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December 2023 Interactive Crossword Puzzle

Try your hand at a sciency brainteaser.

Written byStella Zawistowski

| 1 min read

December crossword puzzle

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Stella Zawistowski
Stella Zawistowski is one of the fastest crossword solvers in America, with multiple top-ten finishes at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and a New York Times: Sunday personal record of 4 minutes, 33 seconds. She has constructed crosswords for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications.
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