As part of my grueling mountain training regimen to become an elite webshit, I have learned enough CSS to make the Signpost crossword template usable. Essentially, it is a grotesque hack of the InputBox extension — full documentation can be found here — so there are some issues. Namely, if you press "enter" in any of the cells, it will take you to another page. I can't do anything about this. I can change where it goes (enabling the fun surprise you'll see if you do it) but I can't make it go away.
Anyway, here's the deal for this issue: everything is an abbreviation except 1-Across.
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Note: This experimental wikitext-based crossword utility should allow you to click on the boxes and type in letters. Don't press "enter" unless you want to end up on another page.
Across | ||
| 1 | One in real life often causes one on its Wikipedia article | WAR |
| 4 | Where naughty Signpost articles are taken to meet their doom | MFD |
| 5 | Overwhelmed by Neelix | RFD |
| 6 | Policy requiring that sources can be checked | V |
| 7 | Attention, calling all cars, we have a BLP vio in progress on 5th street and Centerline... we have additionally reports of a "poopoo peepee" past uw-4im in the 1600 block of Stamson... exercise extreme caution, suspect may be armed with a proxy... | AIV |
| 10 | Department where employees love adding "mission statement" to the company's infobox | PR |
| 11 | A parenthetical note made in passing | BTW |
| 13 | Where you could take Senkaku Islands and tree shaping edit-warriors to be dealt with, until quite recently | AE |
Down | ||
| 1 | They roll the nickels | WMF |
| 2 | Where the work of 10-across departments tends to wind up | AFD |
| 3 | 5-across deals with, and 2-down can close as | RD |
| 5 | Challenge-pissing extravaganza for demonstrating a need for the tools | RFA |
| 8 | Permission granted to public wifi enjoyers, college editors, and others frequently hit by rangeblocks | IPBE |
| 9 | Celeb email receivers | VRT |
| 12 | Retired annelid arbitrator | WTT |
| 13 | Zoomer/moomer version of "hella"; alternately, camera setting for non-supervised crispness | AF |
Note: the chronologically previous crossword appeared in the 26 June 2022 issue, in the humour column.
Discuss this story
Okay, it's been long enough; I will put the answers in the article. Thanks for pitching in, folks! jp×g🗯️ 02:46, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
As a person who plays crosswords, I didn't enjoy this that much when playing to crossword standards, but hey, it's there. Maybe we could steer the crossword towards hyperfixing on crosswords that look like certain things and punchlines that assemble themselves by other words, like how it does here for 1-across? Aaron Liu (talk) 20:06, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]