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March
29, 2008
Great
Puzzle Alert!
I
haven't posted any Great Puzzle Alerts for awhile but that doesn't
mean there haven't been great puzzles. I just haven't been doing
as many puzzles as I'd like to lately. However, I did run into
three great puzzles this week that I'm sure you'll enjoy if you
haven't already.
The
first was last Sunday's (3/23) NYT by Robert W Harris. The theme
was 'Common Interests' – the goal was to find common
interests of two seemingly unrelated things, e.g. College students
and mattress testers – answer: SPRING BREAKS. There was a
fair amount of crosswordese in this puzzle – I counted 9
words – but the interesting thing was that none of them
began with the letters A or E. That's very unusual.
Another
great NYT puzzle was Tuesday's (3/25) by Steve Salmon. It had a
homonym theme. He managed to fit seven theme entries into a
15 x 15 grid – including a full length entry running down
the middle!
Have
you discovered my newest link – a link to the Philadelphia
Weekly? This past Wednesday's (3/26) puzzle was a gem by Henry
Hook with the theme of 'Car Wrecks'. It was an anagram style theme
– the theme clues were wrecked cars (jumbled phrases) which,
when reconstructed formed the names of a cars, e.g. TRADER OFFERS
became FORD FREESTAR.
March
11, 2008 Pete's
Crosswordese Quiz
March
5, 2008 Same
People, Different Place
March
3, 2008 Clever
Clue of the Month
February
4, 2008 Poetry
Contest
February
1, 2008 Clever
Clue of the Month
January
5, 2008 New
Awards, Art Form
January
2, 2008 Clever
Clue of the Month
December
4, 2007 Great
Puzzle Alert!
December
2, 2007 Clever
Clue of the Month
November
30, 2007 The
opera of the era is on the stereo in your area
November
20, 2007 Great
Puzzle Alert!
November
14, 2007 Found!
November
6, 2007 David
Diebold's New Site
November
1, 2007 Clever
Clue of the Month
October
22, 2007 Sudoku
Has Its Day
October
1, 2007 Clever
Clue of the Month
September
30, 2007 Quick
Links
September
17, 2007 Great
Puzzle Alert
September
3, 2007 Clever
Clue of the Month
August
25, 2007 Great
Puzzle Alert!
August
21, 2007 Great
Puzzle Alert!
July
31, 2007 Clever
Clue of the Month
June
30, 2007 Clever
Clue of the Month
June
29, 2007 Great
Puzzle Alert!
June
1, 2007 Clever
Clue of the Month
May
23, 2007 Interview
with Stanley Newman
May
1, 2007 Clever
Clue of the Month
April
10, 2007 Great
Puzzle Alert!
April
3, 2007 Great
Puzzle Alert!
April
1, 2007 Clever
Clue of the Month
March
28,2007 Interview
with Tyler Hinman
March
1, 2007 Clever
Clue of the Month
February
1, 2007 Clever
Clue of the Month
January
23, 2007 The
State of Crosswords
January
2, 2007 December's
Clever clue of the Month
December
1, 2006 Clever
Clue of the Month
November
1, 2006 Clever
Clue of the Month
October
2, 2006 Clever
Clue of the Month
September
1, 2006 August's
Clever Clue of the Month
August
1, 2006 July's
Clever Clue of the Month
July
15, 2006 Who
Writes Better Puzzles, Humans or Computers
July
1, 2006 June's
Clever Clue of the Month
June
10, 2006 6
Days 'til Wordplay
June
1, 2006 May's
Clever Clue of the Month
May
1, 2006 April's
Clever Clue of the Month
April
15, 2006 The
Perfect Crosswordese Meal
April
1, 2006 Clever
Clue of the Month for March
March
15, 2006 Crosswordese
Hall of Fame
March
1, 2006 Your
Opportunity to Vote
February
11, 2006 30
Minutes of Fame
January
23, 2006 Wordplay
January
1, 2006 Happy
New Year
December
3, 2005 Christmas
Shopping
October
2, 2005 Crossworld
August
20, 2005 Crosswordese
and the Arts
June
26, 2005 Alzheimer’s
and Crossword Puzzles
May
26, 2005 Sudoku
May
1, 2005 Spell-check
April
16, 2005 Frequency
April
7, 2005 Keyhole
March
19, 2005 A
New Champion
March
12, 2005 More
Great Links
March
1, 2005 Chicken
Strata ala King
February
23, 2005 Solution!
February
21, 2005 Letter
Rip?
February
12, 2005 Spelling
Bee
February
1, 2005 A
75th
Anniversary
January
29, 2005 Video
Google
January
22, 2005 Unexpected
Pleasures
January
4, 2005 Invisible
Ink
January
1, 2005 Let
The Adventure Begin
Paul
Stynsberg, Crosswordese.com © 2008
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