Crossword

I've been doing a lot of crossword puzzles lately. A lot. I think this fact is due to my new leather chairs. They make me feel smart, particularly when there's a fire in the fireplace. Anyway, I finally schlepped my ass up to the bookstore tonight and got a book of the New York Times crosswords. The cover tells me in big letters they're "Easy!"

I really don't expect to ever finsish them all, and if the clerk at the bookstore had asked me if that was my intention I would've said, "Hell, no." Wait, I take that back...I would have told the clerk my answer was 2 words, 6 letters, and the clue was "Emphatically negative (slang)."