Ngrams: Will Shortz, Margaret Farrar, Eugene T. Maleska.
Also, irony from today's New York Times crossword: Even though this puzzle finally fixes a long-standing complaint I've heard from Spanish-speaking crossworders—that ANO isn't Spanish for "year", it's Spanish for "anus"—by having four crossing spaces use Ñ (in particular, AÑO crossing SEÑOR), the Across Lite version of the puzzle required Ns and marked wrong the Ñs I pasted in. Alas!
Also, irony from today's New York Times crossword: Even though this puzzle finally fixes a long-standing complaint I've heard from Spanish-speaking crossworders—that ANO isn't Spanish for "year", it's Spanish for "anus"—by having four crossing spaces use Ñ (in particular, AÑO crossing SEÑOR), the Across Lite version of the puzzle required Ns and marked wrong the Ñs I pasted in. Alas!
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Date: 2010-12-29 04:24 pm (UTC)