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This weekend's NYT Sunday Magazine has another acrostic by David Balton & Jane Stewart. After solving, post your thoughts on their new blog

 

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Data from puzzles before Will Shortz became editor are kept separate from modern puzzle stats. XWord Info has all 16,083 pre-Shortz crosswords from 2/15/1942 to 11/20/1993.

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