Fill Me In #181: What seems like nonsense is just cleverly disguised brilliance.

In this week's episode of Fill Me In, Ryan and Brian verb Ben Zimmer, calculate the likelihood of traveling to Egypt, and learn how to make a bubble wig.

• Deborah Cameron's article on "Ette-ymology"
• A.J. Pollock's statistics
• Is it hunt yet?
• Puzzle Hunt Calendar
• Mouse Adventure
• Little Monsters and Knock Down the House
• Wiktionary: "stewardess"
• The MIT Mystery Hunt (puzzles, solutions, spoilers)
• P & A Magazine
• Westport Crossword Puzzle Contest
• Finger Lakes Crossword Competition
• The Indie 500
• The New York Times puzzles, January 28-February 3

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