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wsj OP t1_j0hkimu wrote

Reply to comment by Dirty_Old_Town in I’m Mike Shenk, Crossword Editor for the Wall Street Journal. AMA. by wsj

I've noticed that too, but it is just coincidence. I don't collaborate with other editors to plant common words. (Though maybe there's a super-meta contest idea in that...)

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Hungsolong t1_j0on00f wrote

My local newspaper prints last weeks NYT and LAT crosswords every Sunday. We always do both and there is almost always one obscure word in common or sometimes reversed ( the clue in one is the answer is to the clue on the other). I really don’t believe that it is coincidence.

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