But this one, which the Post took, turned out better than I thought humanly possible. (They were reprinting a piece called "Confessions of a Crossword Fanatic" or some such that I'd written for the Philadelphia Inquirer.) The Digest took about 70 photos and printed what I thought was the absolute worst one - I looked like an embarrassed geezer. It's a plastic wall hanging that I've had since 1998 - Reader's Digest actually paid for it as part of a photo shoot they did at that time. " (THE ROCKIES) and "I'd send the Three Stooges to. The big crossword is on my living room wall - it's a blowup of a puzzle I did called "If I Owned a Travel Agency" and has clues like "I'd send Sylvester Stallone to. Took only four hours! (I just don't take any pictures of myself.) And few people cause so many chuckles each weekend as word buffs around the nation plow into Merl's Sunday Crosswords with religious devotion.īut best of all, he's just a really cool dude.Īfter I got the Sunday crossword job at the Washington Post, this was the publicity shot they used. Even if it takes him several years to nail it!įew people have had more influence on the evolution of the American crossword puzzle over the last couple of decades. Time and again Merl pulls off the impossible by finding a way to weave a quirky observation about the English language into an unwelcoming grid to create a puzzle that is both ingenious in design and hilarious in substance. If you've ever solved one of his crossword puzzles, you'll understand exactly what the motto means. It's hard to find a more appropriate subtitle for an article on Merl Reagle than his personal motto: Twisted but Fair.
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