Causing havoc for the Sudoku players.

This piece was focused on the website Wikileaks. It was a piece highlighting shocking/controversial information which has been revealed by the site. Yes this information is reported on by journalists on the radio, TV and in the papers, however this is often only chosen stories and alot of information goes unreported. As a society a large portion have never actually entered the website. I wanted to find an unusual way of communicating this information to a different set of people, focusing on the elderly. Within my community free Metro papers are provided on the local buses, these can either be read on the bus or taken away. Since as the elderly are entitled to a free bus pass they often use this public transport and make up a large portion of the users. I often see these elderly people taking a metro off the bus. I decided that one way I could try to reach then was by adding a crossword as it is often stereotyped that the elderly take part in such activities.

I created the crossword on Illustrator and took small interesting snippets of information from Wikileaks. This was sometimes hard to find as alot of the information is in a military written form and is very impersonal. I wanted to find information the public would be engaged by and not just another statistic. It was also hard as the site was often unavailable, I'm guessing that this was because of the multiple parties which are trying to close the site down. It is said that we have freedom of speech, but with this site under constant attack it makes you wonder just who decides what can be said and what gives them this right?

This is the information I decided to use and turned into my questions and answers :

1 - Which prisoners did the U.S authorities want any foreign country to take off their hands that they were willing to strike any deal? Including millions of dollars and meetings with Obama? (10)

Answer - Guantanamo

2 - Which countries Vice President was discovered to be carrying $52 million dollars on him in cash whilst travelling. The U.S. Embassy allowed him to keep it ‘without revealing the money’s origin or destination’? (11)

Answer - Afghanistan

3 - Suspects were shipped to Guantanamo Bay because they were wearing a certain brand of a daily popular accessory, with most being quickly realised because of the lack of evidence. What was this accessory? (5)

Answer - Watch

4 - The Chinese government was found trying to hack into not only Google but the U.S and Western allies’ computers, but which religious leader did they also try hacking? (5, 4)

Answer - Dalai Lama5 - The President of Yemen covered for which country saying "We'll continue saying the bombs are ours, not yours,"? (6,6)

Answer - United States 6 -It has been reported that Guantanamo Bay prisoner’s re-enact the 9/11 using what art form? (7)

Answer - Origami

7 - Who’s Prime Minister has been shown to be ‘feckless, vain and ineffective’ with details emerging of his ‘frequent late nights and penchant for partying hard’? (5)

Answer - Italy

After making my crossword I sized it to fit the sudoku section as this was the most logical place. I used an old issue to get the measurements. I then got the bus at 9 o'clock, knowing that most of the metros are gone by midday. I took all of the metros from the tray and stuck my crosswords in place during the journey to town. Once they were finished I left some on seats and put the rest back into the tray.