This is the illusionist, in which I, Helen Zaltzman, search for the hidden meaning in language.
Shuffle those letters around.
Gnu algae.
That's it.
It was staring us in the face this entire time.
Welcome to another installment in the wordplay series about word games and word puzzles.
This episode is about crosswords.
Crosswords have come up a couple of times before in the show.
One of the very earliest episodes was about how british style cryptic crosswords work.
And in the 2017 episode encrypt Decrypt, I covered the Lollapazula crossword tournament in New York City.
Today.
We hear from some people doing some very cool stuff in crosswords in the USA content note there is one category, b swear.
By the way, if you're in the UK, you can listen to the illusionist on BBC sounds, and while you're there, you'll find so much more to listen to in the this genre.
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You know, where you receive shots of facts down the ice luge of fun audio diversions like Crowd Science, the podcast where they answer your questions about science with the help of smart people from all around the world and discover extra surprises along the way.
I've been asked a lot of questions in my time, a lot.
And still I've never thought of some of these.
What was the time that the first clock was set to?
And some questions I've never found an answer to.
Like what's the best way to make a decision?