A long time ago, the man who hired me to work at this newspaper gave me a sage bit of advice.
"Never mess around with the comics or puzzles."
The truth is he didn't use the word 'mess.' I've sanitized it a bit, the word that is, not the message.
I think back at that bit of advice every time we tinker with the content of the print edition.
If you haven't noticed, we recently rolled out a fairly distinctive new redesign.
I have talked to scores of readers who wanted to weigh in on the change.
A couple of themes have developed. Many readers - especially young ones - like the design. They think it's better organized and a quicker read, something they need what with the manic pace we all live our lives in this technology turbo-charged world of information we swim in these days.
Our older, loyal, longtime readers have been pretty consistent in thinking that the type is too light and too difficult to read.
That is not, however, the item that has drawn the most scorn in our readers' reviews our our new look.
I took great care to note that we "saved" all of our regular features, including our popular comics and all our puzzles.
There are very few readers of the newspaper who are as devoted and loyal as those wordsmiths who every day - and Sunday - cross wits with our Crossword Puzzle.
For the last two Sundays, we have let them down.
Not because we didn't include the Sunday Crossword. It's been right there. But the answer to the previous week's puzzle has been nowhere to be found.
Readers let me know it - loud and often. They needed that answer like I need coffee in the morning.
I am happy to announce that we have retrieved the errant answer and it appears on P. 38 of today's print edition.
And we will anchor it starting this Sunday so that those readers who are so inclined are not left scratching their head wondering where the answers are.
What's a four-letter word for editor?
Uh, never mind.
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