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NPR just announced that NY Times Puzzle Editor Will Shortz had a stroke on February 4. He is recovering and was well enough to speak at the conclusion of the Sunday Puzzle. I’m sure the thoughts of puzzle-lovers everywhere are with him.
Regarding 1A — the gram is not a unit of weight, it is a unit of mass. The metric unit of weight, or more accurately force, is the newton.
@Disco Volante I’ve got two classmates who became newsworthy. One got national attention when he was running a used car lot and ran a “buy a car, get a free gun” promo. The other, who bullied me in elementary school, is now in prison for murdering his mother for money to buy drugs,
@J-J Cote I think the NPR announcement was the first public mention. I had noticed his absence from the Sunday Puzzle the past weeks and had been Googling for news about him. I’m a little surprised the Times hasn’t mentioned it. He’s got a right to his privacy, of course, but it’s public knowledge now, and by his choice.
A rebus? On a WEDNESDAY? There should be laws against such horrors, if not a Constitutional Amendment.
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