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	<title>Diary of a Crossword Fiend &#187; Deb Amlen</title>
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	<description>The best crosswords in newspapers and online</description>
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		<title>Wednesday, 1/18/12</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Handman&#8217;s New York Times crossword The theme was okay, but something about this puzzle held me at arm&#8217;s length. Just wasn&#8217;t getting into any sort of groove with it. Some of it was fill like ENIAC, EEE, SMEE, REPIN, and ADAIR pushing me away, and some of it was just not parsing the clues. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday, 12/7/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Julian Lim&#8217;s New York Times crossword Hot on the heels of his Tuesday LAT puzzle, here&#8217;s Julian with the NYT. Surprisingly easy for a Wednesday, no? I paid no mind to the theme while solving, because the &#8220;(whose symbols are found at the ends of the answers to the five asterisked clues)&#8221; explanation was rather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday, 9/28/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 02:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Salitan&#8217;s New York Times crossword Steve interprets 65a: CLOUT as &#8220;CL&#8221; OUT and jettisons the CL from the start of four phrases, cluing what remains in a plausible way: 20a. (cl)EAR CUT SOLUTION is iodine, for a barber. Eh. 26a. Heh. (cl)ASS DISMISSED is fun. 46a. This one takes an insurance industry term, gives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday, 7/20/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Collins&#8217;s New York Times crossword Yay! I ignored the Notepad message and found it easy enough to grasp the theme without paying any attention to the [See blurb] commands. The four answers with that clue spell out ROYAL FLUSH (1a, 71) and SAME SUIT (15a, 67a). The other five theme answers end with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday, 6/8/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 02:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LAT: see LA Crossword Confidential Peter Collins&#8217; New York Times crossword I&#8217;m not philosophically opposed to crosswords that expect you to draw on them when you&#8217;re done, but it helps if the drawing instructions are superfluous because you can figure out what to do on your own. This how-to manual was nuts: connect four Vs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday, 4/13/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey! This Saturday afternoon from 1 to 4 p.m., please join me at the third annual Chicago Crossword Tournament, hosted by Marbles: The Brain Store. If you live in Chicagoland and you&#8217;ve never participated in a crossword tournament before, don&#8217;t miss this opportunity! You&#8217;ll get to: Do crosswords (unpublished New York Times puzzles, courtesy of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday, 2/16/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 04:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you heading to the ACPT in a month? If you&#8217;re interested in joining the Cru for dinner on Friday, March 18, head here for event and reservation details. Michael Barnhart&#8217;s New York Times crossword We don&#8217;t see many 72-word Wednesday puzzles with ambitiously wide-open corners. I&#8217;m not sure those corners are worth the trade-offs, [...]]]></description>
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