The Golden Clues from the 2020 Olympics

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 Gotta love it when theme letters work out as nicely as they did on Wednesday. With the Tokyo Olympics here, I noticed that two of Japan's biggest cities could be found in two great athletes' names: NAOMI OSAKA and KOBE BRYANT (Osaka and Kobe are the third- and sixth-biggest cities in Japan, to be precise).   Also working out great: that Naomi Osaka is competing in the Olympics for the first time this month (with tennis now an Olympic sport), and that the late, great Kobe Bryant won two Olympic gold medals for basketball in 2008 and 2012. So everything is teeing up for a nice little theme, but...will the letters work out?   Yes, they will! Both 10 letters long, which is perfect for a 10x10 grid. If one of those names had been 9 or 11 letters, then the theme wouldn't fit in the grid and would've had to be scrapped. But the Crossword Gods were smiling that day, and when that happens, there's nothing you can't achieve in a crossword grid.   Do you think crossword writing should be an Olympic sport in 2024? Sound off by tweeting to #beastxword. If we can make it happen, I'll see you in Paris in four years! 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.