Reminder: The Crossword Tournament From Your Couch takes place this Saturday online! Something fun to do for all these cruciverbalists in capitivity.
Also: Team Fiend is stretched thin at present, with all the current mayhem, so we appreciate your understanding when some puzzle write-ups are late or absent.
Hello! So there’s no ACPT this weekend, but there is a Crossword Tournament From Your Couch instead. You can solve on the web or in .puz format, starting at 1 pm Eastern/10 am Pacific. The virtual hosts (xword podcasters Brian Cimmet and Ryan Hecht) will be in a livestream, and the five (or more!) puzzles have been made by Patrick Blindauer, Laura Braunstein & Jesse Lansner, Rachel Fabi, Joel Fagliano, Finn Vigeland, and Byron Walden. Finn and Kevin Der are the brilliant chaps organizing all this. Kevin has an amazing tech résumé so I’m confident they’ll pull the whole thing off.
The event is free (we’re encouraged to donate to COVID-19 relief efforts). Puzzle scoring reflects both accuracy and speed, and we’ll all be on the honor system. (Please: no pandemic profiteering through cheating on crosswords.)
In addition to the event link above, there’s also a Facebook event page.