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Thursday, November 13, 2025 - 🎶 In the circle, the circle of life 🎶🦁
Season 14 Episode 71
This was a tricky Thursday crossword and a magnificent debut for Kyle Perkins. Jean struggled and Mike strugggggled, to get to the happy music; both …
5 months, 1 week ago
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 - It was a horse! Mule! Horse! Mule! ...
Season 14 Episode 70
The father and daughter duo of Brad Wiegmann and Nicole Wiegmann have teamed up to create a wonderful connect-the-dots-er-squares puzzle-within-a-puz…
5 months, 1 week ago
Tuesday, November 11, 2025 - Happy Veteran's Day!
Season 14 Episode 69
This is the second Christina Iverson - Scott Hogan collaboration, and the first NYTimes crossword ever to include WORCESTERSHIRE as an answer. It usu…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Monday, November 10, 2025 - Happy Veteran's Day Eve!!
Season 14 Episode 68
This was an excellent crossword by a prolific cruciverbalist. It was a Monday, and as far as being fun and appropriate for novice puzzle solvers, a s…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Sunday, November 9, 2025 - Amie Walker swings for the fences!
Season 14 Episode 67
If crosswords had moods, we'd classify this one as feisty. It took both cohosts, working independently as always, longer than usual to get to the hap…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Saturday, November 8, 2025 - MANSAMUSA, the original golden boy 🙄
Season 14 Episode 66
This was a good Saturday workout: not the hardest Saturday ever, but engaging, with some truly effervescent cluing. We covered the best-of-the-best i…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Friday, November 7, 2025 - Today's crossword had an *ENNEAD* of debut entries (which, sadly, did not include ENNEAD🙄)
Season 14 Episode 65
This was a challenging crossword for both cohosts, as both -- solving independently as is their custom -- ended up in the same area of the grid, temp…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - YOWZAH, what a crossword!!
Season 14 Episode 64
For you polyglots out there, the NYTimes has written a love letter, cleverly disguised as a crossword -- today's, to be precise, a magnificent opus b…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 - All hail ANNA Lee Fisher, first mother in space!
Season 14 Episode 63
The first author of today's crossword, Chad Hazen, had over 40 rejections before finally getting a crossword published -- but when he did get it publ…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Tuesday, November 4, 2025 - Make ROOM for the ROOMBA
Season 14 Episode 62
This was a debut crossword by Patrick Hayden, and a very nice one, to boot. The theme was sly, and the author has a knack for writing novel clues for…
5 months, 3 weeks ago