Ghulf Genes

Some crossword puzzles need special notice—and a listing in Public Language Abusers International. The one that had us twisting into pretze...

You’ve probably not yet heard of the Tenth Muse. My bad. I should have announced her long ago. It is my wife, Brigitte, but in the world of...

Occasionally I note here particularly irritating or amusing crossword puzzle clues. Doing a puzzle yesterday, from USA Today , dated March ...

Twenty-thirteen has been rich in important anniversaries, 50-year and 100. Or so it seems. It was the 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s assassi...

In the USA Today crossword puzzle (Saturday last) appears the following clue: “45. Propel a gig.” It is supposed to produce a three-letter...

In Crossword Puzzle setting. Such puzzles aren’t written; they are set . I know this because I know the rather rich Morse series of detecti...

Since our retirement, roughly—we ignored them altogether during the many decades of our active lives—we’ve gone through relatively brief pe...

One of Monique and John’s Christmas gifts to us was Bananagrams, a Scrabble-like word game—and in selecting this item they once more proved ...