![]() But the puzzle I saw this Sunday, by constructing legend Jeff Chen, is the superlatively greatest of them all. And I have seen good puzzles, bad puzzles, and superlatively great puzzles. ![]() An assistant responded that the “theme didn’t excite him quite enough.” (The right call, for the record.) Once, in 2009, in the high fever of infatuation, I even constructed my own crossword puzzle ( so hard) and sent it in to Will Shortz. The intensity of my love for crosswords waxes and wanes depending on life’s other commitments, but when it’s on the rise, I’m the kind of person who will spend 20 minutes reading the big crossword blogs. I saw the excellent documentary Wordplay, I bought a digital subscription, and as I improved, I set myself the outrageous task of successfully completing a Friday, Saturday, and Sunday puzzle in the same week-a tantalizing goal I have come within one letter of achieving, but that eludes me still. ![]() I was hooked, and within a couple years I had graduated on to the creme de la creme: The New York Times puzzle, edited by Will Shortz. I watched my mother complete them as a child, but my own obsession started in a campus dining hall with the simple, small puzzles that ran in my school newspaper-and which seemed very difficult at the time. Confession: I love crossword puzzles, and have loved them for a little over a decade.
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