Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2024-10-19/Crossword
Crossword
Spilled Coffee Mug
...if it doesn't look like anything, squint harder. As always, click on the squares to type your letters, but don't press enter. You've been warned.
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||||
5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
9 | |||||||||
10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | ||||||
14 | 15 | ||||||||
16 | 17 | ||||||||
18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | ||||||
22 |
Across | ||
| 1 | Proud owner of "the only man-made talk page that can be seen from space" | EENG |
| 5 | (-ing) Eventual fate of death-defying articles | SALTING |
| 9 | (acronym) The don't-be-a-meanie policy | NPA |
| 11 | (shortcut) The guideline for Michael Jordan and LeBron James, circular structures | HOOPS |
| 14 | (acronym) 2012 bill Wikipedia blacked-out for | SOPA |
| 15 | Pasta recipe #2: Put the water to a ____, Across 5 to preference. | BOIL |
| 16 | (shortcut) When you have 10,000 edits and still add unsourced statements | CIR |
| 17 | Troublemaker's fish | TROUT |
| 18 | Acronym to use when the subject goes by a lot of names | AKA |
| 20 | (shortcut) MOS section on cross-referencing articles | XREF |
| 22 | (acronym) Corp department, the bane of reviewers | PR |
Down | ||
| 1 | First part of the Spanish Wikipedia's url | ES |
| 2 | ___wig, copyvio finder, named after a bug | EAR |
| 3 | Shortcut to the WikiProject for Amsterdam, Anne Frank, and Van Gogh | NL |
| 4 | (acronym) A gaggle of | GT |
| 6 | Fact panel that led to a 2013 ARBCOM case | INFOBOX |
| 7 | Famous P versus __ problem in computer science | NP |
| 8 | (acronym) Designation picky about MOS:LAYOUT but not MOS:DAB | GA |
| 10 | Splitting, but good for pastas | FORK |
| 11 | Shorthand for a template for closing discussions, now expanded to also mean collapsing comments | HAT |
| 12 | Pasta recipe #1: ____ water into a pot. | POUR |
| 13 | Where spiders build their nets, a source type | SITE |
| 14 | (acronym) List articles, but fancier | SIA |
| 19 | (acronym) First news agency to have reported on 9/11, known for its namesake stylebook | AP |
| 21 | (acronym) 8 down, but all of the MOS pages matter this time | FA |
Discuss this story
Whoops, looks like we've got a dark-mode issue here as well — the box numbers are rendering in white-on-white, since they were never given an explicit foreground color. I'll look at fixing up the TemplateStyles. FeRDNYC (talk) 15:25, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I guess the answers never actually got added for this one -- so I took the quickest route, which was just to solve it myself and mark them appropriately. I think I will need help with the last one (as well as confirmation on the rest): @Ca: jp×g🗯️ 21:17, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]