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Silicon Valley, sharpen your pencils

You may have just missed the boat for 2010's Crossword Cruise through the Caribbean, but if you have a car, you can still make it to what looks...
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Shop locally for the puzzle lovers on your list

Among the reasons for avoiding the mall this Christmas season, besides not getting as stressed-out as the woman in this photo, is that you live in...
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8 great Hanukkah gifts for puzzle fans

The Jewish festival of lights, which starts this year at sunset on Friday, December 11, celebrates the time when the Maccabees only had enough oil...
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Indie crosswords every day

You can get name-brand crosswords from a local newspaper, the New York Times site, and Games magazine, among many sources. But MyYahoo just turned...
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What lawyers do during non-billable hours

At least, I hope they're not billing for this. The Daily Report, a prominent newspaper for legal professionals, apparently runs a weekly...
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Baseball names for crossword fans

While watching the Red Sox hand Game 1 of the American League Division Series to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, I mulled the rich lexicon of...
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Perhaps crosswords don't make compelling TV

Was I the only person who watched Merv Griffin's Crosswords? Apparently so. Wikipedia's entry was unusually mean, and even the show's website is...
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Will Shortz, the face of American crosswords

The founder of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament is famous, even if you don't recognize his face. He used to just be the enigmatologist who...
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Crossword words that make me cross, pt. 2

For the first installment of cheesy crossword words, I was able to pull most of them from my own memory. However, I still had a few, like obi and...
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Latin is for crossword lovers

The crossword in Monday's Examiner contained not just two Latin phrases, but two consecutive Latin clues, as you can sort of see from this picture....
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