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Will Shortz, the crossword editor for The New York Times, issued an apology after readers brought it to his attention that a racial slur was used in the New Year s Day edition of the crossword puzzle.In the Tuesday, Jan. 1 edition of the crossword, the answer to the clue in the 2-Down slot was beaner. This is a racial slur used for Mexicans and people of Mexican descent. This definition is the first result to appear in Google when searching the term.The clue to 2-Down in Tuesdays puzzle was Pitch to the head, informally. Neither Joel Fagliano nor I had ever heard the slur before 鈥?and I don t know anyone who would use it, the response from Shortz reads. Maybe we live in rarefied circles. The apology continued: This is an issue that comes up occasionally with entries like GO O.K. which we clued last April as Proceed all right, but which as a solid word is a slur , CHINK which is benign in the sense as a chink in ones armor, stanley cup botella stanley etc. These are legitimate words. Responses to the apology on Twitter were mostly critical. One user called it a non-apol stanley cup ogy apology and another said it s more reason to have a diverse staff. Another user, however, said t hey think people are too easily offended .The tweet with the responses can be seen below. A response from Will Shortz about the entry 2D in today s crossword puzzle. Nzdo Windy and cold night, snowflakes Tuesday
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