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[1] [4] He worked for Games as a constructor and editor until 1996 except for one year when it was briefly discontinued. [1] He also wrote puzzles for syndication by King Features . [ 4 ] [ 5 ] After leaving Games , he and former Games editors Amy Goldstein and Robert Leighton founded the puzzle-writing company Puzzability in 1996.
Matt Gaffney is a professional crossword puzzle constructor and author [1] who lives in Staunton, Virginia.His puzzles have appeared in Billboard magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Daily Beast, [2] Dell Champion Crossword Puzzles, GAMES magazine, the Los Angeles Times, [3] New York magazine, the New York Times, [3] Newsday, The Onion, Slate magazine, [4] the Wall Street Journal, [3] the ...
Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States. It was created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael ...
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...
Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous, metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low ...
The larger Sunday crossword, which appears in The New York Times Magazine, is an icon in American culture; it is typically intended to be a "Wednesday or Thursday" in difficulty. [7] The standard daily crossword is 15 by 15 squares, while the Sunday crossword measures 21 by 21 squares.
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. is an American spy fiction TV series starring Stefanie Powers that aired on NBC for one season from September 13, 1966, to April 11, 1967. The series was a spin-off from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and used the same theme music composed by Jerry Goldsmith, in a different arrangement by Dave Grusin.