Your letters and cards and messages this week have been nothing short of energizing. Maybe the blog is educational, hopefully it's entertaining. It was stunning to me that anyone showed up to listen, and it remains stunning that there are so many people who share my irrationally emotional attachment to the act of putting letters in boxes every day.
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I'm truly just some guy with a laptop and free blogging software who started yelling about crossword puzzles one day in 2006 and then, well, just never shut up. I'm not an objective explainer of things. I love that you all are able to see past my political outspokenness and personal idiosyncrasies and (I'm told) occasional "grouchiness" because you recognize that at the heart of this whole blogging endeavor is a sincere love for crosswords and the wide, weird world of people who solve them. I'm genuinely thrilled to be a part of so many people's regular solving routines. I'm proud of having made it 15 years, and (brain willing) I'm looking forward to 15 more. It has been a real joy hearing from so many of you this week. *** HELLO, READERS AND FELLOW SOLVERS IN SYNDICATIONLAND!***- Today is the last day of my annual one-week appeal for financial support. (Fred thought the lyrics were "Lucy in disguise with diamonds" when he first heard that song.) // The other members of the Playboy Band did not like the unusual slow abrupt ending with Fred intoning the final line, "I guess I'll just take your glasses." (wikipedia) Its title is a play on, and a mondegreen of, the Beatles song " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds ". The song features strings, brass, a sitar, piano, bass, guitar, drums, breathing sounds, and dissonant string sounds. The song was jointly written and composed by Fred and bandmate Andrew Bernard. " Judy in Disguise (With Glasses) " is a song that was a hit for the Louisiana -based John Fred & His Playboy Band in late 1967. Word of the Day: "JUDY IN DISGUISE" ( 93A). "COME ON EILEEN" (110A: ENT I CEMENT (#1, 1983)) (Dexys Midnight Runners) (no apostrophe in "Dexys," weirdly) ("enticement" is a "come-on," and in the clue the "I" is "leaning")."RUMOUR HAS IT" (101A: T ITTLE-TATTLE (#16, 2011)) (Adele) ("tittle-tattle" is "rumour," and it contains (or "has") "it" inside it)."JUDY IN DISGUISE" (93A: CHAN_E _PPEA_ANCE TO CONCEA_ _D MISLEA_ (#1, 1968)) (John Fred and His Playboy Band) (!?!?!?!?!?) (the clue phrase means "disguise" and the missing letters in that phrase spell out a famous Judy, namely GARLAND)."crazy" is standard cryptic crossword anagram indicator) (#1, 1984)) (Prince) (clue is an anagram of LOST, E.G. "DEVIL INSIDE" (60A: VAU DEVILLIAN (#2, 1988)) (INXS) ("DEVIL" is "inside" the word "Vaudevillian")."THE POWER OF LOVE" (36A: xº (#1, 1985)) (Huey Lewis and the News) (variable "x" raised to the."I'LL BE AROUND" (29A: BILLE (#3, 1972) (The Spinners) (standard cryptic cluing: "I'LL" with "BE" around (i.e.it has disappeared from the end of the Hitchcock title, which is in fact about a disappearing lady) "SHE'S NOT THERE" (23A: THE LADY VANI_ (#2, 1964)) (The Zombies) (this is the best clue of the lot, by far: "SHE'S" is literally not there, i.e.
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