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Crossword Crazies
by Alan Cook → (All Poetry by Alan Cook)
Tuesday, July 6, 2021    Rated "G" by the Author.
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People who solve crossword puzzles are a little daft.

 I love to nuzzle

a crossword puzzle;

I love to find the theme.

My brows will furl

at puzzles by Merl,*

who was a constructor supreme.

 

Those clever clues

have me singing the blues;

I blame it all on Will,**

who set the rules

for us solving fools,

to test our spirit and skill.

 

One happy day

they made Wordplay,***

a movie about the craft

of undertaking

puzzle making,

and evolution

of puzzle solution,

for those a little daft.

 

*Merl Reagle (1950-2015)

**Will Shortz  The New York Times crossword puzzle editor

***Wordplay  2006 documentary about the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament

 


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Reviewed by Kalikiano Kalei
Reviewed on July 7, 2021
I've never been caught up in Crosswords, Alan, but your poetic paean here is most amusing and enjoyable! But then, I'm also a terrible chess player (perhaps worse than Buster Keaton, who eschewed that form of exquisitely tortuous intellectual challenge himself!) and an absolutely abysmal golfer (my scores are lower than the recorded sub-surface dive record in the Mariannas Trench's Challenger Deep!) so despite my best efforts to be perfect, I'm a complete flop! All that said, perhaps a good, swift kick in Will's Shortz would be in order, LoL? Thanks! Aloha nui loa! -K2


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