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In Short

The Hurt Locker

Amara’s Law

Diversion

The Sylvester–Gallai Theorem

Verdict

The Moral Superiority Illusion

Misc

The Tennis Racket Theorem

Long Distance

Out of Joint

A Wide Net

Quinary

Science Marches On

Supervision

Ernst’s Paradox

Blow by Blow

Tableau

Weather and Art

Tête-à-Tête

Complaint

Counterpoint

Perspective

Hobo Ethics

The Fene Cellist

Unquote

Math Notes

In a Word

The Blast Shadow

The Gingerbread Game

Centers of Attraction

The B List

Limerick

Elemental Words

A Pressing Appointment

The Tritone Paradox

Overview

The Five Regiments

Interloper

Post Holes

Living Memory

Offensive Escargot

Sob Story

Fences

“An Autograph Inside a Tree”

Another Skeleton Pair

Wiggle Stereoscopy

Drive-Thru

Presentation

Essentials

Unpaired Words

Summing Up

Fair Enough

Safety First

Of Thee I Sing

Shell Attack

Around the Block

Young and Old

Small World

Unquote

Gunplay

Wildlife

64 Coins

Singmaster’s Conjecture

The Rilke Cryptogram

Progress

In a Word

Reckoning

A Salt Hygrometer

Black and White

“Memorumdrums”

Stargazing

Head Count

“Immune”

Good Works

Parfit’s Hitchhiker

The Tonnetz

Sea Battle

Math Notes

Limerick

A Show of Hands

Brainstorm

The Theory of Deadly Initials

Misc

Noted

Eating Out

Perspective

Suspense

The Seven-Dice Shuffle

“Humility”

A Topology Puzzle

Unquote

Prayer Vigil

Literary

Groundwork

Descent

Accommodation

The Perko Pair

A Curious Letter

Concise

Forefather

Afoot

One World

Help Wanted

Ha!

Mouthful

Paper Route

The Social Whirl

Before and After

Long Distance

The Watercolor Illusion

“A Dimensional Howler”

Riding Along

Milestones

New Leaves

Dark Matter

The Hattusa Green Stone

Chestnut

Snunkoople

Twist

Ahead of Schedule

Unquote

“Words Without Song”

The Embracing Skeletons of Alepotrypa

Penmanship

The Silver Rule

In a Word

Seniority

“To a Lost Sweetheart”

A Union Cipher

Conclusions

The Last Straw

Black and White

Progress

The Brazil Nut Effect

Couplet

Commitment

Training

Census Trouble

Providence

Noted

Conway’s 99-Graph Problem

A Little Help

Upstream Contamination

Track Record

Self-Assessment

Rebus

Ah

Juggling

“The Time-Traveling Hipster”

Update

The Stepping Feet Illusion

An Unsolved Cipher

Misc

Elegy

Taking Stock

Less Art

Interloper

Math Notes

Unquote

Double Duty

Epithet

Borrowed Time

In a Word

Twilight

Hidato

Ready to Hand

Intermission

Time Check

Ghost Tint

Inksmanship

Set Theory

The Long View

Losing Chess

Read It Aloud

The Oppel–Kundt Illusion

The Camel Girl

Down and Up

The Koffka Ring

Memory Span

Family Ties

Limerick

Figures of Speech

Perspective

Overtime

Private Matters

Internal Affairs

The Cylob Cryptogram

Unquote

In a Word

Happy Returns

Infinite Digest

Testimonial

A Folded Story

Fair Enough

Amity

Roman Surprise

The Numerosity Adaptation Effect

Seasonal Characters

Hush-Hush

Selflessness

The Clockwise Ant

A Near Thing

Desperate Measures

Weather Report

Complex Harmony

Waste Not, Want Not

Math Notes

A Second Act

The Petrie Multiplier

Circulation

Square Diamonds

The Tullock Paradox

Fanciful Creatures

A Gettysburg Puzzle

The Number Checks Puzzle

The Disk Covering Problem

Unquote

Quite a Dedication

Life During Wartime

Charged Words

Interest Group

Square Deal

He and She

The Lovers’ Knot

A Few Specific Words

Penetration

Paperwork

Charlie’s Birthday

Prospects

“An Egg Sent Through the Post”

The Pulfrich Effect

The Devil’s Golf Course

Neck Deep

Sliding Dominoes

Guardrails

Inspiration

Daring

Words and Numbers

Hue and Cry

Overboard

Last Words

Observation

“The Impossible Fact”

The Top Hat Illusion

“The Worst of All Puns”

Cameo

Devotion

Portrait

Down Under

Urban Sprawl

Shapes of Things

Unquote

Stained Glass

The Art of Living

In a Word

Tops

The Erdős–Faber–Lovász Conjecture

Noted

Second Coming

Casualties

The Beautiful City

Decalogue

Swivel Engineering

Amen

Long Story

Redux

Insight

Succinct

Viewpoints

Family Matters

Sibling Rivalry

Illumination

To the Life

Busywork

Unquote

Set Piece

Arrears

Hot Woe!

“The Prison Poet’s Farewell”

Toil and Trouble

“Chess of the Future”

Workaround

In a Word

A Late Edit

Efficiency

Conjunction

First Steps

Company

A Dudeney Square

Dead Center

Vivid

Sum of Squares

Credential Envy

Uh-Oh

Body Heat

A Roman New Year

Succinct

Poser

Time Out of Joint

“The Universe and the Philosopher”

Performance Review

Proof Without Words

Words and Numbers

Burattini’s Dragon

Falling Currency

Modern Times

Unquote

Heesch’s Problem

Memories

Summing Up

Black and White

Diplomacy

Solo

One Solution

The Willoughby Postdiction

“WIPEOUT!”

Dymaxion Sleep

Mixed Doubles

In a Word

“History Talks Too Little About Animals”

Misc

Register

Death Do Us Part

Nonary

Round and Round

The High Life

Stellate Thaumaturgy

Exemplary

Oh

Variant

Second Thoughts

Topsy Turvy

The 21-Card Trick

A Harrowing Puzzle

Unquote

One Last Christmas Challenge

An Unbounded Stomach

Breathless

Standards

Round Trip

Homage à Fromage

Last Words

All in the Family

A Chess Maze

Plunges in Dumbness

Another Christmas Quiz

Seeing Double

Self-Seeking

Ah

Food for Thought

In a Word

Jigsy

Schematic

Cut Spelling

Inspiration

The Asahi Illusion

“A Waste of Time”

Another Christmas Quiz

Onlooker

Dividing Line

Gang Aft Agley

Tableau

Saving Santa

Endorsement

Unquote

100 Voices

Extra Large

Progress

Math Notes

Same Thing

Arithmetic

The Roving Wazir

Okay Then

Upgrade

Finale

Observation

An Awkward Pause

Queries

Geomagic

Points of Pride

Query

“Hallelujah!”

Impostor

Nobility

Dead Letters

Roundabout

Home Again

All the Way Down

Briefly

Misc

In a Word

“His Mother-in-Law”

Noted

Close Enough

Midy’s Theorem

Lament

Two Solutions

Constitution

Suggestion

Overspecialized Words

Notice

First Impressions

Black and White

Great Expectations

Personae

Unquote

“The New Regime”

Glorious Summer

Character Study

Trompe-l’œil

Relative

Details

Full House

A Late Valentine?

Making Trouble

First Things

A Self-Intersecting Reflexicon

Noted

Cortège

The Sands of Time

Fervency

Summing Up

Mother Ross

The Bright Side

A Prickly Puzzle

Near Things

Purple Haze

Syllabus

Ahem

A Kitchen Timer

The Paradox of Trust

Deal

Road Show

In a Word

“Jealousy Is as Blind as Love”

“A Happy Retort”

Square Deal

Two Meetings

Up and Down

Black and White

Never Mind

Unquote

An Upper Stove

“Collective Farm”

An NSA Puzzle

In Brief

Velato

Tight Quarters

Lahaina Noon

“The Difficult Case of Wine”

A Perpetual Motion Device

“Narrow Escape of a Mouse”

Education

Number Theory

Watch Your Step

Late Word

Piecework

“A Reading in Unlove”

Five-Sided Story

Double or Nothing

A Grim Friday

Reflections

“Man and Bird”

In a Word

Betrothed Numbers

Constraint

Emergency