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when the crossword is sus: The Signpost Crossword is a 2018 online multiplayer social deduction game that takes place in space-themed settings where players are colorful, armless cartoon astronauts.

Crossword

when the crossword is sus

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Across

1 One in real life often causes one on its Wikipedia article WAR

4 Where naughty Signpost articles are taken to meet their doom MFD

5 Overwhelmed by Neelix RFD

6 Policy requiring that sources can be checked V

7 Attention, calling all cars, we have a BLP vio in progress on 5th street and Centerline... we have additionally reports of a "poopoo peepee" past uw-4im in the 1600 block of Stamson... exercise extreme caution, suspect may be armed with a proxy... AIV

10 Department where employees love adding "mission statement" to the company's infobox PR

11 A parenthetical note made in passing BTW

13 Where you could take Senkaku Islands and tree shaping edit-warriors to be dealt with, until quite recently AE

Down

1 They roll the nickels WMF

2 Where the work of 10-across departments tends to wind up AFD

3 5-across deals with, and 2-down can close as RD

5 Challenge-pissing extravaganza for demonstrating a need for the tools RFA

8 Permission granted to public wifi enjoyers, college editors, and others frequently hit by rangeblocks IPBE

9 Celeb email receivers VRT

12 Retired annelid arbitrator WTT

13 Zoomer/moomer version of "hella"; alternately, camera setting for non-supervised crispness AF

Note: the chronologically previous crossword appeared in the 26 June 2022 issue, in the humour column.

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Where are the answers?-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 12:49, 24 December 2023 (UTC) [reply ]

@TonyTheTiger: It's usually in the next edition. igordebraga ≠ 00:16, 25 December 2023 (UTC) [reply ]

This was fun, thanks! (Although I'm still working on 13 down, 9 down, and 10 across. (I expected 10 across to be "COI" but that doesn't fit...) 🎄Cremastra 🎄 (talk) 13:15, 24 December 2023 (UTC) [reply ]

I enjoyed it. Thank you to the authors of the crossword. I don't participate in 2-down, do they really abbreviate 3-down like that? Because the WP:WP shortcut of 3-down is for something else, and it has a hatnote for 3-down. —⁠andrybak (talk) 14:37, 24 December 2023 (UTC) [reply ]
I never knew I needed Wikipedia crosswords. Ca ^{talk to me!} 04:36, 30 December 2023 (UTC) [reply ]

Okay, it's been long enough; I will put the answers in the article. Thanks for pitching in, folks! jp ×ばつg 🗯️ 02:46, 7 January 2024 (UTC) [reply ]

Thanks for the answers!
As a person who plays crosswords, I didn't enjoy this that much when playing to crossword standards, but hey, it's there. Maybe we could steer the crossword towards hyperfixing on crosswords that look like certain things and punchlines that assemble themselves by other words, like how it does here for 1-across? Aaron Liu (talk) 20:06, 7 January 2024 (UTC) [reply ]

I have (admittedly somewhat limited) experience writing crosswords for a local newspaper, and I'd be happy to help out. Sincerely, Novo Tape ^{My Talk Page} 23:13, 11 January 2024 (UTC) [reply ]

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