Remember how I plugged the charity Queer Qrosswords collection several weeks ago? There’s another puzzle suite out there that benefit charities and quenches your puzzle-solving thirst. Patti Varol and Amy Reynaldo have edited a new set of 18 crosswords called “Women of Letters.” This is a puzzle set constructed entirely by women. Considering how few women crossword constructors are currently published in newspapers, this is a valuable corrective — and the puzzle writers are all top-notch. Just donate $10 to one of the listed charities, email your receipt or a screenshot of your receipt to WomenofLettersCrosswords@gmail.com, and you’ll be good to go.
Five tech companies — computer companies, to be specific — have been crunched into rebus squares:
This was one of those situations where “less is more” worked out better for me. I had some additional theme answers planned, like SAINT ELMO’S FIRE to hide INTEL and LENA OLIN to hide AOL. The problem is that neither AOL nor Intel makes computers. Intel makes computer chips and processors (and I suppose MICROPROCESSORS might have been an apt revealer for that), but I think the final product made for a tighter theme set. Hopefully you could sniff out the companies even if you weren’t completely familiar with them. (For what it’s worth, ASUS has been my laptop brand for five years now. No joke.)
See you next Sunday and — like I mentioned last week — the May 6 puzzle will also be on the more challenging side.
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