Angry verbs.

I have been asked in a comment by sivet to explain the cryptic ticker at the bottom of many of my journal entries. I believe most of the gentlemen and ladies reading this humble journal know what it is, but since I've been adding new journals to my friends list who have in turn been adding me to theirs, there are many who don't know what they mean.

They are my times for the crossword puzzles I do online most every day. I first mentioned them in an entry on March 24. Some people were interested, so I continued to do so. I explained my reason for putting these things down in another entry on March 27. Since then I've been posting times and comments pretty regularly, and it has evolved into the condensed, ticker-tape-like notation that appears at the bottom of my entries.

So here's what everything means, using today's crosswords as an example:
( What follows is a fairly detailed explanation of my notes and of crosswords in general. Feel free to skip it. )