Irish Miss?

by George Barany and Brent Hartzell

This "mid-week level" puzzle was released in early February 2013, and reflected on some sports-related news (with larger implications) that broke in mid-January. After completing the puzzle (spoiler), you may find this to make for fascinating reading.

Click here to view or download the puzzle in PDF format; here to download it as a puz file; here to download it as an ipuz file [requires the free Puzzazz app to solve]; here to solve the puzzle interactively (thanks to Jim Horne); here for the solution. We thank Martin Herbach and Jed Fisher for test-solving.

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More puzzles here (all), here (current events), here (sports), and here (tributes).

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