https://crystal.castle.cc/tag/crosswords/ Recent content in Crosswords on adventures of an omnomnomnivore in NYC Hugo en-US Sat, 02 Apr 2011 12:20:51 -0400 https://crystal.castle.cc/2011/04/02/gridlock-battling-wits-at-the-american-crossword-puzzle-tournament/ Sat, 02 Apr 2011 12:20:51 -0400 https://crystal.castle.cc/2011/04/02/gridlock-battling-wits-at-the-american-crossword-puzzle-tournament/ <p><a href="https://crystal.castle.cc/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/img_9176.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1504" title="IMG_9176" src="https://crystal.castle.cc/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/img_9176.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" /></a></p> <p>“For this puzzle, each answer will be a 7-letter word. I’m going to give you the first and last letters, and the middle 5 letters will be an anagram of the word ‘inset.’ If you think you know the answer, yell it out. Ready? F, S.”</p> <p>“Fitness!”</p> <p>“D, T.”</p> <p>“Dentist!”</p> <p>“J, G.”</p> <p>“Jesting!”</p> <p>“Ok, this next combination has two possible answers. D, Y.”</p> <p>“Destiny—and density!”</p> <p>I scribbled furiously. All around me, the best puzzle solving minds in America were gleefully shouting out answers. Meanwhile, I could barely keep up recording the answers on paper. Clearly, my brain was missing some wiring in the verbal juggling department.</p>