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July 16, 2015 Philip Zimbardo Thinks We All Can Be Evil Interview by JON RONSON The psychologist on what the Stanford prison experiment continues to reveal about human nature. July 16, 2015 Power in Numbers By GIDEON LEWIS-KRAUS and PHOTOGRAPHS BY FRANCK BOHBOT Scenes from DreamHack, where 23,000 people spend a weekend plugged in together
http://rexwordpuzzle.blogspot.ca/2015/03/1958-space-monkey-sun-3-1-15-movie-that.htmlIt was strictly a one-off, the job rotates -- but it got me on a list of meeting planners, which in turn got me an invitation to a free weekend at the Trapp Family Lodge. Anyway, MOZART made him roll over enough.This was one of those themes that, once you get it, the whole shooting match comes tumbling down in an instant
Diary of a Crossword Fiend : Daily Commentary on Crossword Puzzles
http://crosswordfiend.blogspot.com/Now, while I find the gimmick and the theme fill a tad on the dusty side, I really liked seeing that in each case, the "D" falls in the same spot in its respective row, so that all three of the DAMs are aligned in the grid. Maybe other people are finding this a Monday-level venture, but it hit Thursday medium for me.Perhaps I'm just slow today, because the 35A clue says "two show up in this grid unannounced," but the only DINNER CRASHERs I can find (TAREQ and MICHAELE) are clearly announced as being 35-Acrosses
http://rexwordpuzzle.blogspot.com/2015/05/locale-of-1984-industrial-disaster-sun.htmlThen again I work in the chemical industry where EVERYONE knows about Bhopal.Likewise Liao was a gimme, but then again I also play the Dynasty Warriors series which has banked all the Chinese surnames in my mind that I could ever need. A special apology to OISK for the double product names, but this is an AD AGE.Time now to diacritical death.Dan Icewood, nice puzzle! Whatever you were selling, I BAHT it
In a February puzzle, the clue read: "Preppy, party-loving, egotistical male, in modern lingo." Shechtman recently suggested cluing "shane" as The L Word role for Katherine Moennig, rather than in terms of the 1953 Alan Ladd western, which Shortz usually uses. This year she helped organize the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, even writing one of the puzzles, which included "Jansport," "Jessa" (from Girls), and "humblebrag" among its answers
What does 'Rex Parker' do? 'Rex Parker' does the New York Times Crossword Puzzle! - TwinCities.com
We remember, too, an earlier Christmas, when Alex, then about 3, took a present from Santa, turned and quizzed his parents as to why Santa was wearing Grandpa's boots? (He didn't have any that were black.) So many happy memories ... "All of the answers are on the next page." We presently heard from Walt of Wayzata: "Some advice to Your Late Night Lady: "There's a website called 'Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle.' He has the solution every day -- back to September 25, 2006
Rex Parker crossword puzzles But perhaps the most talked about solver of the famed puzzle is an otherwise little known associate professor of English at Binghamton University, Michael Sharp. Known as the King of the Cross World, Parker works the online version of the puzzle (sometimes in under four minutes) and posts his daily commentary on his blog by 9 AM
The New York Times Crossword in Gothic
http://donaldsweblog.blogspot.com/Author of the books quoted at 17-, 219-, 38-, 46- and 59-Across) and those books with the quotes as clues constitutes the main feature of this Tuesday crossword: HORTON HEARS A WHO (17A. What the first words in 17-, 29- and 48-Across are), along with LIKE, COMMENT and SHARE constitutes the main feature of this Monday crossword: LIKE WHITE ON RICE (17A
Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle
http://rexwordpuzzle.blogspot.com/or what each of 17-, 24-, 50- and 61-Across is? MORNING PERSON There are several amusing ways to increase the difficulty level on easy crosswords: using only the down clues is an increasingly popular one, for example. The others make sense in retrospect, but the theme entries weren't very entertaining and the frustration of not grokking what was going on made for a rather joyless solve
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