Man, you won’t believe the day I had yesterday. I was messing around online, trying to find some new ways to kill time, and I stumbled upon this crossword puzzle. The clue was “where to see stars after a blow,” and I was like, “What in the world does that mean?”
So, I started digging around. First, I just typed the whole phrase into a search engine. You know, just to see what would pop up. There were a bunch of results about some crossword solver websites. Apparently, this is a pretty common clue. One site had like 30 possible answers, another one even listed 40! I thought “Geez, this is gonna be harder than I thought.”
I spent a good while clicking through these different crossword help sites. They were all pretty similar. You type in the clue, and it spits out a list of possible answers. Some of them even rank the answers by popularity, which is kind of neat. I saw one answer a lot: BOXINGMATCH. It’s got 11 letters, which seemed to fit the bill.
I started to think about why “BOXING MATCH” might be the right answer. I read on one of the sites that “stars” can refer to seeing stars when you get hit hard, like in a boxing match. It kind of made sense, in a weird way. One site mentioned that “stars” could also mean “asterisks,” which are sometimes used in crosswords to indicate a theme or something special about the clue. But that didn’t seem to apply here.
My “Aha!” Moment
- I kept seeing “BOXING MATCH” as a suggested answer.
- I realized “stars” could refer to the sensation of seeing stars after a blow.
- The phrase “boxing match” has 11 letters, fitting the crossword grid.
Then it hit me! This clue is playing on the double meaning of “stars.” You’ve got the literal stars you see in the sky, but also the expression “seeing stars” when you get punched really hard. And where does that happen? In a boxing match!
I felt pretty good about figuring that out. It’s like one of those little lightbulb moments, you know? It wasn’t about finding a technical definition, It was just a regular, everyday idiom and this crossword made a word game out of it. Who knew a simple crossword clue could be so tricky? It just goes to show, sometimes the answer is right in front of you, hidden in plain sight. You just gotta look at it from a different angle.
