You know me, always up for a crossword puzzle. I picked it up from my grandma. She always did the ones in the paper. I've gotten quite good at them, but I can't really do Friday or Saturday's NYT ones. I got this huge book of crosswords (as well as other stuff, but mainly crosswords), and in it was something they called "Stopwords", the description being "A heavy black line is used to indicate the end of a word rather than the usual black square. This is a type of diagram popular with our friends across the seas. Since there are no black squares, letters fill the entire diagram." I was just wondering how true this actually is. Is it really popular as far as crosswords go in the UK? Are there magazines filled with these types like the Americans have with their crosswords? I got the book at Borders, so I can't really get another one because I haven't seen them anywhere else (Stupid Borders had to go and close!) If so, I'd like a book or magazine filled with this type. There were only 3 puzzles (out of 604!) in that book that were these type. This was the example I got farthest with. The scanner didn't work very well when I tried to scan the whole page, so just the diagram is showing, not the clues. I think publications from other countries are cool. For example, I got a package from Germany and they used a German newspaper to package the game with. Well, anyway, happy Valentine's Day. You know what I'm doing to celebrate? Nothing. I think the holiday is stupid. It's my least favorite one. Like all the holy ones, it got too commercialized. Where's the same commercialization for Walpurgisnacht?