Slate Crossword: Scuzzy Aesthetic From the Late Aughts (11 Letters)
The article discusses a Slate crossword puzzle with a scuzzy aesthetic from the late aughts. The puzzle has 11 letters and is powered by Crosshare.org. The article also mentions other games from Slate, including Slate Pears and Slate SoundBites.
- ▪The crossword puzzle is from the late aughts and has a scuzzy aesthetic.
- ▪The puzzle is powered by Crosshare.org and has 11 letters.
- ▪Other games from Slate include Slate Pears and Slate SoundBites.
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| Original publisher | Slate Magazine |
| Canonical URL | https://slate.com/life/2026/05/crossword-slate-daily-puzzle-may-31-2026.html?via=rss |
| Publication time | Sun, 31 May 2026 09:50:00 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-31T10:28:19.329Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-31T10:28:19.329Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | xc63i7HOkKPb |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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By Ben Zimmer May 31, 2026 POWERED BY CROSSHARE.ORG <p class="slate-notification--error"> Please enable Javascript to view Slate interactives. </p> localStorage.setItem('theme', 'auto') More Games From Slate Slate Pears Game 289: May 30, 2026 Slate Mini Crossword for May 30, 2026 Slate Pears Game 288: May 29, 2026 Slate SoundBites for May 29, 2026 Copy Link Share Share Comment Slate Games Crossword
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Slate Magazine.
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