No correct answers. No hope of ever solving puzzle.
Meaningless. Just like life itself."
by LittleRoamingChief
is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Summary
- This course is intended to increase your appreciation
of how crosswords are designed and constructed. - Insights about themes and clues might also improve your solving abilities.
- Its basic guidance, tools and resources may help,
especially if you have ever considered constructing puzzles yourself. - The potential benefits of solving crosswords apply also to constructing crosswords,
-- analogous perhaps to other areas of creative effort & experience? - solver -- constructor
- reader -- author
- student -- teacher
- art lover -- artist
- app user -- software designer
- For more of this philosophical approach, peruse my essay: The Art of Crosswords.
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An animated gif of MRI images of a human head
from Dwayne Reed;
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
Unported license from Wikimedia Commons - Fun; Humor; Distraction; Joy -- Pandemics
- Challenge; Creativity; Problem Solving
- Language Skills; Vocabulary
- General Knowledge; Trivia
- Financial, e.g., Crossword Publisher Rates: NYT, LAT, et al.
- General Health; Cognitive Fitness
- Relationships
- Fame, e.g., Ashland amateur crossword puzzle creator’s work scores in the NYT Oregonian; Janet Eastman; 11/1/2023
- What's So Great About Writing Crosswords, Anyway? DB; 4/5/2021
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