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Hello puzzle lovers! In this newsletter: The anatomy of a Thursday crossword Yesterday’s Thursday crossword for you to solve The Enigmatist Chicago now on sale! In this edition of Enigmatology, I thought it would be fun to shed light on how yesterday’s NYT crossword came together and what went into its construction. Read no further if you’d like to solve it (below) and then please double-back to learn about the process!

It is a tragedy that has haunted and intrigued the world for over a century. On April 15th, 1912, the 'unsinkable' RMS Titanic sank beneath the icy waters of the North Atlantic Ocean, taking with it the lives of over 1,500 people. The disaster has become part of our collective memory, immortalizing in its wake the stories of the passengers who were onboard on that horrible night. From its construction in 1910, to its sinking two short years later, the Titanic was a marvel of engineering prowess.

I would read the London Review of Books from front to back; I had to read it all, from front to back; I couldn’t miss any part of what I then saw as the absolute requirement of reading the London Review of Books and absorbing all of the information contained in the London Review of Books (excluding classifieds and incidental advertising about books, copywriters, book-based dating etc). I certainly couldn’t dip in and out of the London Review of Books.

Let’s talk about money. I know it’s considered somewhat impolite and bad social form, but let’s go there for a minute. Aside from the obvious, like being nosy about other people’s salaries and personal wealth (I am not that uncouth, I promise) I never really understood why it’s something people don’t discuss more openly. I’m not talking about the gossip fueled curiosities of how your neighbor is affording their lifestyle (believe me, I come from Korean culture so I understand this).

While I initially planned to break down the limited but fairly interesting action at the six-day stage race Itzulia Basque Country, which featured an intriguing head-to-head-to-head battle between three of the four top GC favorites for this summer’s Tour de France, a massive crash on an extremely fast descent involving a number of riders, including Jona… ncG1vNJzZmiala68r7DToZypnZykwbC6jaysm6uklrCsesKopGioX528uHnIrbGupJmWeqOt0qqsnmWTpMKvwNGyZJynpaGx

Embedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci. Currently reading: the new Tana French. —Kate For someone who likes to read, I have a hard time with BookTube. It’s such a passionate, thoughtful space, but it seems to be made up of a lot of the same kind of people talking about a lot of the same kinds of books (and not nearly enough focusing solely on my preferred genre: murder mysteries set in the U.

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Let me start this piece off by saying unequivocally that what I’m going to write will come across as far-fetched and unthinkable. It is more a thought exercise I’ve been chewing on for some time, with the possibility it would lead to a column. It arose from the three-part series I wrote starting in 2016. Those three pieces are: "America’s Civic War" published in U.S. News & World Report (February 16, 2016)

How much longer can Twitter last, really? It’s already real bad over there. Elon Musk said yesterday that ad revenues have fallen 50%. The site is experiencing major outages almost once a week. During the most recent outage earlier this week, Elon was laser-focused on the important stuff: reply-guying Jordan Peterson. The Twitter Blue rollout has been such a disaster that he fired almost the entire team. The company isn’t paying rent on its office space.