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Jeffrey Krasnick didn’t consider himself an ultimate crossword puzzle solver. So when he took on the challenging fifth puzzle at the 2012 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (ACPT), he was surprised to learn he was among the first people to finish it.
“I’m like, ‘Why? I must’ve done something really wrong here … because there’s no way I finished that quickly,'” the Victoria resident told The Current.
But Krasnick, 60, hadn’t done anything wrong. On the contrary, he recorded one of the highest scores on what was one of the tournament’s most complicated puzzles — among
