LA Times Puzzle Tomorrow!

The proprietor of this website makes his newspaper crossword debut tomorrow as the author of the July 13, 2005 Los Angeles Times Crossword Puzzle. If you want to solve the puzzle online, you can go to the Los Angeles Times site and look for the link to Crosswords. You may need to register to do this. While not entirely necessary you can solve the puzzle offline by downloading the puzzle file (lat050713.puz) and playing it in the free Across Lite software you can also download at the LA Times site.

You can also do the thing in the newspaper, in pen and ink, just like our fathers used to on the train out of Ronkonkoma.

Wait! How do I know if my newspaper carries the LA Times Puzzle?

Very simple. Check your newspaper today (Tuesday) and look for a crossword puzzle. (Not that 11x13 "chumpword" puzzle. It's regulation size, 15x15.) If the puzzle that appears on 7/12 is from Tribune Media Services (distributors of the LA Times Puzzle), and the first Across clue is "Cairo's river", then you're in business.

The puzzle may or may not carry a byline; today's is by Stella Daily and Bruce Venzke.

The editor is Rich Norris, and looking over my original clueset for this puzzle, I expect changes especially since this is a Wednesday puzzle (and also because that's what editors do). He also changed the grid some because the original had a word which could be construed as an ethnic slur in it, but clued very innocently. Reminds me that there's a report, maybe apocryphal, that Eugene T. Maleska, the esteemed former editor of the New York Times crosswords, once ran a puzzle that included a clue "The ____ mightier than the sword". Mmm-hmmm.

Once the smoke clears (because I don't want to spoil your fun of doing this puzzle), I will discuss the particular theme. Until then enjoy the puzzle.

Check at the sidebar over to the left for other upcoming dates... we've been shipping out tons of puzzles lately and hopefully will make a few more sales with them.