The Daily O’Collegian

Question:

Why doesn’t the O’Colly run two crossword

puzzles on Mondays anymore?

Answer:

The answers to Fridays’ crossword puzzles are a mystery to O’Collegian readers. At one time, answers to Fridays’ puzzles were posted every Monday, but no one seemed interested in reading them, said Lori Raford, business office manager at the O’Collegian.

Every week Radford downloads crossword puzzles from King Features, which provides Sunday through Saturday puzzles.

The answers to Friday’s puzzle are with Saturday’s puzzle, she said.

If Radford ran Friday’s answers on Monday, she would also have to run Saturday’s puzzle along with Monday’s puzzle.

The format of each puzzle makes splitting Friday’s answers from the puzzle and attaching it to Monday’s difficult and would take more time than it is worth, Radford said.

Radford said the department began placing the answers in the O’Colly because a girl requested them. As time went on, no seemed to notice or use the answers, so she stopped including them, she said.

“It just didn’t seem like that big of a deal,” Radford said.

The organization of a newspaper is based on space and availability and there isn’t enough space for everything, she said. Radford said fitting the puzzle and answers onto the page can be a difficult and time-consuming process.

“I don’t think people understand how the paper is put together,” Radford said.

Crossword puzzles have been in the O’Colly for more than 18 years, she said.

The business department didn’t know readers wanted the answers in the paper and if the readers want them, the department could include the answers, Radford said.

Students and faculty wanting to know the answers to Fridays’ crossword puzzles should e-mail the O’Collegian Business Department at lori@ocolly.com.