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On Sunday, in the sixth episode of its 20th (!) season, The Simpsons went crossword crazy in a cross-promotion with The New York Times and the Hartford Courant. The episode featured the voices of renowned crossword creators Merl Reagle (whose puzzles appear in the Courant and elsewhere) and Will Shortz, puzzle master of the Times. The crossword in Sunday's Times featured a special message "crucial to the episode" (though the episode was not crucial for completing the crossword), and the Courant published a Reagle crossword on Sunday called "Simply Simpsons," in which every question was Simpsons-themed.
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