You know you do, especially if you’ve been reading Wordplay for a while, because we’ve talked about this trick. It’s asking you to figure out what property the letter C (for “Can”) has, and today the answer is a HARD C.20A: Hi, kids! If you are wondering why ICE is considered an “Old fashioned cooler?” (I mean, we still have ice, right? Then people would buy more ice from the ice peddlers on the street to replace it. Because a bomb can be both an explosive or a movie that fails at the box office.
Source: New York Times August 31, 2018 01:52 UTC