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Puzzle coming to Saturday WSJ

The Wall Street Journal announced Friday that is adding a regular puzzle to its Saturday edition, beginning tomorrow.

“The Journal is already home to an outstanding Friday crossword, and readers will no doubt relish our new Saturday line-up of adventurous and addictive puzzles,” said Robert Thomson, editor-in-chief of Dow Jones & Co. and managing editor of The  Journal. “Our aim is to amuse and bemuse intelligent people.”

Following the regular Friday Puzzle in Weekend Journal, The Saturday
Puzzle rotation will feature:

* Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon, creators of the Atlantic’s Puzzler, will contribute a cryptic crossword every four weeks.  Readers who are new to cryptics, which rely on cleverness and wordplay, can consult a guide to solvers on WSJ.com;

* Patrick Berry, author of the “Puzzle Masterpieces” collection, and Mike Shenk, the Journal’s crossword editor, will offer a novelty word puzzle every two weeks that explodes the usual across-and-down grid and replaces it with snakes, snowflakes, honeycombs, and other mind-bending shapes;

* Shenk also offers an acrostic every four weeks, in which a solver fills in answers to clues and transfers the letters to a grid that spells out a secret quotation.

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  • Please get rid of the Crypto Kr*p...they are not fun, and the difficulty is cultic, not sophistication or intellectual rigor. You might as well tell your readers to debug a High Level Assembler Program...it would appeal to about 0.005% of your readers.

    A tiny, vocal cult - mostly displaced Brits -- crow about these things because it is they who have severed enough connections in their own brains to become successful at them. Even HR and EC call them CRAZY and here is the definition of CRAZY according to Dictionary.com

    –adjective 1. mentally deranged; demented; insane.
    2. senseless; impractical; totally unsound: a crazy scheme.

    At least cut the frequency of these way, way back. It isn't fair to the vast majority of your readership who find them annoying and would much rather have the opportunity to solve something where a shread of logic is required.

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