The Art Of Culturally Relevant Crosswords

Crossword editors are strange arbiters of cultural relevance. Read tweets by Awkwafina or Olivia Wildeon learning that they’ve been immortalized in the black-and-whitegrid—it’s the bookish version of handprints on a slab outside Grauman’sChinese Theatre. But any pub-trivia attendee—exposed to categories oncraft beer or things that smell like sourdough or whatever the emcee isinto—will tell you that personnel is policy.– The Atlantic