On the back of a box of Great Value cereal (Brown Flakes), a strange crossword. The 15 × 15 grid includes eight two-letter answers and six squares that don’t cross other squares, giving the puzzle something of the look of the simple crosswords that might appear in the back pages of a tabloid. And yet the puzzle includes some wildly out-of-the-way clues and answers:
1-A, five letters, “Egg white.”
1-A, four letters, “Growl.”
13-A, seven letters, “Not freely moving.”
35-A, four letters, “Fetid.”
54-D, four letters, “Portable ice-box.” The Internets tell me that this answer is Australian slang.
I don’t think AI created this puzzle — unless someone forgot to tell it to make every letter cross.
The answers, if you want them, are in the cereal aisle, on the side of the box. Also in the comments.
[Brown Flakes: à la Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.]
Friday, January 31, 2025
A store-brand crossword
By Michael Leddy at 8:10 AM
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GLAIR. GNAR. SESSILE. OLID. ESKY.
I first came across GLAIR as finish for furniture. I suppose ESKY is short foe Eskimo.
Do you recognize them from crosswords? There’s one that got away: 21-A, ”Small cable“: CABLET. (?!)
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