{"id":22212,"date":"2017-05-24T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=22212"},"modified":"2017-05-23T08:51:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T12:51:11","slug":"word-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/24\/word-play\/","title":{"rendered":"WORD PLAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cAli\u201d is<\/strong><\/span> a favorite word in crossword puzzles. So are “Mel” and “Ott.” So is “Esai” — as in “Esai Morales,” an actor. Abba “Eban” is big too. A mountain in Italy . . . “Etna”\u00a0 or “Etta”?\u00a0 The first name of\u00a0 Finnish architect Saarinen: Eero or Erno? “Una” Thurman or “Uma?” . . . Judge “Ito.”\"mr<\/p>\n

New York klezmer trumpeter Jordan Hirsch posted on Facebook that he successfully completed the Friday New York Times<\/em> puzzle. Mazel tov. My friend Brit Stenson gets the whole week. He\u2019s been doing crosswords for decades.<\/p>\n

If I<\/strong><\/span> get the Wednesday puzzle, I’m doing good. I started crosswords in 2006, after the documentary movie Word Play.<\/em> When I started, I didn\u2019t know you could use run-together words, such as \u201cLeerat,\u201d which is to \u201ceye lustfully.\u201d Leer at. Sometimes the crosswords clues are off-kilter and unfair. Clue: \u201cAnonymous one, in court.\u201d Answer “Jane Roe.” Doh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cAli\u201d is a favorite word in crossword puzzles. So are “Mel” and “Ott.” So is “Esai” — as in “Esai Morales,” an actor. Abba “Eban” is big too. A mountain in Italy . . . “Etna”\u00a0 or “Etta”?\u00a0 The first name of\u00a0 Finnish architect Saarinen: Eero or Erno? “Una” Thurman or “Uma?” . . . […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22212"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25150,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22212\/revisions\/25150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}