This puzzle should not be taken as an endorsement of those tasteless social events from which women are excluded (except as performers). In fact I find the idea of “stag parties” in that sense distinctly disagreeable. But if forest creatures wish to gather for their own festive purposes, I do not feel that I, from my necessarily anthropocentric subject position, have any right to condemn them.
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Today, in The Wall Street Journal, will appear a crossword I made in collaboration with fellow constructor Kelly Clark, whose test-solving has been improving the puzzles on this website for years.