Crossword editor’s desk: time, space and revolutionary watering cans

As the bureaucrats of the nascent French republic discovered in 1805, the calendar does not always fit with our own schedule. So it is with this column

There is a special satisfaction when things that have no reason to fit do so. It’s best expressed in Passionless Moments, an early short film by Jane Campion in which a young girl, off sick, idles with a box of tissues while trying to play solo Monopoly:

Now, she discovers how perfectly Monopoly money fixes on to the back of a Scotties box. She wonders how many other paper products would fit on to the back of the Scotties box.

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