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Crossword

when the crossword is sus

As part of my grueling mountain training regimen to become an elite webshit, I have learned enough CSS to make the Signpost crossword template usable. Essentially, it is a grotesque hack of the InputBox extension — full documentation can be found here — so there are some issues. Namely, if you press "enter" in any of the cells, it will take you to another page. I can't do anything about this. I can change where it goes (enabling the fun surprise you'll see if you do it) but I can't make it go away.

Anyway, here's the deal for this issue: everything is an abbreviation except 1-Across.

..	..	..	..	..	.
..	..	1 .	2 .	3 .	.
..	..	4 .	.	.	.
..	5 .	.	.	..	.
..	.	..	..	6 .	.
..	7 .	8 .	9 .	..	.
..	..	10 .	.	..	.
..	..	11 .	.	12 .	.
..	13 .	.	..	.	.
..	.	..	..	.	.
..	..	..	..	..	.

Note: This experimental wikitext-based crossword utility should allow you to click on the boxes and type in letters. Don't press "enter" unless you want to end up on another page.

Across
1	One in real life often causes one on its Wikipedia article	WAR
4	Where naughty Signpost articles are taken to meet their doom	MFD
5	Overwhelmed by Neelix	RFD
6	Policy requiring that sources can be checked	V
7	Attention, calling all cars, we have a BLP vio in progress on 5th street and Centerline... we have additionally reports of a "poopoo peepee" past uw-4im in the 1600 block of Stamson... exercise extreme caution, suspect may be armed with a proxy...	AIV
10	Department where employees love adding "mission statement" to the company's infobox	PR
11	A parenthetical note made in passing	BTW
13	Where you could take Senkaku Islands and tree shaping edit-warriors to be dealt with, until quite recently	AE
Down
1	They roll the nickels	WMF
2	Where the work of 10-across departments tends to wind up	AFD
3	5-across deals with, and 2-down can close as	RD
5	Challenge-pissing extravaganza for demonstrating a need for the tools	RFA
8	Permission granted to public wifi enjoyers, college editors, and others frequently hit by rangeblocks	IPBE
9	Celeb email receivers	VRT
12	Retired annelid arbitrator	WTT
13	Zoomer/moomer version of "hella"; alternately, camera setting for non-supervised crispness	AF

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Where are the answers?-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 12:49, 24 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@TonyTheTiger: It's usually in the next edition. igordebraga ≠ 00:16, 25 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This was fun, thanks! (Although I'm still working on 13 down, 9 down, and 10 across. (I expected 10 across to be "COI" but that doesn't fit...) 🎄Cremastra 🎄 (talk) 13:15, 24 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I enjoyed it. Thank you to the authors of the crossword. I don't participate in 2-down, do they really abbreviate 3-down like that? Because the WP:WP shortcut of 3-down is for something else, and it has a hatnote for 3-down. —⁠andrybak (talk) 14:37, 24 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I never knew I needed Wikipedia crosswords. Ca ^{talk to me!} 04:36, 30 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Okay, it's been long enough; I will put the answers in the article. Thanks for pitching in, folks! jp×g 🗯️ 02:46, 7 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks for the answers!
As a person who plays crosswords, I didn't enjoy this that much when playing to crossword standards, but hey, it's there. Maybe we could steer the crossword towards hyperfixing on crosswords that look like certain things and punchlines that assemble themselves by other words, like how it does here for 1-across? Aaron Liu (talk) 20:06, 7 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The Signpost is looking for new talent.

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