The Delicious World of Food Clues in Crosswords

Have you done this week's crosswords?

Subscribe The Daily Beast Crossword is where power, pop culture, and politics intersect—quite literally.   Designed to be more challenging throughout the week, you can test your knowledge with five puzzles each week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday. Get a Clue This week's challenging clue: 83-year-old George with 1.4 million Instagram followers (Sunday, 19 Down)   Want a hint for this one? Check the bottom of this newsletter. Play This Week's Puzzles Get in the Game With Matt Gaffney You usually don't have to bother eating before solving a crossword, since there'll probably be some food in the grid for you to chow down on anyway. You've surely seen many a piece of EDAM cheese in grids over the years, but our menu in last week's puzzles included AHI tuna, PHO, and NAAN.  As with geographical place names in grids, food can also be a gateway to learning about the wider world. Constructor Sid Sivakumar makes a point of leaving some Indian food for solvers to snack on in his puzzles, and not just the widely familiar NAAN and ROTI: DAL, IDLI, DOSA, LASSI, and many more have either already made it into one of Sid's puzzles or soon will.  Speaking of LASSI, don't forget the drinks: generic ALE, TEA, NOG and COLA are commonly seen in crossword grids. NEHI is practically the unofficial soda of crosswords, with BARQ'S a fun runner-up with its unusual Q-not-followed-by-a-U. OUZO is a favorite liqueur, with its many vowels and rare-letter Z, and SKYY vodka is fun with its double-Y. Spanish-language AGUA is commonly seen as well. And for dessert? ECLAIR and SMORES have nice letters and are often seen, but no one can top the vowel-heavy OREO— a fitting super-popular end to a crossword meal, since, like a crossword grid, it's black-and-white as well.  What's a food you'd like to see in a grid? Tweet it to #beastxword and our chefs will get right on it. Play This Week's Puzzles © Copyright 2020 The Daily Beast Company LLC  555 W. 18th Street, New York NY 10011  Privacy Policy If you are on a mobile device or cannot view the images in this message, click here to view this email in your browser. To ensure delivery of these emails, please add emails@thedailybeast.com to your address book. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, or think you have received this message in error, you can safely unsubscribe. HINT: (Sunday, 19 Down): You may know him as Captain Sulu