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xkcd #2896: Crossword Constructors
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Also, we would really appreciate it if you could prominently refer to it as an 'eHit'.
These are all short words full of the most common letters, so will make designing crosswords easier because they'll be useful "crossers".
But why references to musicians?
These specific musicians are referenced a lot by crosswords. NYT loves them, at least. Very “hip and with it”.
It’s kinda an inside joke, but that’s XKCD for ya.
Thanks, that’s what I needed
I assume it's just an example of how to create new topical words since it's a lot easier to name an album than to get a word well-known enough to be eligible for the dictionary.
The artists all seem to be big names so I assume it's their popularity rather than any history of quirky album names that's decided the list.
I assumed it was because those musicians are popular enough that even if they released songs/albums with the title scheme akin to svnahshfhfbduj people would still buy them and know about them.
Are we called crossers?
Oh the crossword cross-er. Thought it was a cool new “puzzle head” term I hadn’t heard. Misread. I’m dumb at crosswords too.
https://explainxkcd.com/2896