Saturday, 12/4/10

NYT 4:14 ... LAT 2:33 ... CS 2:01 ... ND 7:32 ... Acrostic 6:25

Inspired by Trip's monthly rundowns, discussion of my solving habits on other blogs, and the likelihood that I'll get a traffic spike this Tuesday (playin' it coy!) and want to have some content here, I decided to count how many puzzles I solved this week (11/28-12/4). I wasn't working much, so I spent more time than usual at home doing crosswords. (Saturday I'll be busy and not solving, so I can count now, on Friday night.) So:

42 - current puzzles with times posted here
82 - NYT from 1996
18 - WSJ from 2003-4
14 - LAT from 2007
21 - CS from 1997 [Downs only. I've found this a fun way to solve these puzzles in Across Lite (usually while watching Conan) - drag the Across/Down divider bar all the way up, and voila, it's Downs only. Every third puzzle or so, I need some help from "Check All" or Acrosses to finish.]
14 - in books that I'm trying to move from the "half done" shelf to the "done" shelf: Pop Culture Crosswords (done!), 10-Minute Crosswords, and Baseball Crosswords
9 - variety cryptics: 2 by Kegler, 2 by Hex, 5 by Maltby

...for a total of... holy crap, I swear I didn't rig this... exactly 200 in six days. Yeah, my goal is to do all the crosswords. All of them! (Well, not the ones edited by Timothy Parker.)