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For many a puzzler, the insatiable need for crosswords can spiral into an addiction. Like any nasty habit, crosswording starts as a leisure activity and spawns into an all-consuming compulsion, driving its victims to steal crosswords from waiting room magazines, to desperately horde their goods for private use and to deny any need of help.
The satisfaction that completing a crossword provides makes this at once an appealing activity and also a deadly one. The perfect X-word may, in fact, may seem impossible at first, but in the end the solver should triumph and think: Oh, how clever I am! Is it any surprise then, that this self-indulgent assurance of one's own acumen is a favorite pastime among members of the Columbia community? I should think not.
By New Year's, the level of my crossword consumption had surpassed satisfaction and reached disgust. For 2008, I resolved to cut-down on crosswords. I was nervous, but as any crossword addict would know, a challenge is only an occasion to harness our signature mental dexterity and cerebral savvy. In past weeks, I have found new ways to utilize the time I had once devoted to my addiction. I've come a long way; I visit museums, I catch up with old friends—I even began performing community service!


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