[callahad]

Could you try going back to the crossword and trying to log in?

If that doesn't work, it sounds like you hit a bug -- could you file that at https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues, please?

The password stuff was because your email provider doesn't support Persona's protocol, so it fell back to asking Mozilla to validate your identity with a challenge email (and a password, so you don't have to use a challenge email when you come back next time).