We see it a lot, so I took a look at the usage in the New York Times crossword: Since 1993 (as far as the XWord Info database goes back), OREO has appeared 214 times, with as many creative clues as constructors can dream up.
You'll be PLEASED to find that even frequently used answers are wearing their Sunday best, dressed up in creative new clues.
The Will room ditches the standard key-and-code routine common at many rooms for highly creative and entertaining clues made from everyday objects.
But when scanning his desk at Remedy Entertainment, the Espoo-based studio where he serves as the creative director, for clues as to what inspires him to write games that tap into American culture, one thick tome stands out.
His new book from Grand Central Publishing, "Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind," offers a clue about why: He seems to be quite a nice guy.
Their instructions should take the form of clues, using creative yet concise language (provide an example, as necessary), and fit on a single sheet of paper.
Are they meant to serve as clues or creative offerings unto themselves?
But when scanning his desk at Remedy Entertainment, the Espoo-based studio he's the creative director of, for clues as to what inspires him to write games that tap into American culture, one thick tome stands out.
And they kept the kids busy with art projects that seemed freighted with meaning, as if a child's creative output might hold a clue to her fate.
Ms. Chandler wrote comedy routines in secret, hoping one day to perform them on stage, and in the process, turned their 400-square-foot apartment in Seattle into the equivalent of a game of "Clue," concealing her creative jottings inside books, in Tupperware containers stacked high on closet shelves and behind framed pictures on the wall.
