An Open Letter to the N.Y. Times Regarding Their Sunday Crossword
Your circular riddle’s an impossible pill
to swallow. Your blanks I struggle to fill.
The crux of the matter? I never know
just how to harvest the seeds that you sow.
I find your clues exceedingly queer.
Your genius outreaches my talent, I fear.
Prompt words today are circular, riddle, outreach and crux. I’m also answering the dVerse Poet’s Quadrille Challenge making use of the word fill in a 44-word poem.
Here’s the dVerse prompt: https://dversepoets.com/2020/02/10/quadrille-97-filling-the-page/
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
I don’t even try, and I might have as many puzzle books in my bedroom as books.
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Actually, the Saturday crossword is harder, but I only had a book of the Sunday crosswords to photograph. I now blog instead of doing crosswords. They used to be a compulsion with my entire family, though. Everyone tried to be the first to grab the newspaper. Otherwise, it was just filling in the blanks earlier family members couldn’t fill in.
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Ha! So good! And so true! (And you had me at that awesome title!)
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Hook ’em with the title, I always say. You’re good at doing the same with the first line.
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I love their crosswords, though I can almost never complete them!
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I used to love them but no longer have the time to do them.
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It stretches the mind to the max
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This made me smile. And I’m always impressed by people who can do a rhyme and rhythm scheme with the 44 words.
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That’s what I do instead of NY Times Crossword puzzles! I admit I had to do some squeezing and condensing.
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The New Yorker is even worse. Or maybe it’s me. I used to be able to do these things.
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Love it, right from the title on.
Their genius always outreaches my talent. But it’s a good mental exercise.
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Absolutely…
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Lol I can’t do them any more now, but I know what you mean. Love this one!
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Thanks Zany one….
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Funny!
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That last line explains my inability to do crossword puzzles.
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I liked the cryptic ones where the solution was more a matter of wit than knowledge.
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My husband loves them, but I don’t even try. 🙂
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