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Aptitude, Attitude, Creativity

• Summary: of course, being smart helps
• Although you can't change your parents, you can learn -- and be creative and flexible...
• "How many dendrites does this guy [Dan Feyer: multiple ACPT champion] have?" ~Merl Reagle
• "He [Dan Feyer] excelled at math as well as music, abilities that he thinks go together with crossword solving." ~NYT article 12/7/2011
• "[Republican Sen. Tom Coburn, of Oklahoma] showed exceptional emotional versatility, working a crossword puzzle during the hearing and then choking back a sob during a prosaic statement about partisanship..." ~Dana Milbank
• "An optimist is a man who starts a crossword puzzle with a fountain pen." ~Anonymous
• "Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen." ~Anonymous (often incorrectly attributed to Ambrose Bierce who died ~1914)
• "They say Confucius does his crossword with a pen" ~Tori Amos
• "She didn't strike me as a 'crossword in ink' kind of girl." ~Tom Clancy
• Bill Clinton was famous for completing the Times crossword in a few minutes, flawlessly and in ink while simultaneously arguing with political leaders on the phone.
• "I don’t smoke, I don’t drink coffee, and I don’t need to have a drink at the end of the day. What I do need is to solve the crossword, every day, in ink." ~Ken Burns
• Frank Sinatra letter to NYT crossword editor about using pen 9/19/1989
• songs: I Do My Crosswords in Pen by On Broken Wings 2003;
  Doing Thursdays in Ink by John Schnall 2008
• "I’m good at crossword puzzles, I’m not so good at people puzzles." ~Carrie, Sex and the City
• "We wanted to see the connection between being a good crossword solver and being great in your field." ~Christine O'Malley, Producer (WordPlay)
• "Mental flexibility is a great asset in solving crosswords. Let your mind wander." ~Will Shortz
• "People who do crossword puzzles just can't think outside the box." ~Anonymous

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