People are perversely addicted to the frustrating tip of the tongue sensation that only a crossword puzzle can deliver.
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Crossword constructors are paid abysmally at almost all newspapers, and given no share of reprint revenue. It's totally out of balance.
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In the 1920s, when puzzles were a craze, newspapers played proto neoliberal games — “of course you love writing puzzles so much that you don’t need to get paid”
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Easy mistake to make. Most people who don't love them find them intensely annoying. They're almost as polarizing as cilantro. No one is "meh, I can take it or leave it" about them.
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When I want to make NYT staffers mad, I like to call it a crossword puzzle and cooking app with a news division attached
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We do the crossword every night. Only reason we subscribe. Also the only thing we use that stupid iPad for.
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Not only do newspaper people frequently underestimate their readers' love of crosswords; they underestimate how much time and effort that skilled crossword writers put into making their puzzles as good as they can be (for such little pay).
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That's why many newspaper editors don't really care which crossword they supply; the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Boston Globe still syndicate crosswords written by Timothy Parker despite the fact that he spent years plagiarizing other people's work.https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-plagiarism-scandal-is-unfolding-in-the-crossword-world/ …
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If The Times discontinued the Cryptic there'd be a massive nerdy grey-haired riot this end. Thing's an institution.
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