A Complaint About the NYT Crossword's Football Chants
Just a minor snit here, really, but as an avid NYT Crossword enjoyer (for my sins), I continue to get annoyed at their use of the answer OLE
as the clue answer to a whole host of varieties of "football chant" or "Cry at a World Cup match", etc.
As someone who has done several hundred NYT crosswords, when you see anything to do with football or chanting, you know it's going to be OLE
, without even having to think, even though it's one of the least used football chants I can think of. Yes, of course, it is to due with the letters and the ease of putting them in as a filler clue, but surely they can put in a WHEYYY
(I suppose the spelling here is quite challenging, tbf) or some sort of other chant that is short and fits into a crossword. It's just never a good clue, purely meta knowledge, and I am annoyed at their lack of creativity.