Okay, let me walk you through what I did today. I bumped into this phrase, “nicolas who directed nyt crossword,” and it got me scratching my head.
My First Reaction
Right off the bat, I thought, “Directed? How do you ‘direct’ a crossword puzzle?” Seemed odd. Like, is someone standing over the puzzle constructor telling them where to put the letters? Doesn’t really work that way, does it? So, my first step was figuring out what “directed” could even mean here.
Thinking About Movies
My next thought was, maybe it’s about a movie? Like, a documentary or something about the New York Times crossword. That made more sense. People direct movies. So, I figured this “Nicolas” must be a film director who made a movie about the NYT crossword.
Hitting the Search Button
So, I went looking. Typed in stuff like “nicolas director nyt crossword documentary” and variations on that. You know how it is, just throwing keywords out there.
What popped up?
- Lots of stuff about the NYT crossword, obviously.
- Talk about a well-known documentary about the NYT crossword puzzle enthusiasts.
I dug into that documentary info. Found out it’s called “Wordplay”. Pretty famous one, actually, if you’re into puzzles or documentaries. Watched bits of it ages ago, I think.
The Director Question
Then I checked who directed “Wordplay”. Found the name Patrick Creadon pretty quickly. Okay, so Patrick directed it. Good documentary. But wait… where’s Nicolas?
This was the confusing part. The original phrase specifically said “Nicolas”. But the big-deal documentary director was Patrick.
More Searching
I tried again, focusing on “Nicolas” and “NYT crossword”. Maybe Nicolas was involved in some other way? A producer? A featured puzzler? A critic who wrote about it?
- Found some film critics named Nicolas, like Nicolas Rapold. Maybe he wrote about the film “Wordplay”? Possible, but “directed” still felt wrong.
- Couldn’t find any director named Nicolas strongly tied to making a film about the NYT crossword itself.
Wrapping Up My Search
So, after poking around for a while, here’s what I landed on. The phrase “nicolas who directed nyt crossword” seems a bit mixed up. There is a famous documentary about the NYT crossword called “Wordplay”, but it was directed by Patrick Creadon, not someone named Nicolas.
Maybe someone got the names confused? Or maybe Nicolas was involved in some other capacity that’s less prominent? Hard to say for sure without more info. But if you’re thinking about the main film director associated with the NYT crossword movie, that seems to be Patrick Creadon.
It was an interesting little rabbit hole, though. Just goes to show how sometimes these little questions take a bit of untangling. That was my process today, just trying to sort out that name and connection.
