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So Close, Yet So Far

An odd piece of bicontinental wordplay.

Posted Monday, July 24, 2000, at 11:30 PM ET

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Matt Gaffney wrote Slate’s weekly crossword from 1999 to 2003. He writes a weekly crossword contest at www.crosswordcontest.blogspot, and is the author of the 2006 book Gridlock: Crossword Puzzles and the Mad Geniuses Who Create Them.

Matt Gaffney wrote Slate’s weekly crossword from 1999 to 2003. He writes a weekly crossword contest at www.crosswordcontest.blogspot, and is the author of the 2006 book Gridlock: Crossword Puzzles and the Mad Geniuses Who Create Them.