Crossword champ fills in the blanks
SAVOY – What's a four-letter word for something that's raggedy? Here's another clue: she's not "the other Boleyn girl."
The answer is Anne, as in pony-tailed, bespectacled Anne Erdmann, a local geologist who won a national contest for crossword aficionados.
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