Today’s answer: Jumble’s back

To our readers:

We heard you.

With the debut of The Spokesman-Review’s redesign Monday, the overwhelming response was “bring back the Jumble.” Well, it’s back.

The puzzle was dropped by its syndicate late last week, and we feared we could not replace it. But we found a new provider Monday morning, so all of you puzzle fans may rest easy.

Your other concerns:

The daily crossword puzzle: The syndicate that provided our daily crossword dropped it last week. That’s why we’ve added the New York Times puzzle daily.

Type sizes and readability: Our primary body type is almost identical in size, density and leading (the space between lines) to the old typeface. However, readability was an issue in our briefs columns, so we’ll change over to regular body type for those features beginning today. Our smaller sports and stocks type is larger than in the former design.

Reproduction and ink problems: The page-width reduction forced a complete overhaul of our presses. Production director Paul Schafer says it will take about a week to recalibrate and fine-tune the presses to bring reproduction back to our award-winning standards. You should see improvement daily.

To those of you who sent along compliments, our sincere thanks. To those who sent complaints, our thanks and a promise that we’ll listen to all of them and will try to tackle the problems you’ve identified.

You may continue to e-mail your comments to editorforum@spokesman.com or call (509) 744-5650 and leave a message.

Steve Smith, editor