clipped from: www.nytimes.com IT is hard to believe that Sam Szurek, 63, a copywriter from the Upper West Side who consumes two to three crossword puzzles each weekday and up to five with his wife on Sundays, didn’t know that The Atlantic Monthly was dropping its legendary brain-buster, The Puzzler. All the clues were there.
Mr. Szurek’s other favorite puzzle, the one in The New York Sun, gasped its last breath on the Internet last year (as did the rest of the newspaper). And rumors of The Puzzler’s demise had been floating around puzzle blogs all week.