The word “GAYDAR” appears in today’s New York Times crossword. The clue is “Special intuition, in modern lingo.” It took me a while to figure out the answer.

Nice one.

Update 4/15/05: My website is getting a lot of Google hits today for “special intuition modern lingo.” Was there a news article or something? If you come across this page through such a search, can you drop me an email to tell me why you were looking for the phrase? Thanks…