“Transvestite” is listed as offensive in the Times style guide, which prefers “cross dresser,” but the term showed up in a 2013 clue: “Transvestite of song” (answer: LOLA, the subject of a Kinks song that details a romantic encounter at a club in Soho, London between a man and Lola, whose gender is called into question by the narrator). Meanwhile, “Oriental” showed up as a racial descriptor - “Oriental au pair,” or AMAH, and “Oriental royal,” or RAJAH - even after it was banned in the 1999 Times style guide. In other words, not much has changed since racist colonizers invented the term to describe native people living in cold climates on different continents. According to the crossword desk, ESKIMO is still a type of person who lives in an igloo, hunts seals, and is just as likely to be from Nome, Alaska as Nunavut, Canada. The crossword, by its nature, makes the word more offensive by oversimplifying its meaning and depriving it of context. Looking through the archives shows the Times has curbed its use of “Eskimo,” especially in headlines, although it still shows up occasionally and is sanctioned in the style guide. The puzzle uses outdated, offensive terms for people, even if the New York Times itself has moved away from them. The puzzle clearly isn’t seeking new talent or a new audience, and in its stodginess, it becomes clear that it is composed for a very particular reader with a very particular view of the world.ĮSKIMO. Smartphone prejudice aside, the Times crosswords, which have been edited by the famed crossword giant Will Shortz since 1993, are vexing for how outdated some of the clues and answers are, especially since in some cases the terms have been abandoned by the paper itself.
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Even the Times did not come out with its Android app for the puzzle until November 2016, seven years after it introduced an app for iPhone. The answer is that it helps me fall asleep, and there are no other good daily crossword apps for Android. Thesis: The New York Times crossword is very old and very white, which is bad and also makes for a boring puzzle.Īdrianne, then why do you continue to do the puzzle night after night, you ask. Leah is on vacation, so I, Adrianne Jeffries, am writing this week’s Letter.
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