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One of the things I enjoy doing is a daily NYT Crossword. Helps me keep my mind right allows me to seek out patterns, themes, and double meanings. This is one of the things that drew me to ‘17’. That and I love this country.
One of the things I enjoy doing is a daily NYT Crossword. Helps me keep my mind right allows me to seek out patterns, themes, and double meanings. This is one of the things that drew me to ‘17’. That and I love this country.
2) In 
2300 we see something a little dasting.
I always thought it was drawing attention to the
Cross and it may be.
But after looking at this again it sort of looks to me like a Crossword answer!
Red Down, Red October Across.
2300 we see something a little dasting.I always thought it was drawing attention to the
Cross and it may be. But after looking at this again it sort of looks to me like a Crossword answer!
Red Down, Red October Across.
3) This lead me to start looking at each Xword with a bit more scrupulous eye and to try and see any other DS connections as it pertains to Crosswords and if [they] could possibly be communicating within the Crossword knowing most of their other comms are being monitored.
4) Will Shortz has been the Xword editor for as long as I’ve been doing them (2002 or so) So I started looking into some of his background. One dasting thing is his love of ping pong...(needs a deeper dive at some point) https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/will-shortz-and-the-ping-pong-prodigy
5) The logo to Will’s Ping Pong Club has some similarities to the below
2 paddles, not crossing but close enough.
2 paddles, not crossing but close enough.
6) One of the first things you see is his documentary ‘Wordplay’ a pretty notable guest star.
7) And then there was this...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/insider/bill-clinton-new-york-times-crossword.html
Written by Will Shortz
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/insider/bill-clinton-new-york-times-crossword.html
Written by Will Shortz
8) First Paragraph:
“Today’s New York Times crossword — for Friday, May 12 — is a collaboration between former President Bill Clinton and the Arkansas district court judge Victor Fleming of Little Rock.”
We have direct contact between BC And the xword creation dept.
“Today’s New York Times crossword — for Friday, May 12 — is a collaboration between former President Bill Clinton and the Arkansas district court judge Victor Fleming of Little Rock.”
We have direct contact between BC And the xword creation dept.
9) Second Paragraph:
“Although the crossword is themeless, as most Friday Times puzzles are, the answer grid has an “Easter egg,” or secret. If you solve the puzzle, see if you can find it. None of the puzzle’s testers noticed it.
Hidden messages.
“Although the crossword is themeless, as most Friday Times puzzles are, the answer grid has an “Easter egg,” or secret. If you solve the puzzle, see if you can find it. None of the puzzle’s testers noticed it.
Hidden messages.
10) Let’s take a look at todays puzzle. Finished it in 24 mins (don’t @ me)
27 Across) have an invisible footprint.
Leave No Trace
27 Across) have an invisible footprint.
Leave No Trace
11) Innocuous enough, but knowing Wikileaks produced atleast 7 reporters from NYT that colluded with DNC and HRC in 2016 I wondered if I could tie one of them to the command.
12) I started looking up each of those reporters in conjunction with the xword and found this known clue...
13) Jump back to today’s puzzle
67 Across) Newspaper opinion pieces
Answer: OPEDS
67 Across) Newspaper opinion pieces
Answer: OPEDS
14) Could this be a signal of some kind for Op-Ed (Gail Collins) to Leave No Trace of communication or evidence of some kind? Maybe a threat?
Any one else seeing any these that they still have access to?
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