I'll probably be alone in considering this the most important article of the day.

Shaved a second off my best Monday time to finish at 3:20, making up for the hour and twenty-six minutes on the Harper's cryptic. I think the best strategy on Monday is to work only the across clues as much as possible. After all, down clues are completely redundant, and double the reading!

Happy birthday, atpotch!

Since you got me crosswords, I got you Sudoku!

From The New York Observer (second item):"I’ll probably solve 18 to 20 puzzles in a week, but I do that year-round," [Jon Delfin] said. "I also handicap myself: On Mondays and Tuesdays, I just use the ‘down’ clues. I usually start looking at the ‘across’ clues on Thursday. And for the Sunday puzzle, I usually solve it with my other hand. I don’t ( Read more... )

Reading thedan's LJ tends to depress me, so I'm very pleased by a certain four seconds today.

And, by the way, 48:47 for the Atlantic Puzzler.

Gene Healy amuses:Sons of famous dictators tend to be an amoral and profligate bunch: raping women, torturing athletes, and racing fast cars, like Whoday and Whatsay, drinking expensive cognac, kidnapping ( Read more... )

Private. Had a blank square at 9:59. Was not really happy with the process -- didn't figure out the theme until twenty minutes after finishing it.

More or less.

And 45:01 in the Harper's Puzzle.

I'll have to be less brain-dead next week.

I don't turn to The Plain Dealer for deep insight; indeed, this morning I merely skimmed across the shallows of Chuck Yarborough's gossip roundup. But I was forced to stare into my own abyss by the following:The New York Post asked a handwriting expert to examine the scrawlings of hotel heiress Paris Hilton. The samples were her love letters to an ( Read more... )

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