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November 01, 2010

CROSSWORD #276: Themeless Monday

ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ THEMELESS MONDAY] 
PROGRAM: [Across Lite]

PROGRAM: [Java]

PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ THEMELESS MONDAY]
PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]

All BEQ, all the time. We got four BEQ puzzles this week: two regularly scheduled on the blog Monday and Thursday, with the Times on Tuesday and the Onion on Wednesday. Phew. Links to them here when they're live.

UPDATE: New York Times puzzle: [Across Lite] [PDF]

UPDATE: Onion puzzle: [Across Lite] [PDF]

If that weren't enough, the Visual Thesaurus puzzle's up too. Go get 'it.

Still haven't had enough puzzles? Can I recommend Patrick Blindauer's seasonally-challenged "Summerfest"? Ten puzzles for $10. Seems like a sweet deal. Or, if you missed it on Friday, Michael Sharp had a guest guest puzzle on this here blog.

This last one's off topic, but just slightly. Ben Zimmer (he of the On Language column/Visual Thesaurus fame) brought to my attention that the actor playing bass in the above video was supposedly a crossword constructor. According to the They Might Be Giants FAQ, Mr. X "retired from music and currently writes crosswords for the Daily News." I'll open the question out to the audience: anybody recognize the man?

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