Hey! There’s a new monthly crossword contest to check out. It’s part of the Beyond Wordplay newsletter (scroll down). This first one has a contest deadline this Sunday, so click through, download the puzzle (.pdf or .puz), and see if you can get the meta answer. There’s also a link at the top of the newsletter for subscribing via email. So far my only exposure to Beyond Wordplay has been this past Tuesday’s episode of That Word Chat, featuring BW mavens Ben Zimmer, Allegra Kuney, and Eric Chaikin. They had a few games for people on Zoom to compete on—I was a contestant in the spoonerism game and was tied with Dave Shukan till the last one! Ach, I did not go on to the finals. Tyler Hinman won the finals. I loved the various wordplay puzzles Allegra, Eric, and Ben wrote for us. Haven’t had a chance to do the contest puzzle yet—need to blog the Saturday NYT first!—Amy