[nikos1121]

Tricky CG today from The Arkansas Gazette.

10 minutes good
5 minutes excellent
2 minutes superior

[ComputerGuy]

Tricky is right. Coffee helped, I’m sure.

[zeebee]

Got it except for one letter

[grey_whiskers]

All but one letter of the last name (I don’t know the author), 3 min.
Word 5 is the key because of the double letter.
Two likely choices.
Grammar together with shared letter with 4th word guides you;
then leads you to the 3rd word.

1st letter of 9th word gives you that.

Then grammar again gives you 2nd word rapidly followed by 1st.

Then look at all the pretty letters which have been filled in, in the next-to-last word of the sentence. Complete that word (hint: note the double letter).

Then the 7th and 8th words are trivial.

Then everything else but the one letter in the author’s name is obvious.

[xrmusn]

After a couple of false starts I managed to put something together.

I wouldn’t have quite put it the way the author did.

[SolidRedState]

Toughy. OVER 10 minutes. Deceiving and strangely worded.