{"id":2398024,"date":"2026-05-01T17:29:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2398024"},"modified":"2026-05-01T17:29:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:29:29","slug":"solve-the-may-bonus-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/solve-the-may-bonus-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Solve the May Bonus Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Every month, The New York Times publishes a bonus crossword puzzle for subscribers. They are designed to have the difficulty of an early-week puzzle and to use a theme throughout. The theme of <\/span><\/em>this month\u2019s puzzle<\/em><\/a>, by Christina Iverson, a puzzle editor, and Jeff Tweedy, a Grammy-winning musician best known as the frontman of the band Wilco, is rock music.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The first album I purchased with my own money was Green Day\u2019s \u201cAmerican Idiot.\u201d Besides relishing the victory of convincing my parents to let me buy a record with a parental-advisory sticker on it, I also remember how excited I felt to start my very own CD collection, one that I hoped would eventually rival my dad\u2019s in scale and scope. My dream of building a shining city of CD towers was short-lived. The iPod arrived; my music collection and consumption went digital.<\/p>\n

Suddenly granted unprecedented access to music, I began ravenously downloading albums \u2014 some from iTunes, some from less-reputable sources, their MP3s with file names like \u201cREDHOTCHILIPEPPERS_REAL_ACTUAL_YES.\u201d I devoured discographies, traded playlists with friends and scoured online forums such as Blalock\u2019s Indie Rock Playlist and The A.V. Club. That\u2019s how I discovered many of the rock acts that appear in this month\u2019s bonus puzzle, as well as one of its constructors: Jeff Tweedy, a Grammy-winning musician and frontman of the indie rock band Wilco.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n