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ChrisL
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Rabid reader, passable poet, casual cruciverbalist, armchair etymologist, list lover, coffee quaffer, and music maniac.
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New #Book: Easy Crosswords for Peace by Malaika Handa! You can't go wrong with this one: for yourself, to support indie #crosswords, or as the perfect gift for a crosswording friend (or one who should be). More info and links → chrisl64.me/crosswords-w...
Cover of Malaika Handa's new book Easy Crosswords for Peace
December 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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RIP: Tom Stoppard. My commonplace books are rife with bits of Stoppard's plays I've collected over the years, but the simple bit I keep returning to most of late is from _Jumpers_, Dottie quoting Archie, her psychiatrist:

It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting

#rip #tom-stoppard
Tom Stoppard, wearing a black jacket over a white dress shirt, elbow on a round table, in 1990 at the Venice Film Festival. CC-BY-SA licensed photo by Gorup de Besanez
December 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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I am enswooned by @malaika-h.bsky.social's new site, featuring a heatmap-with-linked-flyout-overleaf-thingamajig of her astounding number of published #crossword puzzles (562 at the moment! But probably 575 by the time I press publish in a minute or two).
2025 (so far) section of a heatmap with colors indicating presence---and number/size---of anything published that day. More than half of the days show something published.
June 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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I can't believe I hadn't heard that Martha SIlano passed (on May 4). RIP. A wonderful #poet gone far too early. → marthasilano.net || #rip #poetry #poem
What Are You Reading? —question at a dinner party Finches—their reluctance to visit her feeder. Dirt in a fuchsia-filled pot. Venus and Jupiter, low in the western sky: Jupiter, closer than it's been in a while. The kitchen towel's heretofore unnoticed ochre. The marquee the marquee the marquee . . . Corn chip pretzel roasted pine nut barefoot Braille on a dining room rug. Three-way billboard just before the slats slip into meaning. Because I might need one, the 12 definitions of crown. Because I might need it, the 5th definition of congress. Spots on my Spanish teacher's skirt. Leopard print skirt not once but twice in a row. Date on a package of yeast. Umber of tracked-in leaves. Feel of the dough feel of the dough . . . Tools. A mud-caked trowel. Of the many shades of dying, of the many realms. Crumbs on this quarter stick of butter. Crumbs of this bread . . . —Martha Silano —found in _The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception_ (2011)
June 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Fun #crossword #clue → 19A: Bass output (4) | New York Times | Saturday, May 03, 2025 | Michael Lieberman
19a: Bass output (4) = ALES | New York Times | Saturday, May 03, 2025 | Michael Lieberman
June 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Seen today. If you know, you know. #crosswords #cruciverbalism
me: can't wait to make an ambitious themeless grid. crossfire: have you considered ANAL WAX
June 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Squeezy...a good #word #game from the aptly named Hey, Good Game studio. → imsqueezy.com
Word game in which you must decide where letters "squeeze" into an existing word. First row. for example. is H blank U blank P -- into which an M can be squeezed to form "hump"
June 2, 2025 at 3:30 AM