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	<description>The best crosswords in newspapers and online</description>
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		<title>Thursday, 5/17/12</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 03:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Puzzles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brendan Emmett Quigley]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t go to the Crosswords LA tournament last Saturday and I didn&#8217;t have time join the ranks of test solvers, but I hear wonderful things about the puzzles that were commissioned for the event. Good news! They&#8217;re for sale now, five bucks cheap, in both .puz and .pdf form. Six tournament puzzles (by Donna [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday, 5/16/12</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 03:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aimee Lucido]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Don Gagliardo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Adamick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Randall J. Hartman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Adamick&#8217;s New York Times crossword Today&#8217;s theme is 4/4 word pairs stacked together in a pinwheel formation around the edges of the grid. Structurally, it&#8217;s a tad weird because then you have a third 8-letter answer in each quadrant to fill out the stack, and those answers are entirely unrelated to the 4/4 gimmick. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MGWCC #206</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 16:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Gaffney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[hello and welcome to episode #206 of matt gaffney&#8217;s weekly crossword contest, &#8220;You CAN Go Back Again!&#8221;. this week, matt asks us to name a well-known actress. uh-oh, says i. well, let&#8217;s just take a look anyway. there are five goofy theme answers: {System that detects threats to Canada&#8217;s 13th-largest city?} is LAVAL SONAR. LAVAL [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday, 5/15/12</title>
		<link>http://www.crosswordfiend.com/blog/2012/05/14/tuesday-51512/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 03:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jerome Gunderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Jones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raymond Hamel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susan Gelfand]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Susan Gelfand&#8217;s New York Times crossword I wasn&#8217;t loving this puzzle while I was solving it so when I reached the final theme answer, the unifying phrase FULL OF HOLES, I heard the voice of a Borscht Belt comedian saying &#8220;FULL OF HOLES? This whole puzzle&#8217;s full of holes!&#8221; (I didn&#8217;t say he was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contest for constructors in their teens and twenties</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 16:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Twenty Under Thirty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Tausig has sent out a call for puzzle submissions from constructors under the age of 30. I&#8217;ll let Ben explain: I am delighted to announced that the &#8220;Twenty Under Thirty&#8221; contest is officially open. Please feel free to forward the announcement to anyone who might be interested. About &#8220;Twenty Under Thirty&#8221; &#8220;Twenty Under Thirty&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday, 5/14/12</title>
		<link>http://www.crosswordfiend.com/blog/2012/05/13/monday-51412/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 23:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pannonica</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brendan Emmett Quigley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Poole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dunn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Ashwood-Smith]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[John Dunn&#8217;s New York Times crossword — pannonica&#8217;s review A breezy Monday, a smooth solve. 70-across, the last one, reveals the theme: [Roget offerings (abbr.) … or, loosely, the first and last words of 20-, 28-, 48-and 56-Across] SYNS. So… 20a. [Impatiently endure passing time] WATCH THE CLOCK. 28a. [Win by enough points, in sports [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday, 5/13/12</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 10:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gareth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ben Tausig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry Hook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karen Tracey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Merl Reagle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Orbach]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The hyperlinks to individual puzzles aren&#8217;t working for the nonce. I posted this too late so the script is broken. Gareth. [Edited to add: The anchor links are working now. - Evad] Ben Tausig&#8217;s New York Times crossword, &#8220;INDIES&#8221; Hi! Gareth here! As you probably know, Amy&#8217;s taken the weekend off from her 7-days-a-week, largely [...]]]></description>
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