Michael Schlossberg is a doctor at St. Charles Medical Center, in Bend, Ore., specializing in internal medicine.
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Michael Schlossberg is an internist and self-described "history nerd" in Bend, Ore. "Most of what I read," he says, "is historical fiction or nonfiction."
This is Michael's 14th crossword for The Times, which he was inspired to construct after reading an article that mentioned 39-Across. His favorite answers here are the combined 113- and 115-Across, which are an all-time classic of their genre.
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Michael Schlossberg is an internist in Bend, Ore. This is his third Sunday crossword of the year.
Michael's antenna is always up for theme ideas — he struck upon this one after seeing the phrase at 113-Across in a news article. Though Michael is an avid gardener, he never brainstorms themes there. "It's my happy place," he says.
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Michael Schlossberg, of Bend, Ore., is a doctor specializing in internal medicine. This is his 11th crossword for the paper and his fifth Sunday.
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Michael Schlossberg is an internist in Bend, Ore., who's been making crosswords for The Times since 2020. He got the idea for this one after seeing 68-Across as a title at his local bookstore.
Although themeless puzzles are Mike's favorites to solve, he says he doesn't construct them "because I get decision paralysis — they're too much of a blank canvas. I need to have a theme set to build around."
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Michael Schlossberg is an internist in Bend, Ore., who's been making crosswords for The Times since 2020. He says he got the idea for this one while thinking about the books he read to his kids when they were little. He tried to get all the circles in the puzzle to line up, but that proved to be impossible.
Michael says his favorite part of constructing is converting a theme idea into a completed grid — "more fun and challenging than actual solving."
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D | A | D | A | C | A | R | P | E | T | S | H | A | I | L | E | D | ||||
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Michael Schlossberg is an internist in Bend, Ore. He's been making puzzles for The Times since 2020.
Eugene T. Maleska, the Times's crossword editor from 1977 to 1993, famously had 40 rejections from the old New York Herald Tribune before his first submission was accepted back in the day. Michael says he had 50 rejections of Sunday puzzles from us before he got a yes. That must set some sort of record for perseverance.
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P | E | R | I | L | P | A | N | D | E | R | S | E | A | N | C | E | ||||
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B | A | A | D | R | Y | E | R | E | L | L | E | N | ||||||||
A | P | L | U | S | E | G | A | D | S | S | U | C | K | L | E | |||||
T | R | E | P | I | D | I | S | L | A | M | G | O | L | E | M | |||||
C | R | I | M | E | A | N | D | P | U | N | I | S | H | M | E | N | T | |||
A | W | R | Y | R | O | C | C | O | A | S | K | M | E | P | E | T | S | |||
T | H | E | C | A | T | C | H | E | R | I | N | T | H | E | R | Y | E | |||
M | E | A | L | Y | K | O | R | M | A | B | I | T | R | O | T | |||||
S | E | R | E | N | E | M | E | G | A | N | P | E | O | N | S | |||||
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F | O | R | W | H | O | M | T | H | E | B | E | L | L | T | O | L | L | S | ||
A | L | O | H | A | P | O | S | T | I | T | W | H | E | A | T | E | N | |||
T | E | N | O | R | S | U | N | E | S | C | O | E | S | P | N | U | ||||
T | O | M | A | K | E | A | L | O | N | G | S | T | O | R | Y | S | H | O | R | T |
E | L | I | E | R | M | I | N | E | T | O | R | T | E | E | R | O | S | |||
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Michael Schlossberg is a doctor at St. Charles Medical Center, in Bend, Ore., specializing in internal medicine. He started constructing crosswords in 2018 after reading the series "How to Make a Crossword Puzzle" on The New York Times's website.
This is his sixth puzzle for the paper and his first Sunday. The idea for it came to him after he heard the answer at 121-Across in conversation and thought, I bet there's a literature-themed puzzle in there.
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S | O | N | I | A | I | M | P | S | T | A | G | |||
N | O | T | E | S | A | S | P | S | T | Y | ||||
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E | N | D | S | P | E | E | A | R | G | O | N | |||
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S | P | Y | I | F | S | I | P | O | M | A | P | |||
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E | R | E | E | Y | E | T | E | S | T | S | O | Y | ||
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