Crossword Puzzles
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Constructor: Jake Halperin
Editor: Anna Gundlach
What I Learned from Today’s Puzzle
- LAP (15A: One of the Monaco Grand Prix’s 78) The Monaco Grand Prix is a Formula One racing event. The Monaco Grand Prix was first held in 1929, and it is considered to be one of the most prestigious auto races in the world. The race course is laid out on the city streets of Monaco, a city-state on the French Riviera. The race is just under 162 miles, and consists of 78 LAPs.
- DOG (21A: “Can You Pet the ___?” (catalog of pettable video game animals)) Tristan Cooper started an account called “Can You Pet the DOG?” on X (which was called Twitter at the time) in 2019 after discovering that the stray DOGs in the video game Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 could not be petted. Since then, the account has answered the question in its title for a number of video games. The account has been an influence on video game developers to add features allowing users to pet DOGs and other animals encountered in games.
- JEN (59D: “The Resisters” author Gish) The Resisters, published in 2020, is Gish JEN’s fifth novel. It’s a sci-fi novel set in a dystopian society called “AutoAmerica.” And the story involves baseball –…
