Weekly xword - "Musical Soundalikes" and AV Club puzzle by Deb Amlen

[Benjamin Tausig]

Part of what makes my new book, "Crosswords from the Underground," special, is the insider information contained in the annotation that accompanies each crossword. Few puzzlemakers have ever revealed the secrets to construction offered here, not to mention the sordid tales of excess.

Consider the annotation to puzzle #25: "In the constructing community, there is much gnashing of teeth when crosswords are misrepresented in popular culture. For instance, in the episode of "Saved by the Bell" (featuring none other than Tiffani Thiessen) where Screech enters the district crossword competition and catches his opponent from Valley using an illegal reference resource, one sees upon pausing the tape that the grid of the final puzzle has an unchecked square at 16-Across. Thank god the show was canceled."

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Ben