’s to be done? I thought of writing an article, or even a daily blog, scolding these various crossword purveyors for their non-me-friendly content. But then I hit on a simpler solution: from now on, I’ll just do my own crosswords and nobody else’s. And I recommend that you, gentle solver, take the same principled course: give up those other crosswords and just do mine; cancel your crossword subscriptions and donate the money to me. Me.
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