Posts Tagged ‘Patrick Jordan’
Wednesday, 7/20/11
Friday, 7/8/11
Wednesday, 6/22/11
Sunday, 6/5/11
The crossword world congratulates China’s Li Na on her French Open championship today! Not only does she offer a fresher way to clue LINA than [Director Wertmüller], but she’ll let us get a really short full name in the grid. U NU, step off. We will keep LI NA now.
Tags: Doug Peterson, Emily Cox, Henry Rathvon, John Lampkin, Merl Reagle, Patrick Jordan, Yaakov Bendavid
Wednesday, 5/25/11
Wednesday, 5/11/11
Bonus crossword this week! Francis Heaney is a contributor to The Final Edition, a satirical imagining of the final edition of the New York Times, and he’s constructed “The Final Crossword, by Willy Shortz.” Sample clues: 35a. [Old detergent brand that might still be available somewhere; I don't feel like checking], 5 letters 18a. [Sport [...]
Tags: Ben Tausig, Francis Heaney, Jonah Kagan, Matt Jones, Mike Peluso, Patrick Jordan
Thursday, 4/28/11
Today the Chicago Tribune ran a story about last Saturday’s notable LA Times crossword by Michael Wiesenberg—by none other than LA Times crossword editor Rich Norris. Check it out.
Tags: Brendan Emmett Quigley, Gary Cee, Joe DiPietro, Jonathan Porat, Patrick Jordan
Tuesday, 4/12/11
I know many of you love to do acrostics. If you’re always on the lookout for more acrostics, check out Cynthia Morris’s American Acrostics site. The puzzles are all thematic—American history—and a new acrostic is posted every Friday. Enjoy!
Tags: Barry C. Silk, Jerome Gunderson, Matt Jones, Patrick Jordan
Sunday, 3/27/11
WaPo tba You can download the Sunday CrosSynergy puzzle in Across Lite at the Island of Lost Puzzles. Red alert! Red alert! The Sunday NYT is a crazy size (17×29) that won’t work with the applet. The applet works fine—but features a replacement “archival” puzzle by Matt Ginsberg (which I enjoyed and don’t recall seeing [...]
Tags: Emily Cox, Frank Longo, Henry Rathvon, Kevin G. Der, Matt Skoczen, Merl Reagle, Patrick Jordan, Victor Fleming
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