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		<title>Sunday, 8/1/10</title>
		<link>http://www.crosswordfiend.com/blog/2010/07/31/sunday-8110/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brendan Emmett Quigley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emily Cox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry Rathvon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Lampkin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Merl Reagle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trip Payne]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[NYT 10:21
LAT 7:55
BG 7:45
Reagle 7:22
WaPo Post Puzzler 4:29
CS tba
It&#8217;s August 1 and time for links! Okay, no, I don&#8217;t do a first-of-the-month links post, but I do have a few links for you today.
First up, innovative constructor Patrick Blindauer is launching his website, PatrickBlindauer.com, this weekend. He&#8217;s got his first monthly crossword, a place to buy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday, 7/31/10</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Randall J. Hartman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stanley Newman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timothy L. Meaker]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Newsday 9:03
NYT 7:43
LAT 4:27
CS untimed
WSJ Saturday Puzzle untimed—here&#8217;s the PDF of Hex&#8217;s cryptic


Barry Silk&#8217;s New York Times crossword
Omigod, really, Barry? TUZIGOOT? The [National monument near Flagstaff] (37d)? I had to play the alphabet game to get the Z (43a: [Word whose antonym is its own homophone] clues RAZE, which sounds like raise), and I couldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street Journal, 7/30/10</title>
		<link>http://www.crosswordfiend.com/blog/2010/07/30/wall-street-journal-73010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Puzzles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Randolph Ross]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Ful Employment&#8221; by Randolph Ross &#8211; 10:21
Hi, Jeffrey here. Welcome to a very special Wall Street Journal crossword.


Theme: Fodsworth Ulysses Lloydminster’s 100th birthday.
Today’s puzzle by Randolph Ross adds “FUL” to job titles,  commemorating Fodsworth Ulysses Lloydminster, who was born on July 30, 1910. “FUL”, as he was known, was the creator of the most historically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday, 7/30/10</title>
		<link>http://www.crosswordfiend.com/blog/2010/07/29/friday-73010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Puzzles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Holland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin G. Der]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Byron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron Byron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Keller]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[NYT 5:15
LAT 4:38
CHE 4:02
CS untimed


Kevin Der&#8217;s New York Times crossword
Hey! It&#8217;s a non–Patrick Berry 64-worder and while it has plenty of got-every-letter-from-the-crossings answers, I enjoyed it and found so much more to like than to grumble at. I spent some time at the beginning of the puzzle marveling at the grid—all that white space! Triple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday, 7/29/10</title>
		<link>http://www.crosswordfiend.com/blog/2010/07/28/thursday-72910/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fireball 10:25
NYT 4:25
LAT 3:10
BEQ untimed (whoops, timer didn&#8217;t start itself)
Tausig untimed
CS untimed


Peter Collins&#8217; New York Times crossword
Quickly, because I&#8217;m expecting company in a bit—
The theme is MIDDLE / SCHOOL, and the four longest Across answers have the names of universities hidden within them:

18a. [Golf groundskeepers' tools] are SAND RAKES, with DRAKE University of Iowa lurking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday, 7/28/10</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mike Peluso]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raymond Hamel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Onion 4:25 with one error (Check your crossings, kid!)
NYT 3:35
LAT 3:04
CS untimed


Howard Baker&#8217;s New York Times crossword
Hey! Look at that. One of those crossword conventions that bugs the hell out of us (unless we need one of those answers in our own construction) is the use of the Cockney/My Fair Lady elided H-words, like &#8216;OME [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crosswords for the blind. No, really!</title>
		<link>http://www.crosswordfiend.com/blog/2010/07/27/crosswords-for-the-blind-no-really/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crosswordfiend.com/blog/2010/07/27/crosswords-for-the-blind-no-really/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Puzzles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accessibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blind Gamers Crossword Puzzle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crosswords]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spoonbill Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visually impaired]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was pretty psyched when I learned that Google is getting closed captioning incorporated into more YouTube videos, making YouTube more accessible to the deaf and hearing-impaired. I&#8217;m delighted to know that there&#8217;s now software that reads crossword clues and entries aloud so solvers who are blind or have low vision can enjoy doing crosswords, [...]]]></description>
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