The nice thing about crossword puz… as an obsession, Phil tells Bill,… keep you away from other obsession… that might engage your attention a… benefit no one. For example

A rainy Sunday and Pastor Smith is in his pulpit bellowing to the congregation, “I hope you understand

It’s a small backyard I’ve watched for years from an upstairs window while chained to a computer. Whatever the weather

You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,

I turn on the news to see who won the game last night but first the scores from hot spots in the city. Two people are killed

It’s many miles from easy to the e… For some, the end is dawn. For ot… the nightfall of imbroglio because the end depends upon your ticket and every ticket’s punched one-way…

He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,

In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper

This brilliant winter morning find… waves of snow on every lawn and red graffiti dripping from the walls of Temple Mizpah

So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,

They’re starlets Hollywood has yet to discover, two nice young ladies who assemble sandwiches at the Subway Shop Monday through Friday at noon.

They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture

A moment ago, in a flicker of pique, with a wave of the hand, I dispersed them. Glorious birds,

The police have announced the arrest of an ecumenical fellow who in less than two weeks in the middle of the night set fir… to seven churches in St. Louis.