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Re: Crosswords (was: [announce] Invented Languages magazine)

From:Fredrik Ekman <ekman@...>
Date:Saturday, May 31, 2008, 11:55
On Sat, May 31, 2008 7:44 am, Tristan McLeay said:

> Without intending to belittle Paul's achievements, I think most > crosswords these days are made by computer.
Depends. The ones you find in major newspapers, I would bet, are still produced manually. Even (or perhaps especially) the "fancy symmetrical ones". That kind of crossword must have existed before there even were any computers, and making a good one is considered an art by the connoisseurs. Fredrik

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