I’m sure it’s just a passing craze. I like crosswords too, but the nice thing about Sudoku is that it’s always solvable without needing general worldly knowledge type stuff. Completing a crossword is however, more satisfying than finishing a Sudoku (generally speaking – there was this one hard Sudoku that was very rewarding to finish). Making up words to fit the answers so that I may see a more filled out crossword is not beneath me. Anyway, I was doing this puzzle yesterday and I don’t think it’s solvable. Where am I supposed to put the 4 in the middle column? Did I miss something??

Numbers in green were provided. I filled in the three numbers in black.