NY Times New Years Puzzles

[QuikSand]

For those who are puzzle-inclined, here's a link to a set of puzzles published by the New York Times -- answers will apparently be made available some time next week. I'm just printing them out, after getting this link -- perhaps we can do some collaborating, if we get stuck. It's 11 pages, and apparently they all come together at the end in some way.

Enjoy!

[QuikSand]

Oh, you want the actual link, do you?

Fine.

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/opinion/20041231_PUZZLES/edt_PUZZLE_all.pdf

[TredWel]

Took me about half an hour to solve enough of them to solve the final puzzle. Quite fun.

[Barkeep49]

I'm none too good at the puzzle, I guess. After one go through I have solved 9, 6, and 2. I have partial answers for 8, 5, 3 and really haven't done much with the remaining ones.

[QuikSand]

I did this over lunch today -- not too bad, really. I didn't do a lot of backwards-working, but it took me more than a half hour to solve it all.

[Celeval]

Fun stuff.