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	<title>Diary of a Crossword Fiend &#187; Tony Orbach</title>
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	<description>The best crosswords in newspapers and online</description>
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		<title>Wednesday, 2/8/12</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lynn Lempel&#8217;s New York Times crossword The last theme entry I filled in was 25a, and it actually made me laugh out loud. Each theme answer doubles the S at the end of the first word, thereby changing the phrase&#8217;s meaning entirely. Your BASS RELIEF is a throat lozenge, you can DISCUSS THROWERS, there&#8217;s no [...]]]></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>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>Thursday, 12/29/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three announcements! Trip Payne&#8216;s going to create a puzzle extravaganza contest—a dozen puzzles of various types with words and images, plus a final &#8220;meta&#8221; puzzle—this spring if he gets enough funding via Kickstarter.com. The puzzles will be along the lines of a &#8220;special section&#8221; in Games World of Puzzles. In other words, nowhere near as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday, 12/11/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Puzzle announcement: Peter Gordon&#8217;s weekly crossword for The Week is now available in Across Lite. Go to http://theweek.com/puzzle and click the relevant link (e.g. &#8220;Crossword &#8211; December 16, 2011&#8243;). That takes you to a page with a puzzle you can click on. Click on that and it takes you to a page where you can [...]]]></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[Patrick Blindauer]]></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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		<title>Friday, 11/25/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 04:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynaldo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Colin Gale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Holland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Krozel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Shenk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Edward Anderson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Krozel&#8217;s New York Times crossword So, the puzzle loosened its belt after a hearty Thanksgiving dinner and made room for an extra row in the middle, allowing a central quad-stack of 15-letter answers. Too much turkey and not enough pie, though—the pie being sparkling fill and entertaining clues, the turkey being blah fill. Pie: [...]]]></description>
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