Puzzle Guy Gets Cross Words About Crosswords

NEW YORK (AP) -- You'd think the life of the world's premier crossword puzzle editor would be, well, fun and games. But consider this: Make one little mistake, and a world of hungry word fanatics is waiting to pounce.

For Will Shortz, longtime editor of the New York Times crossword puzzle and now subject of the new documentary "Wordplay," those moments come very rarely, maybe a dozen times a year. But they burn. Like when, sometime in the late '90s, he wrote the clue "Louisville landmark." The 9-letter word was RUPPARENA. That's Rupp Arena, in Lexington, Kentucky -- not Louisville. But an overly hasty Internet search steered him wrong. The bad clue went out, and the mail flowed in.

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She loves puzzles (even has a subscription to Games Magazine) and I love documentaries, so we figure this would be a great "date night" movie for us.

Tim