Paolo Pasco
@gpaolopasco
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who called it “camelCase” and not “late capitalism”
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last time tweeting about a crossword solving time i promise
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this will be either the easiest or hardest nyt puzzle this year. only way to know for sure is to solve it i guess
#nytxw
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I said I'd give myself time to get my thoughts together after
#ACPT2024
but they've pretty much constantly been "what!!! what the!!!" so just gonna post through it. Surreal weekend, which I'm still trying to wrap my head around
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Okay I lied
Got today's New Yorker! This is the most significant thing that will happen to me today
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Best possible outcome of cowriting a Times puzzle; Dr. Ruth, thank you a thousand times
If you're a fan of the NY Times crossword puzzle, I can give you a hint to one of the clues...it's me!
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#ACPT
rocked! Had only set the bar for "get the Junior prize" so everything else was a sweet bonus. Great meeting everybody, pictured and not—already looking forward to the next one!
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So when Will was talking about how meaningful it was to have someone by his side for all that time in the hospital, that really resonated. It means a lot to have people be there for you. I hope he felt that support from everyone at the tournament. He's a champ
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one day people will be talking about the languages they learned or the cool hobbies they took up during quarantine, meanwhile when it is my turn i will try to show them a little achievement for putting letters in boxes
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the flash : me,
@bewildering_ly
,
@xandraladee
:: the Speed Force : the New Yorker themeless constructing roster
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in which i show significant restraint by only mentioning taylor swift once (many thanks to
@NYTimesWordplay
and
@DebAmlen
for the opportunity!)
Meet
@gpaolopasco
, one of our talented constructors. He's been constructing for 10 years, solves in pencil, and will probably sing Taylor Swift at karaoke.
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just wanna be that mysterious guy in movies who’s standing on a street corner, then a box truck passes by, and he’s vanished. who do i talk to to make this happen
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time to take a biiig sip of water and check my twitter timeline
PSA for anybody else who owns these cups!!!!! They have 10000x the legal amount (today) of lead in the paint and CADMIUM
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check out my latest AV club puz to solve the clue that made megan amram say this! there are other clues too but they don’t matter to me
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Talkin to the boss about puzzles and Madame Web
The winner of this year’s American Crossword Puzzle Tournament is
@gpaolopasco
, a crossword contributor for The Atlantic. In the Good Word, Caleb Madison asks the champion about his tips and tricks for the game:
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me: alright brain, know that person i just met? all you gotta do is remember their name
my brain: mm nope
also my brain, unprompted: you know, MEAT SWEATS is really the same five characters repeated but with the first one upside-down, and th
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ran the numbers on everything i've done this year and unfortunately nothing has topped writing this clue
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jazzed for 2018 👇
In 2018 the AVCX is adding
@gpaolopasco
, one of the best and most versatile young constructors on the scene, to our regular rotation! He's made a bunch of great puzzles for us as a guest, and he's fantastic; we're humbled and excited.
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in the “yesterday” universe, hundreds of tribute crosswords by boomers have disappeared from the NYT archives. everyone scrambling to find a new band to write puzzles about
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didn't think this puzzle would be my new saturday record, but isn't life funny sometimes
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crossword twitter! started a playlist with a very familiar constraint, feel free to add any songs u like that fulfill it
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[trying to go viral on twitter] Jesus' greatest miracle? Having 12 close friends in his thirties [riding the high, forgetting what makes jokes relatable] instead of a thousand
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That was an intense vibe shift in the thread but—all that is to say it's a blessing just to be around today. The doctors weren't sure if I'd even be able to go back to school, but by the grace of God things got better. Couldn't even imagine this happening if you asked me in 2011
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YES seven songs from the cats 2019 soundtrack were on my spotify wrapped, YES that is almost half the soundtrack, YES macavity was
#3
most played, NO i will not elaborate
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excited to release Expansion Pack, a pay-what-you-want crossword suite with nine puzzles of all sizes (3x3 all the way to 17x17)! more details in the link below
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❤️❤️❤️
👀 Today’s
@TheAtlantic
crossword: 8-Across “Author of Pachinko and Free Food for Millionaires.” Am honored that the name which kids used to make fun of (e.g. sounds like a panda’s name 🤦🏻♂️) has now become the crossword puzzle answer for
@TheAtlantic
&
@nytimes
(6/4/21) in 2021.
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prove you're a genius 👇👇👇
It was the honor of a lifetime to write THE IMPOSSIBLE CROSSWORD with genius and fellow Cats (2019) fan
@gpaolopasco
for the New Yorker’s first-ever Cartoons & Puzzles issue!
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i could never be the main character in a musical, but i could definitely be the person who throws an object (broom, towel, tool, etc.) for the plucky main character to catch mid-song
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i'm up this week at the atlantic! solve if you're a fan of "clues about things paolo likes"
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Had a great time talking to
@honi_soit
and being confronted with how often I say "such as" in my day to day
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the last rambo movie should have been called “ladies and gentlemen, this is Rambo No. 5”
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if performing religious ceremonies for a buzzing insect is wrong, then i don’t want a bee rite
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more details at the link, but send me (at pascopuzzles [at] gmail [dot] com) a screenshot of your donation to a BLM fund of your choice and i'll send you a new 17x themeless
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@VeraDrew22
Oh hey I wrote that puzzle (and 6-Down was the entry that I built the grid around)!
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i’ve wanted to hit this goal ever since i saw this tweet. made it for the first time this week!
Didn't wanna jinx it, but now that I've solved the Sunday NYT puz I'm happy to report that this Mon-Sun NYT cycle is the first one in my records that I've solved in under 20 total minutes. 19:31 for the week.
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finally the av club has a pao.* streak
"From Bad to Verse" by
@gpaolopasco
hitting your inbox about now. It's the first time we've ever published puzzles by people named Pao or Paolo in two consecutive weeks. It's also a really good puzzle (like Pao's was), though Paolo must have been in a foul mood when making it ...
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when mina kimes tweets about a crossword you co-constructed (cc
@aaaronson
)
when one of the long clues on the Saturday crossword is sports related
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a duck walks up to a lemonade stand and he says to the man running the stand, “hey, got any grapes?” the man says “i can’t give grapes to this duck, he is my son!” how is this possible?
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waiting for La La Land (2016) to reenter the public conversation so i can unleash the zinger “La La Land? more like Blah Blah Bland!!”
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at a college visit weekend rn, and the person i’m rooming with is from Natick. this feels like a sign
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After the tournament, my mom reminded me that 4/7 was the 13-year anniversary of the day I went to Children's after feeling pretty bad all week. I was catatonic by 11 AM, had a seizure, went code blue, and went into a coma that lasted a week
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@danfeyer
and
@thatpuzzleguy
, you were the stuff of legends I'd been hearing about since I got into crosswords, so it was exciting and immensely scary to share the stage with you. Incredible solving all around
Anyway pic related
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crossword tweet: just did one (1) usa today puzzle by
@e_a_rly
(“Broken Clocks”) and it’s enough evidence that this is going to be a stellar editorship. so fun, so clean
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i've always wanted to be in a clue, especially in a way that immortalizes me losing to tyler hinman. loved the puzzle
@RichOMalley
(pic credit
@1MatthewStock
)
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Goes without saying that Will and David did not make it easy, and I'm positive both of them are gonna take the trophy home sooner rather than later. Felt lucky to squeak by, because in my mind I was mostly playing for "do not have a wrong square on stage"
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the prison guard tells me i got a cake in the mail. i find a file in it. jackpot. i start to file away the bars, only to find out the file is also a cake
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local theater's having a 3:25 a.m. showing of CATS, and i want to go just to see what kind of person watches a 3:25 a.m. showing of CATS
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WYNA!!!!! the best news
@wynaliu
is having a HUGE September ... Not only does the constructor spotlight shine on her this month, but we would also like to extend a very happy welcome to her as she joins The
@NYTimesGames
team as an associate puzzles editor! Rock it, Wyna!!
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this is my personal Good Place
Thank you to
@gpaolopasco
for putting this A+
@nbcthegoodplace
clue in
@AVCXWord
! Can't wait for this to increase our ratings by what I estimate will be 50 million people!
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@bewildering_ly
absolutely the tweet of someone who's about to put up a 45-er and ruin my whole career
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i wrote today’s
@AVCXWord
, check it out! i really like this one (partly because i finally got to reference The Good Place)
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if you asked me yesterday to pick three people to add to the new yorker team,
@Robynw414
@catybugreid
and
@wynaliu
would be the top of my draft no question. incredible news
It's an honor to join the incredible New Yorker puzzle crew, especially alongside my fellow new constructors
@wynaliu
and
@catybugreid
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youtube has successfully radicalized me into wanting to be an old man who feeds raccoons on a porch
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found puzzle: remove two letters to get what i’m probably gonna do in my future :’)
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Eating food out of enrichment toys to train my spatial reasoning and puzzle-solving skills 💪
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also: v excited to introduce this project! check it out here 👇👇
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bonus clue from the drafts (42A) for all you taylor swift sickos
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talking puzzles with some v cool people tomorrow👇
FRIDAY AT 9AM PT with
@alexismadrigal
:
Puzzle constructors, solvers and lovers
@thegridkid
,
@colossus_rhode
,
@gpaolopasco
&
@saruuuuuuugh
talk why puzzles – from jigsaws to anagrams to Wordle – have been a joy lately.
❓What puzzles do you recommend?
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your dad after self-doubting lecturing you invisible man
🤝
“do i make
myself clear?”
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[me looking at a jackson pollock painting]
weird flecks but ok
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@cimmet
@thegoodevegirls
you edit one to five Cats (2019) references into the USAT and suddenly you're the Cats (2019) guy
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!!!!!
@alinebmckenna
@adityasood
@davidkwong
@shannonwoodward
@clmazin
@chrizmillr
@steveasbell
@zoeinthecities
@rianjohnson
@nytimes
i love a paolo puzz!
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when the cats in CATS try to find where the Idris Elba cat disappeared to, that’s a Macavity search
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wish i had a priv so i could tweet "i'd kill for one of these booklets" and "good morning to the australian olympic kangaroos only" without fear of retribution. but i don't so i won't
So, the Olympics are soon, how is your country trying to drum up national pride?
Well here in Australia, supermarket chain Woolworths (Woolies) is having a collectable sticker series for kids to collect of our athletes with 𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙡𝙮 𝙛𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙮 𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙩𝙨?!
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it’s not writing on the side of a dog, but i’m still proud of the
#mbmbam
easter egg i snuck into a crossword a while back
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glad this account can finally return to its core competency of "i tweet the title of a movie after seeing that movie and really liking it"
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