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Old Feb 5, 2011 | 10:48 am
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Originally Posted by fadeforward
I was just going to start a thread on this. I hope this isn't the start of a trend. This is more trivia than a wordgame, IMO. And the asymmetry is simply embarrassing. Looks like it the layout was done by a high school freshman.
Reminds me of a Hemispheres in 2008 or so where half the Down clues were from another puzzle entirely and thus made the thing unsolvable. I do hope this is not the start of a trend.
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