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Crossword addle architect Merl Reagle (Timothy Healy )
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At the age of 6, Merl Reagle could spell the names of every kid in his first-grade class. For some reason, he still doesn't apperceive why, he started bond them together.
"Maybe somebody gave me a allotment of blueprint paper. I don't know," Reagle said. "I was into Lincoln Logs and Tinker Toys, architecture things. Words were addition affair I could body with. I could accomplish little structures out of words like the toys I had."
Then Reagle apparent crosswords. In those puzzles, he begin a body mate. Decades later, Reagle is the best accepted crossword addle architect in the country. He contributes circadian and Sunday puzzles to added than 50 newspapers nationwide, including The Hartford Courant. He is so admired that he became an activated appearance on one adventure of "The Simpsons."
["368.6"]Like some sofas crossword clue - duck egg blue corner sofas | like some sofas crosswordHis adjustment in a ball TV appearance makes sense. Reagle is accepted for the amusement in his puzzles, with amusing Q&As like "Least accepted cookbook ever: TO GRILL A MOCKINGBIRD," "Whose dream am I in, Mad Hatter?: URINALYSIS" and "I'm not a bad duck, I'm just: MALLARD JUSTED."
That amusement fabricated Reagle acclaimed and continues to draw admirers into the apple of crossword puzzles. This anniversary marks the 100th altogether of the crossword puzzle. To bless the occasion, Reagle has appear a book, "Merl Reagle's 100th Anniversary Crossword Book" (The PuzzleWorks, $13) and created a appropriate copy addle for Courant readers.
Reagle was appear in the New York Times for the aboriginal time back he was 16. But he absolutely begin his alcove back he started amalgam puzzles for Games annual in 1977. At the time, the editor of the annual was Will Shortz, who is now the abiding crossword addle editor at the Times.
In a buzz account from his home in Tampa, Fla., area he lives with his wife, Marie Haley, Reagle, 63, said Games helped him in his ambition of breaking out of a banausic crossword rut.
["388"]material used to stuff sofas crossword clue - Juicing To Health | like some sofas crossword"They were added on my amicableness with their themes. And there were about no abstruse entries in their puzzles, no 'crosswordese'," he said.
Reagle is apropos to those words — accepted to all puzzlers — that accumulate bustling up in addle afterwards puzzle, because the belletrist in the words appear in handy, alike admitting those words aren't acclimated anywhere else, ever. "Yma Sumac" is one of them, that accompanist from the 50s," he said. "Anoa, which is an ox. Ern, which is a sea eagle. You see documentaries about those animals, and they don't alarm them erns. The two-toed sloth, unau, and the three-toed sloth, ai. I saw [Games magazine's] point of abrogation the assembly out."
At that time, he was still accomplishing crosswords as a ancillary job. "I was alive in Hollywood ... on TV bold shows. Whatever I was doing, I was authoritative crosswords on the ancillary on the job at home," he said. "Marie said, 'if crosswords are absolutely what you appetite to do, how can you possibly accomplish a active at it back the accepted architecture of the business is to be a freelancer? There's gotta be a way.'"
He assuredly carved out a different alcove by absorption on the humor. "Most bodies were not acclimated to seeing a addle that was funny, not in newspapers. That was demography a big chance," he said. "I was alteration the crossword, alive how biased the admirers are. Solvers don't apprehend to beam out loud while they're addle solving. ... I absitively to accord with the aggression of mail for a few months."
["388"]Like Some Chairs Crossword Clue - thesecretconsul.com | like some sofas crosswordA career was born. To this day he's one of the few crossword constructors in the country who does annihilation abroad for a living. He is self-syndicated and retains the rights to all his puzzles. PuzzleWorks, the administrator of his new book, is his own publishing house.
Some of Reagle's best memorable Q&A addle jokes: "Did you apprehend that they tore bottomward the old apparitional house? Yes, it was EERIE-PLACABLE." "What is the best accepted allotment of appliance in Egypt? The ARMOIRE SADAT." Worst Muzak Songs for a Doctor's Office: KILLING ME SOFTLY, STOP DRAGGIN' MY HEART AROUND, TRYIN' TO GET THE FEELIN' AGAIN.
And one of his favorites: "Holder of lath meetings? NAIL."
History Of Crosswords
["645.05"]Sofa Crossword Clue - Best Sofa Decoration And Craft 2017 | like some sofas crosswordArthur Wynne, a British journalist, appear the aboriginal crossword puzzle, on Dec. 21, 1913, in the New York World. He alleged it "word-cross. It was shaped like a design and included 31 words, with aboveboard clues like "a river in Russia" and "an beastly of prey."
In the afterward years, puzzles became approved appearance in newspapers nationwide. They were such a hot trend in the 1920s that librarians complained that puzzlers would absorb the dictionaries in the libraries, shutting out added users. But the trend best up steam, and the aboriginal book of puzzles was appear in 1924.
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