Merl Reagle, Crossword Creator for The Washington Post, Dies at 65

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Merl Reagle, the imaginative and irrepressibly amusing verbal virtuoso who created the crossword puzzles published each week in The Washington Post Magazine and in many newspapers, died Aug. 22 in a hospital in Tampa. He was 65.   He had entered the hospital Thursday after an attack of acute pancreatitis, his wife said.