Back from Sandy and still on our reduced television kick, Grant and I decided to do the puzzles in The Age. We started out with the quiz, moved on to the quick crossword, had a stab at Target and finished off with two other word puzzles.
We were quite proud of ourselves managing to complete both of the latter puzzles. Then we noticed that they were titled 'Under Age'. There are two options when considering this title and both make me feel dumb. Option 1: This is a section for young people, calling into question our mental abilities. Option 2: The title, Under Age, is some sort of clever play on words using the name of the newspaper. But I can't work out what it is, once again calling into question my mental abilities.
Interesting to note that the solutions for the puzzle from the day before seemed to be on some sort of bushfire theme. Maybe I'm reading too much into that. Not sure what the theme of the puzzle we did was. Sounds political.
General Sumo recommends:
Doing puzzles in the paper together
This is our new after dinner activity and I'm loving it, even though The Age makes me feel stupid. We've been looking up new words on Dictionary.Com and researching crossword answers on Wiki, those infinite sources of infallible knowledge. I was a little mad that The Age didn't recognize 'fuck' as a legitimate answer for Target. It's a word! It was the first word I found.
Looking up the solution words from yesterday's Target.
Who knew 'tufa' and 'kerf' were words?
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