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Prolific crossword creator makes puzzle for S-R From staff reports For our Father’s Day puzzle section, we thought it would be nice to get a crossword puzzle created exclusively for our readers. After a few emails, the name that came to the top was Jeff Chen. He fit our criteria of having
Washington roots and a solid resume of published crosswords. Chen has been creating crosswords for 10 years and recently cracked the New York Times Top 10 list for the most crossword puzzles published in the New York Times. The ninthmost published puzzle creator debuted with the
NYT in July 2010 and has created 121 puzzles in all, the latest published March 7 of this year. Chen was asked to make a puzzle that used clues our readers would recognize. He proposed a puzzle using word play associated with our local universities. Chen is the author of
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the “Ultraball” series ( Ha r p e rCollins). He recently released “It’s Chen So Easy C r o s s words,” and is currently working on a sequel to Bridge Crosswords, an-
other 52 crosswords all about contract bridge. In previous careers, he was a mechanical engineer listed on eight U.S. patents and was involved in the start Acucela Inc., a pharmaceutical company that went public in 2014. Chen is “an avid rock climber, inconceivably terrible bridge player, and
likes ideas, people, and things with nerd cred.” He has also reached about two-thirds of his lifetime goal of donating 20 gallons of blood. “Not all at once,” he adds. Chen grew up in the Bay Area but has lived in Seattle for nearly 25 years. He is married with two children.
Across 1. Where Mark Rypien and Drew Bledsoe played after WSU 4. Setting for “Les Misérables” 9. Some inexpensive pens 13. Bellwether or Whistle Punk brewed beverage 14. Like an engine that’s warming up 16. Radiate out 17. Person seeking prospective Eastern Washington University students? 19. February 14, for short 20. Grand ___ (bigwig) 21. Janis Joplin hit “Me and Bobby ___” 23. Issues a playground challenge 25. Nation on the Persian Gulf 27. Gonzaga student who might say “Cheerio, Zags!”? 32. Took part in the Trailblazer or Hiawatha Trail Run 33. Mo. with many pranks played on its first day 34. Song title spelled out with arm movements 35. “Born in the ___” (Springsteen hit)
36. City close to EWU, Gonzaga, Whitworth, and WSU 40. Manning who quarterbacked the New York Giants 41. Pilots’ guesstimates: Abbr. 43. The IRONMAN Coeur D’Alene, in short 44. Moving day rental 46. Whitworth student majoring in computer science? 50. Blue ___ (jewelry company based in Seattle) 51. Chocolate candies filled with caramel 52. Some Renoir and Degas paintings 55. Flora in the John A. Finch Arboretum 58. Hard wood used for outdoor furniture 60. Courteney Cox sitcom about Washington State University student residences? 63. Leer at 64. Not the sharpest stick 65. Little white lie 66. Tree trunk growth 67. Instant coffee brand 68. Thurman of “Imposters”
Down 1. Groundskeeper Willie’s “Not on your life!” 2. Do part of the chicken dance 3. Big name in little bricks 4. Certain spotted horses 5. Aziz of “Master of None” 6. Entrepreneur’s dream 7. Veiled oath? 8. Area written about by some muckrakers 9. Cleary who wrote “Beezus and Ramona” 10. Declaration of one’s impending doom 11. Org. in Tom Clancy novels 12. “Charlotte’s Web” setting 15. “Blah, blah, blah”: Abbr. 18. Bear Creek in 36-Across, for one 22. Grissom of “CSI” 24. More precarious 26. “I haven’t the foggiest idea” 27. Sheena who sang “U Got the Look” with Prince 28. Championship game that Gonzaga has reached twice (2017, 2021) 29. ___-free (label on many water bottles)
30. “Ode on a Grecian ___” (John Keats) 31. Olympic gold medalist Devers 32. Feels remorseful about 37. Sch. supporting group 38. Bobby who was a legend with the Boston Bruins 39. Continental currency region since 1999 42. Rehab hospital in 36-Across named after an apostle 45. ___ got a chance (is a goner) 47. Form a more perfect union? 48. Kids’ toy that sometimes shoots a cork 49. “Let me make some inquiries” 53. Prefix associated with being green 54. Bursts into tears 56. Makeup of some meat substitutes 57. Take a dip in Badger Lake, perhaps 58. Foley who was Speaker of the House (and born in 36-Across) 59. It’s often inflated or bruised 61. Hagen of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” 62. Where John Stockton played after graduating from Gonzaga: Abbr.
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Digital puzzles coming to Spokane Daily Chronicle From staff reports The puzzles on these two facing pages will soon be available in a digital format in our Spokane Daily Chronicle e-Edition, which debuts on July 12. The Spokane Daily Chronicle will be available free for Spokesman-Review subscribers and only available via our e-Edition, delivered digitally by 6 p.m., Monday through Friday.
The Chronicle e-Edition will have a full page of comics that will be completely different from those you see in The Spokesman-Review. At the bottom of the comics page will be six clickable icons that will take you directly to these digital puzzles. No need to print anything, just fill in the puzzles right on your tablet, desktop or phone. The L.A. Times daily crossword anchors the
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selection of digital puzzles. Readers are familiar with the Sunday L.A. Times crossword, which runs in our Classifieds section. New puzzles include Futoshiki, Hitori, Jumble Crosswords, Sudoku X and Killer Sudoku. For our subscribers, the Daily Chronicle puzzles will be new each day. If you’re not a subscriber, go to our website at spokesman.com/thanks for the best deal.
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For decades, readers relaxed after work with a copy of the Spokane Daily Chronicle, one of the nation’s last local evening newspapers. Each night, thousands would leaf their way through the pages of Spokane’s “afternoon friend” before eating dinner and spending time with their family. In the summer of 1992, without much fanfare, the Chronicle published its final paper. The front page headline read “IT’S BEEN GREAT...” The Chronicle was gone. Generations were now without the newspaper that was here long before there was a “Spokesman” or a “Review” in town.
SO,, WE’RE BRINGING TTHE HE CHRONICLE HRR BACK.
The Spokane Daily Chronicle will be available free for Spokesman-Review subscribers, and only in our e-Edition, delivered digitally by 6 p.m., Monday through Friday. The Chronicle e-Edition will have completely different local, state and national stories than The Spokesman-Review, with a focus on breaking news — including a full page of completely different comics from the morning paper, as well as new puzzles that can be worked directly on your mobile phone, tablet or computer. There also will be a look at daily history as told through pages from The Chronicle’s archives. THE CHRONICLE’S RETURN IS DUE IN PART TO THE GENEROSITY OF ...
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