53-Down's clue in the May 6, 1996, puzzle reads, "Amo, amas," with no dashes > This never happens in the Times itself. The top of the next. If a clue isn't making sense and it's at the bottom of a column, Which reminds me: Occasionally a clue will start at the bottom of a column and finish at Record the previous March, and my references weren't up-to-date enough to reflect this Coach Dean Smith of the University of North Carolina had passed Adolph Rupp's basketball coach." Unfortunately, this clue was factually
> This definitely was printed correctly in the Times. A similar error occurs in the December 3, 1997, puzzle, in which the clue for theĪnswer RUPP is given as "Winningest N.C.A.A. > You're right-the intended clue was "Repetitious goodbye." Out of character for New York Times crossword puzzle clue-and-answer
Thing, but as it stands the relationship doesn't make sense to me, or, at best, it is way "Repetitious goodbye" or "Repetitious words of parting" or some such Only two days before, in the October 26, 1994, puzzle, the clue for 30-Across is givenĪs "Repetitious," and the answer is TATA. I can only only assume that theĬlue is missing a word or a phrase at the end. Perhaps it was meant to read "Follows hostiley" instead of "Follows hostilely." (The answer is The clue for 38-Down in the October 28, 1994, puzzle. The clue is given as A similar error occurred-one in which a letter is dropped from the end of a word-in > This is just a typo, and the spelling might well have been correct in the Times (The answer is ERA.) This is certainly a trivial error, but, as I say, there are soįew of them that even this slight mispelling of "Paleozoic" is noteworthy. In the May 5, 1994, puzzle the clue for 55-Down is given as "Paleozic, e.g." "schism," which does indeed imply a sort of split. Personalities. I suspect the erroneous relationship arises from the term Include, in any sense whatsoever, the idea of a split personality or multiple With a split personality, but the psychiatric diagnosis of that term simply does not In a 1990 puzzle the answer to the clue "Having a split personality" is givenĪs SCHIZOID. Now, I realize that the lay meaning of schizophrenia is that of a person > See Random House Unabridged, 2nd edition. It. The clue in the May 31, 1994, puzzle is "Confirmation slaps," and the This is another one where I don't know whether it's an error or I'm just not getting USSR. The problem, if it is one, is that the U.S.S.R. "Wiinged goddess." (See, I told you some of these errors are trivial.)īut in that same puzzle appears the clue "U.N. Goddess." Now Nike was indeed a winged goddess, but the clue actually read, The February 4, 1992, puzzle contains the answer NIKE to the clue "Winged
in C.", as in "Commander inĬhief," which, of course, is a President.Ĭ. (My editing began in November 1993.) However, "C.I.N.C." I just plain don't get this relationship. The closest I canĬome is that PRES is an abbreviation for "president," but what The answer to 13-Down in the October 16, 1991, puzzle is PRES, and the clue is Or 1-D. As I understand it, that is two-dimensional which has exactly two dimensions,Į.g., a triangle or a quadrilateral or a circle.ī. "two-dimensional," and I'm pretty sure that which is linear is one-dimensional, Is LINEAR. No matter how I try to define the clue and the answer, I can't reconcile In the January 8, 1997, puzzle the clue for 47-Down is "2-D." The answer Most of these are extremely tiny - noticed by only one or two people - but a mistake's a mistake, so I do keep track.Ī. Thought I'd take a few minutes and answer some of your questions about errors and disputedīy my count, about 20 slips do get through each year. I've been enjoying your crossword website, which I discovered by accident this evening. Shortzĭoes not quote me in full, which makes a difference. Haven't already, you should first read the list of purportedĮrrors in New York Times crossword puzzles, because in some cases Mr. Received an unsolicited e-mail from Will Shortz, editor of the New York TimesĬrossword puzzle since 1993. Shortly after I published the crossword section of this Web site I
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