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	<title>Diary of a Crossword Fiend &#187; Patrick Blindauer</title>
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	<description>The best crosswords in newspapers and online</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>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>Tuesday, 1/24/12</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex Boisvert&#8217;s New York Times crossword Our Tuesday NYT theme is a vowel progression one, with D*E filling its gap with A, E, I, O, U, and also Y The D*E word jumps around from middle to end to beginning, with each location represented twice so that the inconsistency has a consistency. In order to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday, 1/13/12</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joe DiPietro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marti DuGuay-Carpenter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holy cats, people! It&#8217;s Friday the 13th! And you know what that means. Yep, that&#8217;s right: The next day will be Saturday the 14th. Todd Gross and Doug Peterson&#8217;s New York Times crossword Hey! This puzzle is a hair too easy. If I can dip below the 4-minute mark, that means the Tyler Hinmans and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday, 12/22/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a Facebook user, check out the new Crosswords app from PuzzleSocial. New ways to solve competitively or in tandem with a friend, plus the standard &#8220;solve online by yourself&#8221; and &#8220;print out the puzzle&#8221; options. The familiar CrosSynergy and Newsday daily puzzles, plus the indie/alt-weekly puzzles that are blogged here weekly. And all-new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday, 12/10/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 04:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Corey Rubin&#8217;s New York Times crossword Oh! Look at that! 1-Across is LEGO MEN. We have lots of Lego people (some are women) in this house. In fact, a couple weeks ago, I took pictures of my kid&#8217;s array of Lego humanoids, and I am pleased to be able to share that with you tonight. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday, 12/2/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 03:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tony Orbach]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple solving-software tips to share: If you&#8217;ve got a .puz file but you are on a computer without Across Lite (perhaps as a houseguest in an Across Lite–free domicile), you can drop a .puz file onto Derek Slager&#8217;s webpage (using an HTML5-savvy browser—Google Chrome 4 or Mozilla Firefox 3.6 or better) and voilà, the [...]]]></description>
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