Will Shortz on The Daily Show tonight

[dougo]

Will Shortz, the current New York Times crossword puzzle editor and NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzlemaster (and the former editor of Games magazine), will be appearing on Comedy Central's The Daily Show With Jon Stewart tonight at 11pm. (It will also be shown tomorrow at 1am, 10am, and 7pm-- Comedy Central is nothing if not thorough.)

Here's an amusing anecdote from an article about him:

The puzzle that elicited the most response appeared on Election Day, 1996. The clue to the middle answer across the grid was "Lead story in tomorrow's newspaper." The answer appeared to be CLINTON ELECTED. Because of intentional ambiguity in the crossing clues, however, the answer could also have been BOB DOLE ELECTED. Either answer fit. For example, the crossing clue "Black Halloween animal" could have been either BAT or CAT, with the C for CLINTON or the B the start of BOB DOLE. "It was the most amazing crossword I've ever seen," Mr. Shortz said. "As soon as it appeared, my telephone started ringing. Most people said, "How dare you presume that Clinton will win!" And the people who filled in BOB DOLE thought we'd made a whopper of a mistake!

Comments

[chrismwage.livejournal.com]

That's awesome.