Fill Me In #231: The cranky icing on the cranky cake.

This week, Ryan and Brian talk cryptics, number puzzles, and the New York Times Spelling Bee – and you'll be lucky if any of it came out right, thanks to some shoddy internet service in California. Editing this week's show was utter bananas. You think we're usually incoherent? Let's see how this works out.

We're continuing the Contest of Still Going On, and you can downloade it at http://bit.ly/fmi230con.

Check out some links:

• Neville Fogarty's Cryptic Triptych
• Online Calcudoku Puzzles
• Nikoli Puzzles
• the truth about Swedish meatballs

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