![]() “But I assure you this viewpoint is expressed with a pure heart.”Ī response from Will Shortz about the entry 2D in today's crossword puzzle. “I want your focus to be on the puzzle rather than being distracted by side issues,” Shortz said. We put up with this nice of New York Times Monday Crossword Puzzles. Shortz added that if enough people are offended, he would rethink this opinion on benign uses of otherwise offensive slurs.Īlso Read: USA Today Cuts Ties With Crossword Editor in Plagiarism Scandal Will Shortz has been the crossword puzzle editor of The New York Times since 1993. These are legitimate words,” Shortz said. (which we clued last April as “Proceed all right,” but which as a solid word is a slur), CHINK (which is benign in the sense as a chink in one’s armor,” etc. “This is an issue that comes up occasionally with entries like GO O.K. The original clue to 2-Down in Tuesday’s puzzle, which was written by Gary Cee, was “Pitch to the head, informally.” And Shortz defended the use of the word by explaining that in past puzzles, a “benign” meaning of the word was fair game. “It is simply not acceptable in The New York Times Crossword and we apologize for including it.” “Tuesday’s Crossword puzzle included an entry that was offensive and hurtful,” a spokesperson for the New York Times told TheWrap. “Meanwhile, for any solver who was offended by 2-Down in today’s puzzle, I apologize.”Īlso Read: 'Weird Al' Yankovic Wrote a NY Times Crossword Puzzle, and It's Pretty Cheesy Maybe we live in rarefied circles,” Shortz said in a statement issued to Twitter. “Neither Joel nor I had ever heard the slur before – and I don’t know anyone who would use it. The answer to clue 2-Down in Tuesday’s puzzle was “BEANER,” which is a derogatory term used for people of Hispanic origin. New York Times crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz issued an apology late Tuesday for a word used in the New Year’s Day puzzle that was considered by some readers as an offensive slur. ![]()
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