One of the signs you’re a crossword puzzle addict is your
vocabulary is packed with short, vowel-filled words that are almost useless
anywhere else. The other day I stumbled across one of these words being used
for something other than 8 down or 25 across. It was a news story about a group
of construction workers in New Zealand with a mystery on their hands. Someone
had been repeatedly dragging traffic cones into the middle of the road. They
set up a camera to catch the pranksters in the act, and found the culprits were
keas: very large and very intelligent members of the parrot family. The construction
workers believe the birds have learned to associate stopped cars with being
fed. The clever keas have simply worked out a way to get hand-outs on demand.
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