![]() “Merl’s Word-O-Rama” ran on the back page of the Chronicle Magazine through 2013. Favorite recurring themes were “Movies That Shouldn’t Be Shown Together” and “Pun Clearance.” Asked by the online journal “Word Buff” to recall some favorites, he mentioned one called “Gridlock,” in which popular car models are locked together in a traffic jam, and a two-part mystery puzzle called “Kindergarten Crime Spree.” His motto was “Twisted but Fair,” and he had 20 notebooks filled with puzzle ideas at any given time. “He saw the world as a hurricane of words and tried all those things out in puzzles,” said Gray.
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