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By Dave Fisher, About.com Guide to Puzzles since 1997

Crossword Addiction Leads To Arrest

Sunday February 20, 2005
In Uganda, a man obsessed with crossword puzzles was arrested for buying the banned Kenyan newspaper The Daily Nation. He explained that he no longer found the puzzles in the government-owned newspaper challenging enough. Asked if he knew that The Daily Nation was a banned paper, he said he didn't. He was finally set free and told that he should not be reading it. That was the State Research Bureau at its mundane, everyday job.

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