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	<title>Diary of a Crossword Fiend &#187; Ben Tausig</title>
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	<description>The best crosswords in newspapers and online</description>
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		<title>Thursday, 2/9/12</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Der&#8217;s New York Times crossword Kevin&#8217;s theme is tied together by the word SAILS: [Travels over what's hidden in the answers to the seven starred clues]. The word SEA is in each of seven 9-letter answers, and it progresses from the first trigram to the last trigram as it goes through SEARCH OUT, USE [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday, 2/3/12</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joel Kaplow&#8217;s New York Times crossword I don&#8217;t know how old Joel Kaplow is. My guess is 65+ based on the fill, because there are a lot of answers that felt pre-Shortzian to me. The six intersecting 15s were all fine, if not particularly exciting (though the SINGING TELEGRAM is fun). But then there&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday, 2/1/12</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Celebrity untimed Elizabeth Gorski&#8217;s New York Times crossword This theme is being pulled in two different directions. You&#8217;ve got the word ladder that goes from HAWK to HARK to HARE to CARE to CORE to COVE to LOVE to DOVE (hang on, there&#8217;s no reason to pass through LOVE since COVE to DOVE is a [...]]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[Randall J. Hartman]]></category>

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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, 1/19/12</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re near Killingworth, Connecticut, Jan O&#8217;Sullivan (who comments here as &#8220;danjan&#8221;) has organized a local crossword tournament at the Killingworth Library this Sunday afternoon. Details here. Also, the weekend after this one is when the grand Silicon Valley Puzzle Fest takes place. Terrific line-up of Saturday workshops, plus assorted puzzle tournaments (crosswords, sudoku, cryptics—adults [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday, 1/12/12</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NYT applet seems to be kaput Thursday night. The .puz file is available in the usual place, though. Gareth Bain&#8217;s New York Times crossword Hey, what&#8217;s this Canadian puzzle doing in an American newspaper, eh? Gareth (who&#8217;s South African, which means he has more of a Canadian sensibility than an American one, no?) has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday, 1/5/12</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dan Schmiedeler&#8217;s New York Times crossword Funky theme: ALL FOR ONE and ONE FOR ALL tell you to swap the ONEs for ALLs and vice versa. Like so: 14a&#8217;s clue, ["That was funny!"], calls for &#8220;GOOD ONE!&#8221; but what fits is GOODALL. In the opposite corner, 59a: [Jane who wrote "In the Shadow of Man"] [...]]]></description>
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