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But I do now, and I’m consistently impressed with Anna Shectman’s contributions. [6] The larger Sunday crossword, which appears in The New York Times Magazine, is an icon in American culture; it is typically intended to be as difficult as a Thursday puzzle. Including your boss, your work spouse, and your friend in HR. Print and digital subscriptions to The New York Times do not include free access to The Crossword. The maximum word count for a themed weekday puzzle is normally 78 words, while the maximum for an unthemed Friday or Saturday puzzle is 72; Sunday puzzles must contain 140 words or fewer. )[18], A few crosswords have achieved recognition beyond the community of crossword solvers. 5 month ago, @verge IT AND – “Read _____ weep!” – I really feel like “read ’em and weep” is the more-common expression, so this was going to be stuff I didn’t like. (The point here is that the single phrase “become understood” can be replaced with the single phrase “sink in,” regardless of whether or not it is followed by anything else. RAM DASS – LSD pioneer and author of the New Age classic “Be Here Now” – Fascinating guy who researched LSD with Timothy Leary at Harvard, until they were both terminated in 1963 as a result of that research.