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In Today’s Crossword, 56-Down, 5 Letters: Statues guarding the Art Institute of Chicago| The Daily Northwestern
Dean by day, cruciverbalist by night, Dr. Mark MacLachlan discusses the science behind the art of his hobby as a crossword creator for The New York Times and more.| UBC News
August is flying by – with yoga, concerts in the park, a block party and a lovely book event in Cambridge. Here’s what I have been reading: Into the Leopard’s Den, Harini NagendraI loved this fourth entry in Nagendra’s series featuring Kaveri Murthy, a female detective in 1920s India. This book takes Kaveri from her […]| cakes, tea and dreams
A few weeks again, my friend Malaika Handa nerd-sniped me with an interesting request. She is a very prolific crossword constructor (think: multiple publications a week) and she keeps comprehensive records of those publications in a spreadsheet that is always up to date.1 She wanted a site to display that history in a clean and browsable way. You may know about her 7xwords project, which published crosswords for all the possible 7×7 grids over the course of a year, with 6 posts a week. I mad...| parker higgins dot net
I’m releasing new software today for solving crossword puzzles in the terminal. cursewords is a small Python program to open, navigate, and solve puzzles stored as .puz files. If you’re a Mac or Linux user, you can install it today by running pip3 install --user cursewords in your terminal, and then use the cursewords command to open a .puz file on your computer.| parker higgins dot net