A Puzzle Title Can Be Just As Hard to Nail As a Clue

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 I really didn't want to title last Wednesday's puzzle  "Lost in Translation." That was the one about the hit South Korean show "Squid Game," whose English subtitles have been criticized by some Korean speakers as being not great.   Sure, "Lost in Translation" would've been perfectly cromulent for this, but it's become overused as a puzzle title in recent years for any crossword whose theme has anything to do with translating. So I thought I'd try to come up with something different.   First step: I began to free-associate with the word squid: tentacles, calamari, "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" (spoiler alert there, sorry), ink...   Aha! Ink could be something. A squid releases ink to confuse and distract predators, and hey -- bad subtitles, if you speak both relevant languages well, are a confusing distraction as well. So I decided to go with "Ink Cloud" instead of "Lost in Translation" there.   Did I choose the right title? Tell me why, in either English or Korean, by tweeting to #beastxword. If you come up with a better title I'll post a "Squid Game" GIF in your honor. 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.