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Can a crossword be racist?

17 October 201917 October 2019 by Hannah Yang

When Hannah Yang complained about a racist clue in the daily paper, she was reminded of the prevalence of casual racism in New Zealand. I’d never seen a racist clue before. It appeared one morning when I sat down in our break room to look at the day’s cryptic crossword (yes, this is a thing … Read more

Summer reissue: A family spat is playing out via the Dom-Post letters page, and it is kind of wonderful

1 January 2018 by The Spinoff

In which an accountant, his nurse wife, and their lawyer daughter lovingly squabble through letters to the editor, on the subject of the 5-minute quiz. This post was first published on May 28, 2017. Something like the lost epistolary novel of PG Wodehouse has surfaced in the pages of Wellington’s daily paper over the last couple of weeks. … Read more