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 to...
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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 me...
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At least, I hope they're not billing for this. The Daily Report, a prominent newspaper for legal professionals, apparently runs a weekly crossword...
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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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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 under...
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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 ran...
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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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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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Creating a grid of interlocked letters that spells out real words is a tough task, as any Scrabble player knows. Adding the symmetrical requirements...
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Welcome to the new SF Pencil Games column, a blog for people who like crossword puzzles, sudoku, cryptograms, rebuses and other brain-teasing time...
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