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CROSSWORD #290: Themeless Monday

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Brendan Quigley

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

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PROGRAM: [Java]

PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ THEMELESS MONDAY]

PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]

Sort of a weird looking grid today. A deceptively-low word count with the NE and SW more open than you’d think. Almost 100% sure this is the first time I tried the stacks with the little three-square cheaters in the corner, unless somebody wants to prove me wrong with a tell-tale link. FWIW: 14- and 56-Across were the seed entries for both of those corners.

Share the puzzle. Continue playing Captain Beefheart in memoriam. New one on Thursday.

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Brendan Emmett Quigley has been a professional puzzlemaker since 1996. In fact, he's the sixth-most published constructor in The New York Times under Will Shortz's editorship. Brendan's puzzles have also appeared in every major market including Creators Syndicate, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Crosswords Club, Dell Champion, Games Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Sun, Tribune Media Services, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.

He regularly contributes work to The AV Crossword Club, Bawdy Crosswords, Spirit Magazine, Visual Thesaurus, and The Weekly Dig. At one point in time, Blender, Electronic Business, Paste Magazine, Quarterly Review of Wines, The Stranger, Time Out New York, and Wired.com ran his work. His puzzles have been mentioned on episodes of "The Colbert Report," "Jeopardy!," and "Sunday Night Football."

He is the author of over thirty different books. In his spare time he can be seen banging on typewriters in the Boston Typewriter Orchestra. He will be posting two puzzles a week — on Monday and Thursday.

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CROSSWORD #290: Themeless Monday