![]() ![]() Playing it safe and doing nothing will get you nowhere. If you’re stuck, you need to tiptoe out on a limb and lightly pen in some guesses, which undoubtedly will bust open the puzzle for you. And yes, I like to use a pen because it’s way more fun than using a pencil. I’ve made plenty of mistakes because of my sloppy handwriting or not going back over my answers. My twin sister’s eldest son is a doppelganger of Leonardo DiCaprio, so it’s fun to send my nephew memes of himself, er the actor. As an identical twin, I’m fascinated with the word. Thanks to crosswords, I also now know the meaning of "doppelganger": a biologically unrelated look-alike, or a double, of a living person. In Saturday’s New York Times puzzle, I was down to four blocks when I “cheated” (no cheating that’s another life lesson) and looked up “axolotyl,” an amphibian that rhymes with "bottle" in an Ogden poem. For example, one clue in a recent puzzle was “even things.” Instead of a plural noun, the answer was the verb "atone." Meanwhile, another recent clue was "biblical mount" and the answer wasn’t a mountain (like Sinai or Moriah), but a ride (“ass,” as in donkey). Mulling through the various meanings of words is imperative in solving crossword puzzles. My late father, who was inherently funny, practically spun an entire stand-up comedy routine over the fact that he, or someone else, read, in a camera’s instructions, the noun "wind" (like Oklahoma’s blowing down the plain) versus the verb "wind" (like twist). Make no assumptions and consider all angles in other words, a single word can have several meaningsĪ fond memory of my childhood was when I was a preteen celebrating Christmas with a slew of relatives at my maternal great-aunt’s home in Okay, Oklahoma. ![]() I’ve also learned to see through the tricks in the clues and to embrace other tricks, er life lessons, like these. ![]()
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