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@bessbell 💯 Sincerely, yr former Indy co-editor

I understand you’re up in arms that the deeply, integrally Jewish paper The New York Times printed an accidental fill-in-the-blank swastika with the crossword puzzle’s rotational symmetry, but have you considered taking a nice walk outside or perhaps eating a lil something?

This exact grid has appeared in the NYT 30 times. H/t @MF_wordz

Here are just SOME examples of similar-looking grids to Sunday’s alleged ‘swastika’ in the NYT. Again: the allegation that Sunday’s puzzle was anything other than an excellent Sunday crossword with NORMAL rotational symmetry is…an absurd conspiracy.

@danfeyer 10000%.

@crossnerds I feel like we gotta stop fighting this! You can't win against stupid, especially when both the right and left are frothed up. It's up to Shortz to address it.

#crosswordtwitter: can someone please help find similar-looking ‘whirlpool’ grids to Sunday’s? I think it’ll be helpful for ppl to see that this grid is not highly unusual, and similar shapes appear in the NYT and elsewhere.

@BobbyBowwers @jordanliles @snopes This is a technicality—but I am arguing it because the Snopes opinion that this is TRUE ignores the context and implications in favor of technicality.

@BobbyBowwers @jordanliles @snopes Correct! It wasn’t the first day of Hanukkah: it was the first night. The NYT puzzle was for Sunday, which was not a Jewish holiday.

Some ppl (especially on the right) are saying that Sunday’s #nytxw looked like a swastika, thus implying that the NYT is anti-Semitic. THIS IS A CONSPIRACY THEORY. I’m Jewish and understand the sensitivity, but the grid was simply a function of traditional symmetry constraints.

.@jordanliles I strongly recommend reconsidering your assessment on @snopes and would be happy to discuss. In addition to it not actually being a swastika, it is also FALSE that it was the first day of Hanukkah.

I’m sure that no harm was intended by @NYTimesWordplay.

@keithedwards @nytimes So it’s actually hard to get a grid to NOT look like a swastika because of traditional symmetry constraints. As a Jewish crossword commentator, it‘s unfortunate, but I sympathize with the conundrum and am confident that no harm was intended.

This is the NYTimes crossword puzzle today on the first day of Hanukka. What the hell, @nytimes?

@gossipbabies Just want to point out that it’s actually hard to get a grid NOT to look like a swastika—due to traditional symmetry constraints! Also, technically it wasn’t Hanukkah yet.

I mean she’s not wrong

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