Fred Basset by Alex Graham for February 01, 2010

I’m not much good at crosswords either. Seems jigsaw puzzles are my go. Completed one in about 4 hours once and was so proud because on the box it said 6-12 MONTHS!

I’ll bet Fred can do the puzzle himself in about 10 minutes, not to take take away anything from his brilliant master.

I finish the New York Times crossword in pen between New Haven and Penn Central. Then I leap tall buildings in a single bound. Have you seen my meds?

Lew, I can only imagine. I’m still proud of myself when I can complete the crossword in the in-flight magazine.

Yesterday my seatmate was amazed at how I did it on a one-hour flight. Didn’t have the heart to tell him I’d already completed about 75% of it on an earler flight, so I was just filling in the blanks for most of it!

My paper starts out really easy on Monday, as a confidence builder I guess…it’s a bit harder on Tuesday, and by Saturday, one has lost all the confidence gained when completing Monday’s xword. Sunday’s is usually a NY times reprint, and depending on the author, one has to know the capitals of Togo and Tonga and what birds migrate to Madagascar in autumn.

When I have time for puzzles I prefer the word search kind.

Are you any better, Fred? Did you take lessons from Odie?

BlackKnight15 - Congratulations!!!!!!!

It only took me 2 days to finish a puzzle that said 3-5 years!

I think Fred just really has to go bad and needs the paper, NOW!!!

6 years and up. I can usually do them in 2 years or less.

If Odie can do a sudoku in 2 panels, Fred should be able to do a xword in one.

I hope Fred’s master will not be like Jon to figure out on the crossword newspaper.

Never mind we can’t all be good at crossword Fred. xxx