60d Hot cocoa holder. Two newspapers did object, so I had to redo that entire third of the puzzle. Public Contact Information: But the deeper meaning, I guess, is that it represents the culmination of many years trying to make it as an independent Sunday crossword constructor. You can see us doing it in "Wordplay.
Used to be that words like SEERESSES were always on the bottom and that entries containing J's, Q's, X's, and Z's were rare in wide-open puzzles. You can easily improve your search by specifying the number of letters in the answer. I said, "Yes, as long as you keep doing what you're doing. " I find them very interesting — just to see how amazingly "crosswordable" the English language is.
When they do, please return to this page. The kind where anagrams are formed, but the anagrams sound like they were written by an excited half-literate idiot. I cry in a lot of movies, but this one was a bawler. Soon you will need some help. 33d Funny joke in slang. "__ shoe fits... L.A.Times Crossword Corner: Thursday, April 14th, 2016 Mike Peluso. ": IF THE. I know what I'm getting into when I make a puzzle for the tournament, so I expect the top people to just race through it. Here's a snippet of the old map now hanging on my wall - my house was the little black dot in the yellow highlight beneath the "B1053" road designation. For unknown letters). Weigh station counts: AXLES.
AND FINALLY... All good things must come to end folks. He didn't quite spell my name right, which I don't mind (and I'm certainly used to), but his last comment was, "I think she liked us! Very often an idea is good, but the execution is not. The solution to the *They're marked with Xs crossword clue should be: - HIDDENTREASURES (15 letters). Grisham output: NOVELS. Whatever it is, please take the time to tell us about it! They are filled with x's crossword clue. The computer has relieved the constructor of the "burden" of doing a crossword's fill, the incidental words. A person's experience on a particular occasion; "he had a time holding back the tears"; "they had a good time together". Can you describe your involvement with that tournament, including how it came to be? A couple of years ago I heard about the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, and started to follow it keenly from afar. Not the crossword industry per se, but getting newspapers to learn how a puzzle should be presented.
But I am a pretty good anagrammer, so I do enjoy Scrabble a lot. IRANI — strictly a variant but always clued as simply "Tehran dweller". It started in 1978 — a manager of some sort at the Marriott in Stamford CT called Gene Maleska, the editor of the New York Times crossword at the time, to see if he would consider running a crossword tournament at the hotel as a way of luring New Yorkers up to Stamford and staying over. X is not: OOOOXOOXO OOXOOOOOO OOOOOXOOO OXOXOOOOO OOOOOXOOX XOOXOOOOO OOOOOOOOO XOXOOOXOO OOOOOOOOX. But what exactly is a wide open grid, and why is it a good thing? The crossword packing puzzle. Declare null and void; make ineffective; "Cancel the election results"; "strike down a law". Composer Rorem: NED.
Nachos, e. g. : TEX-MEX DISH. Few people have had more influence on the evolution of the American crossword puzzle over the last couple of decades.