{"id":111,"date":"2020-03-20T17:18:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T17:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jklcrosswords.com\/?p=111"},"modified":"2021-04-22T12:29:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T12:29:46","slug":"puzzle-15-crossword-tournament-from-your-couch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jklcrosswords.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/20\/puzzle-15-crossword-tournament-from-your-couch\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle 15: Crossword Tournament From Your Couch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As many of you know, this American Crossword Puzzle Tournament was supposed to be starting today. Obviously, it’s not happening now, but to make sure that solvers can still get their tournament fix, Finn Vigeland and Kevin Dur have created the Crossword Tournament From Your Couch<\/a>, which will take palace tomorrow, Saturday, March 21, from 1:00 – 5:00 pm Eastern Time. And one of the puzzles in there is a collaboration by me and Laura Braunstein! The others are by Patrick Blindauer, Rachel Fabi, Joel Fagliano, Finn Vigeland and Byron Walden, with a warm-up puzzle by Robyn Weintraub, and honestly seeing my name alongside those guys still feels surreal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, I can’t tell you any more about the puzzles, except to say that they’re all really good and you should definitely sign up for the tournament, especially since participation is free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other puzzle news, I’ve added “crossword construction” to our attempts at homeschooling, and so far my daughter and I have made two puzzles. For now I’ve just been posting them to Twitter<\/a>, but if we ever get up to constructing something closer to a full-size puzzle I’ll definitely post it here. In the meantime, here are images of the first two puzzles. See if you can guess what books we’ve been reading for the last year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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