Allow me to present to you the New York Times crossword for the first night of Hanukkah.
Yup…
Now ask yourself how many editors, typesetter, graphic editors, and assorted other people that had to go through to get published.
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
Fun fact: the same design was used by the NYT in 2017, too, and they got caught out. And tried to tweet their way out of it.
https://twitter.com/NYTGames/status/924284422106632192
I sea watt ewe did their. 8>)