Wordplay (2006): Best Crossword Puzzle

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I like this puzzle.
Well, it's not one of my funniest puzzles in the worid...
but I think if it's, um
I think it's fine for a Monday or a Tuesday.
A great puzzle is based on an original idea.
It takes that theme. It's fresh, it's novel, it's fun.
It carries the idea through to its limit, whatever that limit is.
Just one more note about projecting the presidential results...
before all the polls are closed.
For a while today, before any polls closed...
we thought the New York Times had been particularly flagrant.
Take a look at the Times crossword puzzle.
The clues is the same for numbers 39 and 43 across.
Thirty-nine across "Clinton. " Forty-three across "Elected. "
But surely the Times wouldn't go out on a limb like that.
No. The crossword editor is much too diabolical.
So rearrange a few words and the answer to 39 and 43 across is
"Bob Dole elected. "
In this, uh, election day '96 puzzle...
uh, to make it clever...
it was blank "elected. "
And blank is seven letters, and it could be "Clinton"or it could be "Bob Dole. "
And it turns out it can be both, because they figured out seven...
down-word answers...
where at each point, the corresponding letter fit the clue.
So in the first one, it could "B"or "C"...
and the second could be "O"or "L"...
the third one could be "B"or "I"...
the fourth one would be "D"or "N."
I mean, that's an amazing thing, you know, just to be able to think of that.
Half the time I do these things just to see what people are thinking about.
So I worked it and I made a copy and sent it to Dole...
after calling him and telling him we both won after all.

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