Beginning esoteric livejournal entry.....NOW.

I know this is going to make me sound like the most curmudgeonly, crotchety grandpa that I sometimes am (though I'm much more often a friendly, Werther's original-giving, cheese-carving and seersucker-wearing old man), but I have to let it out:

These new-fangled crosswords are relying too much on obscure wikipedia-type words to make their puzzles work.

Of course, I know this because I'm constantly GOING to wikipedia to check my work (or occasionally just straight up cheat when its late and I'm tired) and the phrase in the clue is practically verbatim from the entry. Ben Tausig, stop the madness.

Though this specific puzzle I'm doing does include one of my favorite words: quetzalcoatl.

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