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• In 1914, the first crossword puzzle was printed in a newspaper.
  The creator received $4000 down ... and $3000 across....
• The great god Ra whose shrine once covered acres Is filler now for crossword-puzzle makers.
• Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
  Egotist, n: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me. -- Ambrose Bierce...
• Writing programs needs genius to save the last order or the last millisecond.
  It is great fun, but it is a young man's game. You start it with great enthusiasm when you first start programming, but after ten years you get a bit bored with it, and then you turn to automatic-programming languages and use them because they enable you to get to the heart of the problem that you want to do, instead of having to concentrate on the mechanics of getting the program going as fast as you possibly can, which is really nothing more than doing a sort of crossword puzzle....
• Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
  -- Elbert Hubbard...
• Marge: [gasps] Oh, Homer, look! Look, a TV Guide owned by Jackie O.
  John: Oh, you should see the crossword puzzle. She thought that Mindy lived with "Mark....
• POLICE BEGIN CAMPAIGN TO RUN DOWN JAYWALKERS -- Real Newspaper Headline
• It's a very rare and precious Chinese puzzle box. You won't be able to open it, so put it down.
  -- Countess Scarlioni, CITY OF DEATH...