MGWCC #829 — "You In or Out?"

[HunterX]

If only someone would invent some sort of easy-to-use tool that would allow the general public to look up stuff like "What film won the first ever Best Picture Oscar?" or even "Do British people spell the word "Décor" with a "u"?", that would be so amazingly useful.

Well, there have been plenty of times when I went to look something up on the internet and the first 10 results of my query all were ones like:

(Query) crossword clue answer

Though that just tells me I'm looking up something that I probably should know from having done so many crossword puzzles. I can rattle off lots of 3-letter sports figures and musicians!

[Joe Ross]

Always add "crossword" to the end of your searches. It's a big, fat cheat code.

[HoldThatThought]

Here's another helpful hack:

You can predict the number of marriages that a person has had by asking them whether they did crosswords with their spouse, or shared crosswords with their spouse.