There’s Nothing but Love For Tennis Player Clues

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 The US Open winds up today, and it's been a good one, for both tennis fans and crossword fans alike.    The men's side has mostly seen the big guns emerge on top -- DJOKOVIC, ZVEREV, and MEDVEDEV all made it to the semifinals, with names too long and Scrabbly to be of much use in puzzles. My horses in the race were #8 seed Casper RUUD (loving those double-U's), 23-year-old Frenchman UGO Humbert, and Germany's Oscar OTTE. None got very far, though.    The women's side had much more crossword-friendly action: ARYNA Sabalenka made it to the semifinals; not quite enough to make her puzzleworthy yet, but it's a start. ELINA Svitova really needs to win a major sometime, as we don't really have a good Elina yet and it'd be extremely useful with its alternating vowels and consonants.   Couldn't ask for much more from yesterday's final, though, where EMMA Radacanu and LEYLAH Fernandez squared off. Always nice to have another Emma for clues, and LEYLAH is handy enough that crossword writer Ben Tausig tweeted himself adding her name to his wordlist: Any U.S. Open wordplay you'd like to share? Tweet it to #beastxword so the whole stadium can see. 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.