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Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 🎵 Tonight we're gonna party like it's twenty-twenty-five ♬ 😀
Season 12 Episode 46
It was with great satisfaction that we welcome back to the grid Alan ALDA, who has not made too many appearances as of late, always glad to see a gre…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Monday, March 17, 2025 - Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Season 12 Episode 45
There was no green in today's grid, as far as we could see, but there must've been a gleam in the eye of the cruciverbalist, Kathy Lowden, as she put…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Saturday, March 15, 2025 - It was a DARKNSTORMY crossword 🙄
Season 12 Episode 44
Today's crossword was by Ryan McCarty, who specializes in spectacular Saturday crosswords like this one. The clues were challenging, and there was a …
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Friday, March 14, 2025 - A Perfect Friday Crossword ❤️
Brandon Koppy has a knack for writing magnificently deceptive clues, and his gifts are on full display in today's puzzle -- a tough but highly satisf…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Thursday, March 13, 2025 - ESSIE, the preferred nail polish for 9 out of 10 mythical Scottish loch monsters 🙄
Season 12 Episode 42
The consensus at JAMDTNYTC HQ is that this was a terrific Thursday crossword, and a limbering up, as it were, in preparation for the grueling Friday …
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 - No, an ARTEMIS is *not* as good as an ARTEMILE 🙄
Season 12 Episode 41
It takes just an askance glance at today's grid to know that something's up. Perhaps it's the suspicious symmetry, or the fact that several runs of g…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 - An ERIE-ily good crossword!
Season 12 Episode 40
This was a debut crossword by Jared Cappel, and it was a fine one. The theme was sharp, and surrounded by a bevy of equally keen non-themed clues: th…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Monday, March 10, 2025 - A (LITTLE)LULU of a crossword!
Season 12 Episode 39
One of Will Shortz's greatest innovations was the strategy of making Monday crosswords easy, then making them progressively harder throughout the wee…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Sunday, March 9, 2025 - Ah, the sweet aroma of newsprint and printer's ink
Season 12 Episode 38
The doctor -- Dr. Michael Schlossberg, to be precise -- was in fine form today, taking a sentimental stroll through the history books. Jean made shor…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Saturday, May 8, 2025 - Joe Deeney, the Houdini of crossword constructors 🙄😁
Season 12 Episode 37
Joe Deeney has created a daunting looking Saturday grid -- there are oodles of 4-stack answers, and as an ADDEDBONUS, a pinwheel in the center with v…
10 months ago