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The Odds and Ends of Accent Marks

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There are some answers that you can just ignore the special characters.

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Rebecca Tulis

There's an accent mark on the E in "Khloé Kardashian," who was 1-Across in Thursday's puzzle. The media is pretty good about using that accent mark most of the time — but what about crossword writers?

We generally ignore accent marks in grids, since the crossing word would need to use...

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