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Cubs first baseman Matt Mervis crumpled up a photocopy of Friday’s USA Today crossword puzzle and chucked it into a wastebasket.
Frustrated? Flustered? Flummoxed?
No, just finished. Mervis completed the puzzle, eventually wrestling the most difficult answers into submission. Did you know the author of “The Wretched of the Earth” was a philosopher by the name of Frantz Fanon? Or that Nikhil Banerjee was a renowned sitarist? Or that there was a movie several years back called “Tangerine”?