The Rise and Fall of Soccer (or Football) Clues Last Week

Have you done this week's crosswords?

Manage newsletters 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. Play This Week's Puzzles Get in the Game With Matt Gaffney Crossword puzzle publishing tends to move at a glacial pace, but not here at the Daily Beast! We're quick with our puzzles, as we proved last week.    Monday's news cycle featured the announcement of a brand-new "Super League" in European soccer, with twelve major teams agreeing, in a surprise announcement, to form a new federation that would play games during the week.    Seemed like a good idea for a puzzle, and the letters worked out nicely, with REAL MADRID (one of the 12 teams) and MANCHESTER (home to Man Utd. and Man City, two of the 12 teams) at 10 letters apiece. So I wrote the puzzle, and up it went on Tuesday morning with the title "Kicking Up A Storm." Let's see you do that, New York Times crossword!   And then Wednesday's news cycle began, and it wasn't good for the fledgling league. As USA Today reported: "Two days after it was announced, the 12-team Super-League is collapsing after several clubs announced they are withdrawing."    Not good for the league's founders, but good for our crossword, since the puzzle ran on the one day when it was relevant! You snooze, you lose, but we were alert at the key moment for this one (like, say, a striker or a goalie).     Were you sad, mad, or glad about the Super-League's breakup? Tweet your football feelings to #beastxword. Play This Week's Puzzles © Copyright 2021 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.