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	<description>The best crosswords in newspapers and online</description>
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		<title>Sunday, 2/5/12</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles Deber&#8217;s New York Times crossword, &#8220;State Annexation&#8221; It finally happened. The Scowl-o-Meter went off too much and my face stuck that way. The theme entries all have cross-referenced clues, sending you on a wild goose chase to some small answer on the other side of the grid. Take the two-letter postal abbreviation for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday, 1/29/12</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ian Livengood&#8217;s New York Times crossword, &#8220;Networking Event&#8221; Cool theme: Eight phrases are clued as if they have to do with the TV (mostly cable) channels that the first words double as. Don&#8217;t watch TV? Don&#8217;t have cable? Then this isn&#8217;t the theme for you. If you do watch TV and romped through this puzzle, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday, 1/22/12</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey, folks! Got a touch of that winter cabin fever? Looking for ways to pass the time between now and February 15? You&#8217;ve still got plenty of time to wrestle with Patrick Blindauer&#8217;s newest suite of crosswords, Musical Puzzlefest. Each puzzle has a hidden answer to figure out, and then there&#8217;s a final challenge that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday, 1/15/12</title>
		<link>http://www.crosswordfiend.com/blog/2012/01/14/sunday-11512/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finn Vigeland&#8217;s New York Times crossword, &#8220;Weather Report&#8221; Let us address the elephant in the room: Brendan Emmett Quigley&#8217;s inclusion of this sort of theme on his list of &#8220;Ten Bullsh*t Themes&#8221;: &#8220;Randomly circled letters that spell out some kind of word ostensibly making a non-theme a theme. I don&#8217;t think this would be a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday, 1/8/12</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I made my travel arrangements the other day for the upcoming American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, March 16-18 in Brooklyn. For more info about the weekend&#8217;s events and to register, click here. Tony Orbach&#8217;s New York Times crossword, &#8220;Doing Without&#8221; Tony &#8220;does without&#8221; by taking the word &#8220;with&#8221; out of assorted phrases, thereby changing their meaning. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday, 1/1/12</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re looking for Merl Reagle&#8217;s puzzle before the Crossword Fiend &#8220;Today&#8217;s Puzzles&#8221; links flip over to Sunday, the .puz is at http://mazerlm.home.comcast.net/~mazerlm/pi120101.puz. (As of lunchtime Saturday, the Puzzle Pointers calendar for 2012 Merls isn&#8217;t up yet.) You can also solve online at Merl&#8217;s site. The Puzzle Pointers Hex/Hook 2012 calendar&#8217;s not up yet either, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday, 12/25/11</title>
		<link>http://www.crosswordfiend.com/blog/2011/12/24/sunday-122511/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 23:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Gorski&#8217;s New York Times crossword, &#8220;Ain&#8217;t He Sweet?&#8221;—Jeffrey&#8217;s review O Liz Gorski! O Liz Gorski! How Lovely Are Your Puzzles! O Liz Gorski! O Liz Gorski! We solve them with no troubles! The Gingerbread Man does appear From A to Z you make it clear. O Liz Gorski! O Liz Gorski! How Lovely Are [...]]]></description>
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