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January 30, 2012

CROSSWORD #406: Themeless Monday #154

CROSSWORD SOLVER PUZZLE:
[ THEMELESS MONDAY] 
PROGRAM: [Crossword Solver]

PROGRAM: [Java]

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

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

For the "Why didn't I think of that before?" department: Now all the Themeless Monday puzzles will have their series numbers included in the post title. I'm a genius! No really, hold your applause. Bow down before me, instead.

Oh yeah, this one has been declared brutally tough by those in the know. Brutal, but fair. Dan Feyer, don't show off and say this took you 4:20. I want it to take you at least 4 and a half minutes. M'kay?

I've got a couple links for you. The latest (topical) Visual Thesaurus contest puzzle is up now. Go to it, and good luck. The other two come from my man "Miracle" Matt Gaffney. When he isn't writing amazing meta puzzles for his site (his latest one is especially nice) or sending me grainy Dutch documentaries about economics on YouTube (I'll spare you those), he writes amusing articles about crosswords for various publications. His latest on Slate is a doozy. You can read that one here.

Share the puzzle. New one on Thursday. A much easier puzzle, I swear.

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