NYT 3:49 (Amy) 
(3.14 avg; 32 ratings)
LAT 3:24 (Amy) 
(3.92 avg; 18 ratings)
Jonesin' 2:58 (Amy) (2.92 avg; 6 ratings)
CS 13:18 (Ade) 
(3.69 avg; 8 ratings)
Xword Nation untimed (Janie) 
(4.33 avg; 6 ratings)
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puzzle — 9:19; meta — 1 hour (Matt) (3.68 avg; 11 ratings)
NYT 3:22 (pannonica) (3.63 avg; 30 ratings)
Fireball 7:12 + 5-10 mins (Amy) (4.29 avg; 12 ratings)
LAT 3:28 (pannonica) (2.90 avg; 10 ratings)
CS 12:47 (Ade) (3.38 avg; 8 ratings)
BEQ 5:18 (Amy) (4.04 avg; 13 ratings)
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NYT 9:39 (Amy) (4.58 avg; 56 ratings)
Reagle 7:43 (Amy) (3.95 avg; 10 ratings)
LAT 6:52 (Amy) (2.91 avg; 11 ratings)
Hex/Hook untimed (pannonica) (2.83 avg; 3 ratings)
WaPo 21:14 (Sam) (3.95 avg; 10 ratings)
CS 26:18 (Ade) (3.71 avg; 12 ratings)
If Patrick Blindauer’s recent week of meta-puzzle crosswords in the New York Times whetted your appetite for more, sign up for Patrick’s next puzzle suite, Space Puzzlefest.
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Newsday 8:17 (Amy) (3.88 avg; 4 ratings)
NYT 6:21 (Amy) (3.44 avg; 26 ratings)
LAT 5:13 (Andy) (3.04 avg; 14 ratings)
CS 11:51 (Ade) (3.20 avg; 5 ratings)
Anna Shechtman wrote about getting started in crossword constructing and working for Will Shortz here.
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NYT 5:01 (Amy) (4.30 avg; 35 ratings)
LAT 5:04 (Gareth) (3.63 avg; 15 ratings)
CS 7:58 (Ade) (3.00 avg; 6 ratings)
CHE 6:08 (pannonica) (3.57 avg; 7 ratings)
WSJ (Friday) 13:23 (pannonica) (4.00 avg; 9 ratings)
If you’ve got $1.49, a Kindle or the Kindle app, and an hour to kill, check out constructor Robert Harris’s mystery novella, A Most Puzzling Murder. It’s a murder mystery set at a crossword tournament in New York, an event run by “Gotham Record puzzle editor Bill Long.” I found it hilarious and I didn’t see the ending coming (I bet some of you will).
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NYT 4:17 (Amy) (3.33 avg; 29 ratings)
LAT 4:20 (Gareth) (3.37 avg; 19 ratings)
CS 8:49 (Ade) (3.33 avg; 9 ratings)
BEQ tk (Matt) (3.81 avg; 8 ratings)
Fireball write-up coming Sunday night in the 11/10 post. Contest puzzle! Non-impossible meta!
Nikki Gloudeman at Ravishly interviewed me for her article, “Does The New York Times Crossword Puzzle Have A Sexism Problem?” Gloudeman asks: “But if solvers are pretty much equally divided among the genders, and there was a time when female constructors served in an equal capacity to men, is it really true that men like to do puzzles more? Or is it, perhaps, that this is a false and damning presumption entrenched at the top?”
Also, Brendan Quigley will be posting his regular Thursday crossword later on this evening. We’ll blog it soon thereafter.
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AV Club 4:23 (Amy) (3.79 avg; 12 ratings)
NYT 3:22 (Amy) (3.04 avg; 37 ratings)
LAT untimed (Doug) (3.16 avg; 16 ratings)
CS 11:04 (Ade) (3.61 avg; 9 ratings)
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crossword 5:26
meta DNF3 days, ultimately with help (4.45 avg; 21 ratings)
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Jonesin' 5:31 (Amy) (4.33 avg; 6 ratings)
NYT 3:31 (Amy) (3.67 avg; 35 ratings)
LAT 2:52 (Amy) (3.21 avg; 14 ratings)
CS 11:38 (Ade) (2.90 avg; 5 ratings)
Xword Nation untimed (Janie) 
(4.80 avg; 5 ratings)
Blindauer 9:30 (Matt) (4.25 avg; 2 ratings)
Tuesday is election day! If you are registered to vote in the US and you haven’t already completed your ballot, please take the time to vote.
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