My Mom used to enjoy doing the Washington Post crossword puzzle. I would attempt to do it too but usually would give up about halfway thru out of frustration because I couldn’t figure it out. I would later ask Mom about it because I knew that she had solved it.
Now remember, all this was back in the good old days when both Mom and I received a hard copy of the newspaper. Today, I work the puzzle on line where they feature a Reveal Button that allows me to cheat and look up the answer(s.) (The Washington Post has a paywall, but they use the LA Times puzzle which is available online for free if you want to check it out (click here.))
The Friday puzzle is generally a little harder to do than the previous ones in the week. Monday’s is the easiest and I can vouch for that because it is the only one of the week where I don’t have to cheat to solve it.
However, today, I cheated and I cheated a lot by hitting the Reveal Button several times. But guess what? Even after I had completed the puzzle, I still could not decipher what the hell the main theme i.e. the 4 big answers/clues were talking about. Here they are:
Assuming that you didn’t bother going to the LA Times site to solve the puzzle for yourself, here then are the hi-lited answers to these 4 clues.
Get it? Well, neither did I. Unfortunately there was no Reveal Button to explain what it all meant.