Riddle 011: Emphasis on CROSS in "Crossword"

[questionauthority]

[Edward's busily attending to a crossword puzzle in the kitchen. He muses over it before groaning in frustration and grabbing the phone.]

Has anyone else found the Daily Crosswords in Mayfield far too simple? Literally, for the last three days in a row, I've been finding them incredibly underwhelming. Come on now, Mayfield. Yesterday was Saturday, and what did we get? Tuesday quality. Garbage. Even the Gotham Gazette's Mondays could be considered more of a challenge than this!

Does anyone happen to know who even runs the paper? [He groans.]

[Filter to Joker, Harley, and Pam:]

I'm still in need of some assistance, old friends. Joker? Pam? Have you changed your minds?

[Also, action, to Susan:]

Susan! Might I have a word with you?

Comments

[plantenough.livejournal.com]

It's hardly surprising that our captors would refrain from providing anything truly challenging. After all, how else are we supposed to fall in line while we can still think?

[puzzlerprince.livejournal.com]

To be fair, their little... incidents that they keep throwing at us are probably the most challenging things any of us have to deal with. And they're never predictable. That's why I do my best to keep focused before they toss us into whatever poisonous death-trap they have prepared for us this month.

[plantenough.livejournal.com]

Some of them, perhaps. I've yet to see the intellectual or physical challenge in a cooked bird full of human blood. Though you do have a point, sometimes our captors' games can be more... trying. We are as toys in the hands of a spoiled child.

[puzzlerprince.livejournal.com]

Try a bird that comes to life and attempts to throttle you and everyone in the house.

[plantenough.livejournal.com]

Oh, now that sounds exciting.