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	<title>Diary of a Crossword Fiend &#187; Alan Arbesfeld</title>
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	<description>The best crosswords in newspapers and online</description>
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		<title>Thursday, 1/26/12</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alan Arbesfeld&#8217;s New York Times crossword The theme entries append an ST to the beginning of a word—sometimes the first worst, sometimes the last word—to change the meaning. It doesn&#8217;t really seem like a Thursdayish theme, does it? But the puzzle took a Thursday amount of time, what with the fill that felt sometimes more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday, 10/6/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aww, R.I.P., Steve Jobs. The crossword world thanks you for all the 4-letter device names (iMac, iPod, iPad) that help us fill in our grids, and for designing the first phone we could solve crosswords on. And then the first tablet we could solve crosswords on even more easily. On a brighter note, yay, Joon! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday, 8/21/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 02:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note to readers: If you submit a comment and it vanishes, e-mail me—your comment may have been snared by the spam filter. Spam volume is up, so I&#8217;m no longer skimming all the spam comments to look for innocent victims. Alan Arbesfeld&#8217;s New York Times crossword The 10 longest answers in this grid (9+ letters) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday, 7/28/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alan Arbesfeld&#8217;s New York Times crossword Rather a tricky rebus puzzle, as there&#8217;s also a topsy-turvy aspect to it. There are seven symmetrically placed Across answers with {UP} rebus squares in them. The Down answers that intersect the {UP} squares are actually Up answers. 3-Down is PAUPER, as in The Prince and the Pauper, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday, 5/26/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 02:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ashish Vengsarkar&#8217;s New York Times crossword A(shis)h, who doesn&#8217;t appreciate a wicked twist in a Thursday puzzle? That extra minute it took me to root out a typo didn&#8217;t dampen my enthusiasm for this puzzle&#8217;s theme. Ashish goes chromosomal here, interpreting a set of &#8220;his and hers&#8221; towel embroidery as XY AND XX. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday, 5/10/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 02:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alan Arbesfeld&#8217;s New York Times crossword I liked this puzzle. I barely noticed what the theme was while solving, as the theme answers, all nouns, were clued so straightforwardly. I can&#8217;t quite label what it is that the theme entries do—not exactly a word ladder, but there&#8217;s a laddery chain in which part 2 of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday, 3/17/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 02:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy St. Patrick&#8217;s Day! And Happy Looming ACPT Weekend, to those of you who celebrate it. Me, I like to make a four-day holiday out of it now. My Metrocard is ready for reloading, my transit map is packed, and I am ready for an NYC vacation! Wait, what? I have to do some sort [...]]]></description>
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