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Enjoying the hell out of this, but back to the crosswords, a recurring theme here; this is really getting under my skin: The authors bring up a hypothetical crossword puzzle word, germane to the current situation, e.g. "T.I.M.O.R.O.U.S. Eight across, another name for coward." Listen, eight across refers to the square the word starts in and the direction it goes. It does NOT refer to the number of letters in the word.

Amma, an avid NY Times crossword puzzle buff, threatens to CASTIGATE Ethan if he is late for school again, giving him the clue, "Confinement or pain exacted for wrong-doing'." She should know, the form of the word (verb), should maych that of the clue. So she should have said, "To confine or exact pain. . ."
Just sayin'.
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