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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Re: NYT Crossword puzzle of Sunday, 11/4 (SPOILER)
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Date: Thu, 8-Nov-84 00:22:14 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  8 00:22:14 1984
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>> The Sunday New York Times Crossword Puzzle (11/4/84) contained
>> one of the funniest puzzle premises I have ever seen.  I recommend
>> to puzzle and word fans.  Be carefull now!  In the rest of this
>> memo I am going to give away much of the fun...

>> The puzzle takes the phrase "all for one and one for all" literally.
>> There are several definitions, well-marked, where one can see the
>> results of this.  For example, one question, for which the answer
>> ought to be "Stallone", actually has the answer "Stoneall"...

>> 	- Toby Robison (not Robinson!)

Yes, the 11/4 puzzle was one of the better ones.  But back before
Maleska (and before Will Weng, too), the NYT Sunday puzzles were
a lot more inventive.  My favorite still is the one titled "Blankety-
blank", where for the first time ever, *NOT* filling in every square
was necessary for a correct solution, as the space (pronouned "blank")
was a legal character.  It took me hours to figure out how to spell
"blanket" in 3 letters, though "point blank" in 6 was quite obvious
thereafter.  Another fun one had the solutions to all the special clues
spelled backwards or bottom-to-top.
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