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34 puzzles by Jacob Stulberg
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Jacob Stulberg
Puzzles constructed by Jacob Stulberg by year
Mon 6/21/2021
ADDUPSCAMSTEW
MARTAHERATAME
BREADINCHEXIT
LIGHTERTHANAIR
ENSHATTAD
GASIRMACRY
HOLIERTHANTHOU
BEAUICEHELM
LARGERTHANLIFE
YDSLAZYEON
ILLJAYLAY
ITSALLRELATIVE
JAILIOUSLOBES
OGLEEDITTORRE
BOLTDENSOKAYS
Sun 3/14/2021 THEY ALL LAUGHED
MCSSAMBALEICAWORM
CHEALARMANNUMFIXUP
GRAFFITIPROOFBUILDING
ROSIESOLOISSUED
AMORCELSOCELOIRT
WANTSTHREEBLADERAZOR
OHISEEARALENEMY
ASPDECSORRYBISTRO
SPELLCHECKERHENCE
CINDERRAIDLORDEJIB
ACESELUDEFORGEMONA
PERTTOPSKLEETOOBAD
RHETTSNOWBOARDING
SPEEDSSTIESVIANEE
SPUDSWAIFBALLOT
AUTOMATICREDIALBREWS
GNUUSERSSUCHTREO
PERONIMEALCIVIL
ALJAFFEEOFMADMAGAZINE
LOOTSTSARSAARONEEL
EBBSSTRATMSDOSWRY
Tue 8/4/2020
JOISTBEBOPPBJ
APNEAALONEHOE
PETESDRAGONONE
ENOTRONCATER
BEANCAIRO
CHRISTSCOLLEGE
YAHOOOLESEAM
TRIFORSAKENGO
EDNAWIEPRIED
GODSLITTLEACRE
CHESSWOES
THEDATERIMAD
CARHEAVENSGATE
BROARNAZTALON
YESGRADESLEPT
Mon 2/24/2020
SHODSICKOBOA
LEVIAMAINRUMP
IRANVERNEARES
POLICEDOGHINGE
NAMBARISTAS
MONGRELLOCI
UBOATEFFSNASH
SOILAGORAGLUE
SERFSAGEUTTER
ROILDOSHOTS
FACEOFFSWEE
AWASHOPENSFIRE
NARCCRATELOOM
TIVOACTORATOM
ATETEENSGAMY
Wed 1/2/2019
PALLMUFFAGE
IDEASESAIBRAG
SHARKMARGARITA
MONDALETRADED
OCTOSCARII
OBITRUENAIF
LATENTEKELISA
GREEKAASBERET
BENEWCSMOSSES
TATAEEEEAST
TSARDOMROE
COHEIRDOGBERT
CHERRYPIEPEACH
TIESOHNOADMAN
VOLFINNESSO
Mon 10/8/2018
ELBOWFROMTWIT
BEENERAVERITA
BATTERYTERMINAL
SHAHEISNERELK
ERINTACIT
GOLDENGATECOCO
IWILLSOASTO
GEMAIRPORTLPS
PRYNNEADELE
TCBYCANNERYROW
ILIEDOPEN
PEZILLINIAMPS
TAKINGABACKSEAT
OVIDBRIMATARI
PETSTASETYLER
Mon 9/10/2018
IDTAGABSRASTA
FORCEMEWEATON
FREETRADEFRONT
YAKBOSSESPOSH
BUDSTHEDIE
CHEESEDEADCALM
COMFYTONGUES
SOBENAMESLIFE
ALROKERSEDAN
BURLIVESSPREAD
INKGASPLAY
AWEDSAVIORLEO
NODUHBILGEPUMP
CRONEONEMERIT
ANNEXWEDEWERS
Sun 8/19/2018 LET'S CHANGE THE SUBJECT
ASTERIRATESLUNGCBS
SHONELOMAXTOSEAALA
HOWTHEYWONTHEWESTJOB
EREALASGROPEDEMOTE
STRESSALARMBAYLOR
THATDOESNOTAMUSEUS
PADYAKMILOEST
ARPGORYFEWNOVEL
NOONEHASRATEDTHISFILM
DFLATSPITSAWAECVAT
HALTSFALLRECSADOBO
ONOISOKAISERSPORTS
WEINCLUDEDNOBATTERIES
AKIRAYENVOLEESA
GNPCANESAGAST
PEOPLEMADEMISTAKES
INNEEDILOSTRAPPER
GOUDALATESTIRISAPE
PEPPASSIVERESISTANCE
ESLAMATOYIELDEXTOL
NEETETONSALESRESTS
Tue 5/1/2018
HEFTSDTSOASIS
ALLOTIOUBLINI
SLAVENUEVOLEON
HISREARLEAGUE
SHANGRILANETS
LISASODA
CPASDATAPASTA
AIMLESSTREETOP
REPELACHETROT
SOMETONI
PAIDRIVERBANK
OFNOTEILYAGNU
ROADBLOCKMITER
TONGAPHIALIEN
STEERTENSLEDS
Fri 12/15/2017
ATANANGLEASSERT
TACOSALADDEALER
LETITPASSOEUVRE
ISAACSMGMLION
REVERSIRISEROD
AKAALERTRATS
METABOLICRATE
SEXANDVIOLENCE
ENTREPRENEURS
KARLHIRESRIO
ERADEFYHEAVENS
BANQUETCALLED
ABOUNDMODELSHIP
BLUINGARECAPALM
SETTEELASTNAMES
Thu 10/26/2017
HASOAFSGROWUP
ORCFRATMARINA
FDAFORECHESTS
FORTSUMRSIDES
AREASANTADONE
STEMASSAMA
NEWTOMOPEEBB
ARIESTISTITLE
SNLCRUXASHEN
ELGARTARTS
ASIASUITEUNTO
STAMPMTEREBUS
TIMBOWPIKECTA
INLINEEROSTSK
RELAYSLEFTVIA
Wed 9/27/2017
WATTFLAPSSTAN
ELOISERGEWACO
LOWETOTALEXAM
TUNDRAAFLCIO
CYPRESSHILL
HAREMMAAGUILE
ERISBORNEPNIN
ACEMATADORIED
THREERINGCIRCUS
TRIOREDO
ANCUNIONKER
DNAEMANUELSOW
EDGERLDSASSAI
GRIFTLIETWERP
SENSEYESHESSE
Sun 6/25/2017 CROPPED
SPENTMICANARCOVATE
POLARACLUOVERNIGEL
RIFLEROOTPONESLUNK
ASIANLONGHORNEDBELE
YENCEOSOSOILSA
CHANTRABBITTNORA
FOURCRERSKLIDOSCOPIC
ATSEADELLMOORAVAST
SHEATHKYOTOBALKS
TERMASKFORTBALL
SRSNATIONALARCIEPCS
ESSEXDONATECARE
DETOXLEANNSTONED
INEPTAAREMIDIORATE
SYMPTMTLOGYCOSMORMER
CAPOUNCTIONNOOIL
NAVESKISPOTTSA
VEGETABLESHORTENING
AMONGILYASAKEAIDAN
GOTTIMEETAMENSCARE
OBESEESSENUDEYELLS
Wed 5/31/2017
FADCARPSIAM
IPOSLIEUTHINE
VENTOMARHEIGL
EXTORTLEGALIST
TOESMELTITS
TRALALADISCI
AOKPIKEMOOING
IBETBEBOPTIER
LETSBEBASSIRA
HOYLETERRIFY
APEPERCHTOI
LABRADORCAVIAR
TRAITDEMOEIRE
AMISHEDENDILL
RATESOLEJOY
Thu 5/18/2017
OPTSBALESMUG
FOREAXISAWARE
FLIPRENTCONAN
COFTHESEACOUNT
BEAUXTOENAIL
SACMANNERSLAY
ALTAMOEEST
PLAYCWHYCWIRE
ERAREPONES
NAPUNTUNEDSNL
ATLANTANOVAE
SKEINNOSPRINGC
SIDLEDATAREAM
ANGERETALUSDA
USEDMSGSSTEP
Fri 3/17/2017
HAHARAMPSGAME
ETASATARIAMIS
LTRSMADETOLAST
LEDSILLYVITAE
ONTHESLYJULEPS
DOINCOMEUP
BASESALARYERRS
ANTEMPTYFOR
MCALLISTERSOPS
ERIERAPTOR
ASBESTOSPARTII
SHOSAPPYLABAN
KEANTRIOSONATA
MEREAANDPGLEN
ETDSSHEAFELSE
Tue 2/28/2017
JEANCHILIWHEY
AXLETONALHALE
VASTABBIEOWNS
AMONGBANDBAIM
ERREDURSINE
BORGIASEDITION
ONHANDAMIGA
BOOTINDIANADA
INCASBODIES
LATVIANALLURES
ASWELLSLEEP
SPAELVESOGDEN
TINAEATATURGE
ERGOFLICKYOGA
DESKTENETSPOT
Thu 1/19/2017
SHOCKSSMUTTY
TOUPEESTEATREE
ARTIESTOXTAILS
RRRPESPTTEL
DIETAEROSPOPE
OFASPITANOT
MICHAELHOPPERS
CHECKEREDPAST
THECOMETS
VCRAHBOSMOP
IHOPSABRATOLL
CAMTSYNPIDA
ALAMODEICETRAY
RENAMESNORIEGA
STOPBYGUSSET
Fri 1/6/2017
OVERTHEMOONDSL
CAMERAREADYCEO
TIPSONESHATCAV
ANIONSSUMJOSE
NERDANYALUMNI
TREPROAEOLIAN
DIPSOSWICKS
AMESILLEASE
CRYPTLEEANN
AMPLIFYETDTSK
SCROLLSPFSHUE
THEYALTIMPEDE
OATAGEOFREASON
FITBOWLASTRIKE
FRYUNDERTHESUN
POW Thu 12/15/2016
DEBUTTSKGRAF
ELIZAUPICREDO
FLLINGFLTRAGES
CELSOTSPOPUPS
ENYAFSHIONPLTE
MARSWEAR
PREENSOLEGUM
GRANDFTHERCLUSE
ASSJIMSASYET
YOWIEABS
PARFITGLSSOMAR
ARISTAPAYSATE
GODOTFLLLLLLLL
EMERYINDTRYST
DARTRDSSKATE
Tue 11/29/2016
PEGSATOPCOEDS
ALOEDOVEERNIE
BINDORANGEZEST
SHEAFCLIOORCA
TURKISHTARGOT
ASPREDEYE
NASHAMANMATES
THEJOYOFCOOKING
HANOISTENTCOT
DELTASCEL
ARFSRIDELIGHT
LOOKECRUYALIE
CORNRELISHBONN
OFTENALTOLODE
ASHESWESTEMIT
POW Mon 10/3/2016
OGLESCSIWRUNG
FLOATROOEASYA
FANTAACTINGOUT
ERGNYGIANTS
DESADEASTOFOX
TROWELRVPARK
JEANALAELLIE
COMBOSUPROLOS
ADMINTBSTWIN
PIECEDREDHEN
TEDSUZIHEDGED
SHOWCASEDWI
STATESEALDROOP
PODIAINSGAWKS
AWARDGTOEENSY
Mon 7/18/2016
COPCARSTEWPAN
ORIOLECOURAGE
SEADOGHAYRIDES
TONEATONONSET
OHSTOPMPG
CAPOTEEHEEORS
ODESSADOWDPET
MODELHIPALEVE
IRAODEAEYEDUP
CELPUMMELACES
VEEOVERDO
BASEDKNAVELCD
APPROVEDENDURE
ROADWAYNEWMAN
SPRINTSSWINGS
POW Wed 5/4/2016
LISZTANITASAN
INTOOLONGFELLOW
STIRSINFILTRATE
PREACHSOFIARRS
SOSAOUTCLIME
LIFERKITBAG
TAMEORUEASELS
PELEISOMEROLLA
BATTENIOSONLY
ARARATDRAIN
SMOREMUSEALT
ITOTRACIMUSTER
MANZANILLAPOLIO
FITZGERALDOFALL
NEZTENSENASAL
POW Fri 2/19/2016
FIATACAICOLA
ENNISHOLDOVAL
MONTEVERDIKEEL
BRANOMDEGUERRE
OBLADISRISATA
TIERODSSTOUTER
TENFOURTESS
OFFENBACH
EMILSYLLABI
DAWDLESECONOMY
IDACLUEONTIME
BENEDICTXVILEA
LITESCHOENBERG
ERIKHOAXGORSE
SANSARNOYSER
POW Wed 12/9/2015
WHIZGNAWALEC
EASEREDOABATE
EHUDBARAKSEDAN
PAPOVUMUPTILT
PILEDTIEDIE
CHOCOLATEECLAIR
NOSERASTA
NEEDSJAMSPEAR
ALIASEXPO
BIRMINGHAMBLITZ
ENODTSROUST
AFLCIOVASTVEE
MULANLIGHTNING
USINGOBOEASIA
PENSBENDMADD
Tue 9/8/2015
MAOCMIIASPCA
ANSASSNSATIRE
SWAMPGASARENAS
CAMPGROUNDPUP
RAGUMEALPGA
NEWSTOPGAP
SIKHVASTPRIMO
ONEAASKEWIRES
UTENNHIGHELSE
TOPGEARGYM
HOGSPASEARP
DOAPGTHIRTEEN
WEIGHTLIPGLOSS
VENUESERSEICE
APGAROTOSLIC
POW Wed 5/20/2015
SACSPEALMADAM
HELPRATEAROSE
ORALAREARIGHT
VISAVISAVISA
EASTERMESHJAB
SLYRIGLATINO
ABELABELABEL
FLAWAGOLEWD
RIDERIDERIDE
ERASERENOPSA
TAMBAASSNORTS
PIESPIESPIES
RAZORPURRTONE
EXISTEMITIRON
DEPTHNESSCYST
Sun 5/10/2015 LITERARY CIRCLES
TKTOVUMVACROPEWAY
UNHNANODENYATEDIRT
LEECUCAMONGAGOGGLED
ILLTELLOFTENLIL
PLOYTEARFULGREENING
CPAANTROLLINGGAIT
GRUELINGMASTIFFMNO
RESOLDEWESALIENCES
ACTALBRIGHTENDEAR
BUTCHEREDYAOOAR
RRRBROKENRIBTLC
EOSWINBRANCHOFF
BECOMENATIONALSLR
PRISCILLACTNNORWAY
IONDIAGRAMEGGWHITE
LIFEISSWEETPRONEL
ELLIOTTSMAYISEEILLS
ODDDONUTSPANIEL
REWEAVEOVERAGAINAAA
EXERTEDRENTSPCAMSN
CORSETSADDTESTSET

Jill Denny notes:

First question: did you know the poem? I didn't. William Carlos Williams is familiar to me — his short story "The Girl With The Pimply Face" contains one of my favorite lines* — but I didn't know this poem.

Second question: does it matter? Not as much as I would have thought. Although familiarity would have made the solving experience easier (and the aha moment more crystalline), discovering the poem word by word was a charming process in its own right. Even if the puzzle contained a unknown poem from a unknown poet, I probably still would have enjoyed the puzzle. It's just fun to see a poem emerge from a grid, like happening upon a particularly beautiful garden during a walk.

I loved one of Jacob's previous puzzles for similar reasons. Crosswords as a vehicle for art, whether visual, musical, or literary — right up my alley. Jeremy Newton's "Ode to Joy" puzzle from 2011 was another beautiful example of this idea. Either I am reminded of something beautiful or I learn something new. Win-win.

*"Boy, she was tough and no kidding but I fell for her immediately. There was that hard, straight thing about her that in itself gives an impression of excellence."

Thu 4/9/2015
CHICHOPESTAGE
LANELEPERAHMED
ETALLATTETRIMS
ACNEODIELION
THEBOYFCRIEDWOLF
RADORALAAA
SPRITBLUEPENCIL
WHETGUESSSEINS
EASYTARGETHEDGE
ESEOMNISAD
TELLMESOMETHINGT
LETSNOSENAIR
NUEVOCAUSEEDNA
INREMERREDSISI
BASESLYNXSAUL

Jill Denny notes:

Wait. Which Stooge is missing here? The Marx Brothers, the Three Stooges, Abbott & Costello, and Laurel & Hardy are interchangeable in my world. On a good day, I can distinguish between Groucho Marx (cigar, caterpillar brows) and the Three Stooges (untrammeled idiocy), but beyond that, I'm lost. To me, "Who's On First" is a Rainman reference. V-E-R-N, Vern! Also, how is that there are more than three stooges in the Three Stooges?

While not the ideal audience for Mr. Stulberg's puzzle, I can certainly appreciate its merits.

  • First, the theme is RAD, even though the joke is only vaguely familiar to me. Placing the bases as if on a baseball diamond would have taken it to the next level, though that construction would have been a bear.
  • Second, it's clued to a difficult level, giving the brain an excellent workout. Ambiguity and misdirection abound, and I ERRED frequently. How many possible answers exist for 1a. [In]? Or for 10d. [Peg]? My brain was sweating by the end.
  • Third, it includes LYNX, which is my back-up spirit animal (after shark). Rowr.
POW Wed 3/25/2015
ATOASTDELAWARE
NUDGEDENAMORED
OPERASESTEEMED
IDESRUINOVA
ECOEENPRES
AHAENDBAY
SUVNEILEENSY
ALATONGANSHOE
UNPENASIMORB
TEDTAIWEB
SAGAPCTCRS
TVACLAWCAST
AIRPLANETHRESH
RADIATORREDNO2
KNEEDEEPIDIDSO

Jill Denny notes:

What a beautiful theme! I love revisiting a seminal work of art, especially one with a controversial past. Duchamp's own brothers requested that he withdraw his painting from its debut exhibition in Paris, arguing that it was disrespectful to depict the nude form so mechanistically, engaged in such a humdrum activity as walking down a staircase. The Cubists felt it was not Cubist enough. And no one liked the title, which was seen as not sufficiently literary.

Duchamp's painting

With a twenty-first century gaze, it's difficult to imagine why anyone would have ever considered this 1912 work shocking or even surprising. So here's my billion-dollar idea: glasses that allow one to see a work of art as it would have been seen at its debut, so that its groundbreakingness can be appreciated anew. Put on the glasses, and you temporarily have the cognitive history and experience of a Parisian in 1912, so that when you look at Duchamp (or Manet or Picasso or Giotto), you feel the "what IS this?" frisson, accompanied by delight or repugnance or confusion. The Apple version is the iEye (dibs on the trademark).

Right, back to the puzzle! The staircase architecture and circled letters tightly constrain the grid, necessitating several tricky little cul-de-sacs. I liked the inclusion of ARMORY SHOW and AVANT-GARDE, as well as the H2O/RED NO. 2 crossing. The southwest corner was a quagmire for me, with ambiguous cluing and the trickiest of the cul-de-sacs. Those are minor nits to pick, though. The theme just delighted me thoroughly.

Thu 1/8/2015
IMREMRTOADCAW
SOARFIANCEADO
LIVINGPPERSROW
ARETEWOKCHORE
SANREMOVEILED
ERABLANC
COMAHAROLDCCER
ARCTAHINISILL
REGGERATEDPDFS
INITSLUI
KARATSCYCLOPS
EXAMSEEOLEVEL
SISHALFMEASURE
HOPOYSTERULEE
AMYWRESTSPEST
Wed 11/19/2014
RAWHOISTWASTE
ALAOCCURIDIOM
MEXTHERESNOTWO
ERECTEMIGRANT
NORAEPHRONERSE
LARAREV
THAIIMPISLES
NONPRESCRIPTION
TITHESEWPESO
ASKFIFE
DUELNOMINATION
OKLAHOMATEMPO
WAYSABOUTITPET
ESSENDROVEERE
LEERSOATERLAD
Wed 12/25/2013
CHADSMURKADDS
HULOTASIAFEAT
IRENENUMBOMNI
STEELIERUPROAR
ELLPEKOE
OWLALPMISSTEP
FEARDUMBEAUDE
FIVEGOLDENRINGS
TRACESSRSDIET
OSSETIASYSSRO
SACRANYC
SHASTALACROSSE
NORIRUINIRATE
OHNOUSEDANGEL
BOONSONYCYSTS
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