Merriam-Webster promoted Typeshift, a word game littered with offensive language.

“My feeling, rightly or wrongly, is that any benign that means of a phrase is honest sport for a crossword. This is a matter that comes up sometimes with entries like GO O.Ok. (which we clued final April as ‘Proceed all proper,’ however which as a strong phrase is a slur), CHINK (benign within the sense as a chink in a single’s armor), and so forth. These are professional phrases,” Shortz tweeted. “Maybe I must rethink this opinion, if sufficient solvers are bothered.”