re: reading today's Daily Mail. At the end of the day, what I wanted to do was the crossword.?

Question

Can't seem to manage that. Any ideas?

Answer 1

How to crossword:
1 Use a pencil so that you can erase mistakes easily.
2 Fill in obvious answers, both across and down.
3 Look at across questions and down questions again to see if anything new pops up - an easy answer you didn't notice before or one that has now become clear because of the letters that are filled in.
4 Look for multiples in clues, such as 'friends.' Put an S in the last position, which may help you figure out adjacent words.
5 Pay attention to clues in the past tense. Try putting ED in the last two positions. (This doesn't always work, however.)
6 Familiarize yourself with frequently used - and often obscure - little words that crossword assemblers need to fill in niches here and there.
7 If you're completely stumped, put the puzzle down for a while and try again later. Or look at the clue another way - for example, maybe 'Getting to first base' refers to romance rather than baseball.
More hints:
If the clue contains an abbreviation, then the answer is also an abbreviation.
A question mark at the end of a clue means the answer is somehow sneaky or a pun. For example, one New York Times puzzle creator, Manny Nosowsky, gave 'Where a person uses an ID to get mail?' as a clue to the answer 'Idaho.'
The highly esteemed New York Times puzzles are easiest on Monday and get progressively harder throughout the week, with a larger puzzle on Sunday.
Helpful aids include a crossword dictionary, an atlas and an almanac.

Answer 2

E mail me the questions.

Answer 3

Suduko?