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Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - OPDOC - A Spiderman villain or an NYTimes feature, something like that ...
Season 13 Episode 21
It is unclear when "crunchy" was first used to categorize crosswords, but what is clear is that today's was definitely a crunchier than usual Wednesday - just the way we like it! Need proof? Check ou…
Published on 6 months, 4 weeks ago
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 - TAUPE, *the* perfect color choice for a toupee 🙄
Season 13 Episode 20
There was a lot to love in today's crossword, but it had us at 25A, Ref. work with definitions for "colour" and "aluminium", OED (our favorite reference work of all time). We became even more smitten…
Published on 6 months, 4 weeks ago
Monday, June 2, 2025 - Yup, this crossword was dee-lish!
Season 13 Episode 19
This was a very fine sophomore crossword by Anthony V. Grubb, appearing almost exactly one year after his NY Times debut (also a Monday). The theme was cute; the clues, at an apposite Monday level, i…
Published on 7 months ago
Sunday, June 1, 2025 - Time to dust off those Jumble skills!
Season 13 Episode 18
If you grew up on Jumble (as, apparently, the author did), then you'll feel right at home tackling this awesome homage to anagrams, an impressive debut by Sam Brody. Ironically, the word anagram does…
Published on 7 months ago
Saturday, May 31, 2025 - Happy Last Day of May!
Season 13 Episode 17
Today's puzzle was an enjoyable albeit challenging tag-team effort by Adam Aaronson and Ricky Cruz. Jean got through it in good time, Mike ... got through it, slowed down in numerous areas, but prima…
Published on 7 months ago
Friday, May 30 2025 - ALLABOARD ... the crossword express! 🚂 😀
Season 13 Episode 16
This was a fine end-of-work-week crossword by Rafael Musa, his 19th for the NYTimes and his 9th Friday, so he certainly knows this day well! Though seemingly not hugely difficult, it was a good warmu…
Published on 7 months ago
Thursday, May 29, 2025 - You'd probably need to be in Mensa to get the clue about Mensa 😉
Season 13 Episode 15
The constructor of today's crossword, John Kugelman, is mostly known for his Sunday crosswords: but somehow he managed to squeeze all that ken into a 15x15 grid, and the result is this fine Thursday …
Published on 7 months ago
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 🎶 Traditiiiiiiiiion, tradition 🎶 🎻
Season 13 Episode 14
This was a clever Wednesday crossword, and not just because its author, Peter A. Collins, slipped 21A, Understanding, KEN, and 22D, Astuteness, ACUMEN, into the grid. It was, inevitably, the theme th…
Published on 7 months ago
Tuesday, May 27, 2025 - Just like 5D, this crossword was ALLGOOD!
Season 13 Episode 13
This was a fine Tuesday crossword by Ginny Too, with a twee theme that lent itself to some amusing segues, as you will discover in today's episode. We also have our Triplet Tuesday segment, so to see…
Published on 7 months ago
Monday, May 26, 2025 - In today's episode, we drill down on dental definitions 🙄
Season 13 Episode 12
This is Ari Halpern's third NYTimes crossword, but his previous crossword appeared seventeen years ago. We're hoping that's because Ari found other things to do in the interim, and not because he's s…
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago