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[cascheranno@hachyderm.io]

@MostlyHarmless I love that ‘it’s a trap’ forces Star Trek. That’s delicious.

And for anyone seeing this for the first time, twas not last Sunday. Web says March 26, 2025. But it’s an excellent prelude to May the Fourth.

[cascheranno@hachyderm.io]

Ok, so alt text: let’s do this.

Meme is a text block and a crossword snippet:

Text at top says “Fun little trick in the Sunday New York Times crossword yesterday: the central theme clue was "The better of two sci-fi franchises", and regardless of whether you put Star Wars or Star Trek, the crossing clues worked.” The image shows a portion of a crossword solution . At position 70 across, an 8 letter word starting STAR. The last 4 letters are then vertically crossed by:

The first letter of 71 down. 4 letters. Clue: “It’s a _____!”
The second letter of 67 down. 5 letters. Clue: ‘Body part that precedes “band”.
The 5th letter of 47 down, 6 letters. Clue: “ones involved in a transaction.”
The 4th letter of 55 down. 6 letters. Clue: “Let out, in a way.”

Dual answers in another comment.

[speckmantel@social.anoxinon.de]

@MostlyHarmless this seems broken

Babylon 5 doesn't fit!

The two best were farscape or bab5, right?
duckandaway

[cascheranno@hachyderm.io]

@MostlyHarmless
Answers for alttext folk:

Trap, Wrist, payees, leaked. These yield Star Trek.
Wrap, Waist, payers, leased. These yield Star Wars.

[soundasleep@mastodon.social]

@cascheranno @MostlyHarmless It's actually all the way back from 2022! https://www.reddit.com/r/crossword/s/Z0iiWF1NYK

[cascheranno@hachyderm.io]

@soundasleep thanks! Seemed a much-older memory than 13 m ago.

@MostlyHarmless