This scientist’s side hustle is creating crosswords for The New York Times
Dean by day, cruciverbalist by night, Dr. Mark MacLachlan discusses the science behind the art of his hobby as a crossword creator for The New York Times and more.| UBC News
Dean by day, cruciverbalist by night, Dr. Mark MacLachlan discusses the science behind the art of his hobby as a crossword creator for The New York Times and more.| UBC News
August is flying by – with yoga, concerts in the park, a block party and a lovely book event in Cambridge. Here’s what I have been reading: Into the Leopard’s Den, Harini NagendraI loved this fourth entry in Nagendra’s series featuring Kaveri Murthy, a female detective in 1920s India. This book takes Kaveri from her […]| cakes, tea and dreams
A few weeks again, my friend Malaika Handa nerd-sniped me with an interesting request. She is a very prolific crossword constructor (think: multiple publications a week) and she keeps comprehensive records of those publications in a spreadsheet that is always up to date.1 She wanted a site to display that history in a clean and browsable way. You may know about her 7xwords project, which published crosswords for all the possible 7×7 grids over the course of a year, with 6 posts a week. I mad...| parker higgins dot net
In Today’s Crossword, 3-Down, 5-Letters: The “Lobster State”| The Daily Northwestern
I’m releasing new software today for solving crossword puzzles in the terminal. cursewords is a small Python program to open, navigate, and solve puzzles stored as .puz files. If you’re a Mac or Linux user, you can install it today by running pip3 install --user cursewords in your terminal, and then use the cursewords command to open a .puz file on your computer.| parker higgins dot net
