We are starting a new puzzle today. We're going back to the New York Times Learning Network to work on their latest crossword puzzle entitled Asian-American History, by Frank Longo, edited by Will Shortz. Click on the puzzle title above or on the link to the right to get the crossword.
As usual, I started the puzzle by doing all of the fill-in-the-blanks. There are lots to choose from in this puzzle so don't worry if you don't know one or two, you will still have plenty of words to get you started.
Once I filled all of them in, I noticed that I had gotten 3 close together, 50, 60 and 61 down, in the lower center block. I decided this would be a good jumping off point. More letters filled in means less work for me.
So, I looked at the crossing clues. 59 and 63 across were both names of famous Asian-Americans. I didn't know the answers but I could use the links on the Learning Network page to find out more. I just started the puzzle so I wasn't ready to look up info just yet.
That left me with -
66 across Person gazing fixedly
Luckily, I knew the answer and then I had a few more letters to build off of. I just kept working across and down building off of each new answer.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
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