SPECIAL POST — To pronounce the entry that stumped many solvers in last Wednesday’s puzzle correctly, you need to know that Utne rhymes with “chutney.” It also helps to know that, when translated from Norwegian, it means “far out,” an apt descriptor for a magazine whose masthead includes the phrase “Cure Ignorance.”

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Created by Eric Utne in 1984 as a way to “bring people what I thought was the best that was out there,” the Utne Reader started life as a 12-page newsletter that summarized articles in other publications.

These days, according to its website, Utne is “a digest of the new ideas and fresh perspectives percolating in arts, culture, politics, and spirituality. A combination of original writing and reprints gleaned from books, journals, and the independent media at large, Utne is published quarterly in print and through monthly digital issues.”