Alright, let me tell you about this morning’s crossword puzzle. I was sitting down with my usual cup of coffee, ready to tackle the daily grid, feeling pretty confident. Then I hit this clue: “some wnba fouls”. Seemed straightforward enough at first.
My mind immediately went to basketball. Okay, WNBA, women’s league. Fouls. What kind of fouls are there? Personal fouls, technical fouls, flagrant fouls. Those are the big ones, right? I checked the boxes for the answer – needed five letters. Well, that knocked out most of my initial thoughts. “Personal” is way too long. “Flagrant” too. “Technical” could maybe be shortened to “Techs” but that felt a bit weird for a standard crossword.
So, I thought, maybe it’s not asking for a type of foul. The word “some” felt important. Like, not the official terms, maybe? Just… some fouls. What do you do when you foul someone? You hit them, you push them, you grab them. I started thinking about more informal words.
Figuring it Out
I stared at the grid. Five letters. What’s a common, maybe slightly slang term for fouling in basketball, especially minor or repeated ones? I thought about the action itself. When players are just kind of swiping or hitting at the ball carrier, commentators sometimes call it getting “hacky”.
Then it clicked. HACKS. Five letters. Plural, fitting the “some” part of the clue. It’s a word people definitely use when talking about basketball fouls, even if it’s not the super official language. It just felt right, you know? Like the kind of slightly tricky, informal answer crossword editors love to throw in.
- Checked the letters I already had in the grid.
- Sounded out H-A-C-K-S.
- Yep, it fit perfectly with the crossing words.
It’s funny how sometimes the answer isn’t the first thing that pops into your head, the official term. You gotta think a bit sideways, consider how people actually talk. Pretty satisfying when you finally nail one like that. Just goes to show, even with sports clues, it pays to think outside the official rulebook sometimes!
