Mike Hobin author page
2 puzzles by Mike Hobin
with Editor comments
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Mike Hobin is a real-estate agent in Chicago. This is his second crossword for The Times — both Sundays.
His starting point for the theme was 29-Across, which he stumbled upon by accident. Finding other examples took weeks of trial and error. Mike's favorite is 46-Across, which was the last one he got. "I woke up one morning with it stuck in my head."
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Mike Hobin is a real estate agent and property developer in Chicago. While at home during the pandemic, he watched the 2006 documentary "Wordplay," about crosswords, and was inspired to try constructing one himself. Two years and two dozen submissions later, he's making his debut.
The seed of this puzzle was 116-Across. Then he thought of 24-Across … "and it really felt like I was on to something."