And, while he worked on it a bit with the puzzle editors, it arrived in pretty good shape. Many people spend years trying to get a puzzle accepted by The Times’s puzzle editors, and Mr. Hasegawa decided not only to construct a crossword puzzle for his project, but also to make one that would run in The New York Times. With all of the exceptional chutzpah of youth, Mr.
Hasegawa, as you will read below, is a senior in high school and is required to complete a capstone project in order to graduate. That’s why I smiled as I read through Nathan Hasegawa’s constructor notes. I wished for nothing more as a child than to somehow be endowed with it.
To the adults in my family who spoke Yiddish, people with chutzpah were to be admired (“Can you believe my daughter asked for a promotion and she got it? Now that’s chutzpah!”), so I grew up believing that possessing it was a wonderful thing. Sometimes it means arrogance to the point of rudeness, but it can also be used positively, to describe a good amount of confidence and audacity. WEDNESDAY PUZZLE - The Yiddish word “chutzpah” can mean different things to people, depending on the context.
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