Overview
- Media outlets on Wednesday reported that Jeff Tweedy’s monthly bonus crossword for New York Times Games is live for subscribers.
- The puzzle, titled My Life Was Saved by Rock ’N’ Roll, pays homage to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground with clues that nod to David Bowie, Sex Pistols, Keith Richards, Johnny Cash, New York Dolls, and Bill Callahan.
- Tweedy wrote on his Starship Casual Substack that he is a massive crossword puzzle nut and that puzzles offer a benign outlet for his addictive streak.
- In a short video with Times puzzle editor Christina Iverson, he said songwriting can feel like solving a puzzle because both demand the right word in the right spot.
- The Times also posted free five-by-five mini crosswords by Carole King, Diane Warren, and Stephin Merritt from its new list of the 30 greatest living American songwriters, a list that did not include Tweedy.