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Crossword 202: Aw, How Cute!

Charles Burton Barber, Girl with Dogs
Charles Burton Barber, Girl with Dogs

What makes my crosswords so exceptionally adorable?  It’s not their symmetrical features; most crosswords have those.  They aren’t  rounded or fuzzy—on the contrary, they are geometrically rectilinear and semantically exact.  But their babbling delight in language, their wide-eyed, uncomplicated openness to life give them an infantile appeal very unlike the hard-edged affect of their adolescent meme-grubbing,  slang-repeating,  hipster-referencing competitors.


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202 Aw, How Cute!