Information: - Merl Harry Reagle (January 5, 1950 August 22, 2015) was an American crossword constructor. For 30 years, he constructed a puzzle every Sunday for the "San Francisco Chronicle" (originally the "San Francisco Examiner"), which he syndicated to more than 50 Sunday newspapers, including the "Washington Post", the "Los Angeles Times", the "Philadelphia Inquirer", the "Seattle Times", "The Plain Dealer" (Cleveland, Ohio), the "Hartford Courant", the "New York Observer", and the "Arizona Daily Star". Reagle also produced a bimonthly crossword puzzle for "AARP The Magazine" magazine, a monthly crossword puzzle for the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI, and puzzles for the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. - The Sundance Film Festival, a program of the Sundance Institute, is an American film festival that takes place annually in Park City, Utah. With 46,660 attendees in 2016, it is the largest independent film festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new work from American and international independent filmmakers. The festival comprises competitive sections for American and international dramatic and documentary films, both feature films and short films, and a group of out-of-competition sections, including NEXT, New Frontier, Spotlight, Midnight, Premieres and Documentary Premieres. The 2017 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 19 to January 29, 2017. - Crossword Puzzle was a 1973 album by The Partridge Family. It was the group's second-to-last album, and was not one of their most popular albums. It was released in 1973 and did not produce a U.S. single. "Sunshine" was released as a single in Japan. This album was released on CD in 2003 on Arista's BMG Heritage label. The album has an actual crossword puzzle on the front of it, with Shirley Jones at the left and David Cassidy at the right. - Wordplay is a 2006 documentary film directed by Patrick Creadon . It features Will Shortz , the editor of the New York Times crossword puzzle , crossword constructor Merl Reagle , and many other noted crossword solvers and constructors . The second half of the movie is set at the 2005 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament ( ACPT ) , where the top solvers compete for a prize of $ 4000 . The movie focuses on the following crossword solvers : Ellen Ripstein : editor living in New York City and 2001 ACPT champion . She is also known for her baton twirling . Trip Payne : professional puzzlemaker living in South Florida and three - time ACPT Champion . He held the record as the youngest champion after winning the tournament in 1993 at the age of 24 . Tyler Hinman : student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy , New York . At the 2005 ACPT , he challenged Trip Payne for the title of youngest champion ever . Jon Delfin : pianist living in New York City and seven - time ACPT champion . Al Sanders : project manager at Hewlett - Packard in Fort Collins , Colorado . He is a frequent finalist at the ACPT . The movie contains appearances by many celebrity fans of the Times puzzle , including Bill Clinton , Bob Dole , Jon Stewart , Ken Burns , Mike Mussina , Daniel Okrent , and the Indigo Girls . A 2008 episode of The Simpsons , '' Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words '' , is based on the film . James L. Brooks got the inspiration for the episode after watching Wordplay . '' We felt both Will and Merl were very compelling , off - the - beaten - track personalities ( in Wordplay ) , who would fit into our universe very well , '' Brooks said . The episode was written by Tim Long , and directed by Nancy Kruse , and guest starred crossword puzzle creators Merl Reagle and Will Shortz as themselves . Wordplay features a theme song , '' Every Word , '' written and performed by Gary Louris of The Jayhawks . The Wordplay DVD features a music video of '' Every Word . '' - Will Shortz (born August 26, 1952 in Crawfordsville, Indiana) is an American puzzle creator and editor, and currently the crossword puzzle editor for "The New York Times". - The New York Observer is a news website which focuses on the city's culture, real estate, media, politics and the entertainment and publishing industries. Its owner Jared Kushner is Donald Trump's son-in-law and a senior advisor to him. , the editorial team is led by Ken Kurson with other writers and editors including Rex Reed, Kara BloomgardenSmoke, Will Bredderman, Jillian Jorgensen, Drew Grant, James Jorden, Kim Velsey, and Matthew Kassel. - The Hartford Courant is the largest daily newspaper in the U.S. state of Connecticut, and is often recognized as the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States. A morning newspaper serving most of the state north of New Haven and east of Waterbury, its headquarters on Broad Street are a short walk from the state capitol. It reports regional news with a chain of bureaus in smaller cities and a series of local editions. Beginning in 2000, it was owned by Tribune Company, which later combined the paper's management and facilities with those of Tribune-owned WTIC-TV in Hartford. In 2014, the newspapers were spun off to corporate parent Tribune Publishing. - Crawfordsville is a city in Union Township, Montgomery County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 15,915. The city is the county seat of Montgomery County. It is home to Wabash College, which was ranked by Forbes as #12 in the United States for undergraduate studies in 2008. - The Plain Dealer is the major daily newspaper of Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It has the largest circulation of any Ohio newspaper and was a top 20 newspaper for Sunday circulation in the United States as of March 2013. - The Los Angeles Times, commonly referred to as the Times or LA Times, is a paid daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country. In 2000, the Tribune Company, parent company of both the "Chicago Tribune" and local television station KTLA, purchased the "Los Angeles Times" by acquiring its parent company, the Times Mirror Company. The "Times" is currently owned by tronc (formerly known as Tribune Publishing). - The American Crossword Puzzle Tournament is a crossword-solving tournament held annually in February, March, or April. Founded in 1978 by Will Shortz, who still directs the tournament, it is the oldest and largest crossword tournament held in the United States; the 2009 event attracted nearly 700 competitors. The 39th annual tournament took place on April 1-3, 2016. - Patrick Creadon (born May 1, 1967) is an American film director and writer, primarily known for his work in documentary film. His film "Wordplay", a profile of "New York Times" crossword editor Will Shortz, premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and became the second-highest grossing documentary of that year. His second film, "I.O.U.S.A.", an examination of America's debt problem which forecast the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was later named one of film critic Roger Ebert's Top 5 documentaries of the year. - Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 April 4, 2013) was an American film critic and historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author. He was a film critic for the "Chicago Sun-Times" from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. - The Arizona Daily Star is the major morning daily newspaper that serves Tucson and surrounding districts of southern Arizona in the United States. The paper was purchased by Pulitzer in 1971; Lee Enterprises bought Pulitzer in 2005. At present, the paper's business operations are owned jointly by Lee Enterprises and the Gannett Company. - The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California, but distributed throughout the state from the Sacramento area and Emerald Triangle south to Santa Barbara County. It was founded in 1865 as "The Daily Dramatic Chronicle" by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young. The paper is currently owned by the Hearst Corporation, which bought it from the de Young family in 2000. - Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border. It was founded in 1796 near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, and became a manufacturing center owing to its location on the lake shore, as well as being connected to numerous canals and railroad lines. Cleveland's economy has diversified sectors that include manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, and biomedical. Cleveland is also home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. - The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated to NYT) is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18, 1851, by The New York Times Company. "The New York Times" has won 117 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other news organization. Given the paragraphs above, decide what entity has the relation 'narrative location' with 'connecticut'.
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