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Quick—what’s a nine-letter word for hours and hours (and hours) of fun? For Grace Tiao ’08, the answer just might be “crossword...
More specifically, a gigantic, enormous, gargantuan crossword. Tiao is the proud owner of one “World’s Largest Crossword,” a massive tapestry of downs and acrosses with over 28,000 clues. The seven-by-seven foot puzzle, which hangs on a wall in Tiao’s room in Weld Hall, was a high school graduation gift. As Tiao explains, “My friend was flying home from MIT’s freshman weekend and saw this puzzle in the Skymall catalog.” (In other news, Tiao?...
...Georgia native began her crossword odyssey in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. As an act of rejection against what she termed the Journal Constitution’s “lackluster” comics page, Tiao began filling out the Sunday crossword. “There was nothing better to do when reading on a Sunday morning,” she says...
...undeniable crossword whiz, but Tiao needs all the help she can get. Just finding the right blank can be a huge challenge on a puzzle with tens of thousands of blanks. Tiao’s friends often help her out when they are in the room. But work is understandably slow-going...
...Tiao says that first-time visitors to the room often make some snide remark like, “Whose is this?” Another of her roommates, Allison A. Frost ’08, also notes that they “have gotten weird looks” about the puzzle. When prompted with the idea of throwing a crossword puzzle party, Tiao remarked, “That would finish off my social life for good...