Podcast Episodes

Monday, May 12, 2025 - 🥳 Celebrating the 500th appearance of the OREO in the NYTimes crossword!!🎉🎈

Season 12 Episode 97

It is hard to believe that today marks the 500th appearance of OREO in the NYTimes crossword, but that's the word according to xwordinfo.com, and the…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

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Sunday, May 11, 2025 - Danger, Will Robinson! Extremely hard crossword approaching

Season 12 Episode 96

Brendan Emmett Quigley is famed for writing tough crosswords, and he has the pedal to the metal today. First, the grid: it is the standard 21x21 Sund…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

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Saturday, May 10, 2025 - Happy Mother's Day Eve!!

Season 12 Episode 95

This was a fine Saturday crossword - tough but fair, as Saturday crosswords were meant to be. Our favorite clue had to be 29A, Some dragonflies, DARN…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

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Friday, May 9, 2025 - At long last, GRACEHOPPER is in the grid!

Season 12 Episode 94

This was a Friday crossword, and even a casual glance through the clues and grid makes it clear that co-constructors Willa Angel Chen Miller and Erik…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

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Thursday, May 8, 2025 - Battle stations! An incoming Dan Caprera crossword at 9 o'clock!!

Season 12 Episode 93

It seems appropriate that MENSA was in the grid (well, 4/5 of it, anyway - see the podcast for deets), because this crossword was genius. It had a st…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

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Wednesday, May 7, 2025 - Happy Belated Wordle Day!

Season 12 Episode 92

We have it on good authority that yesterday was Wordle Day - ironic, because one of the answers in today's puzzle also solved today's wordle! That ca…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

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Tuesday, May 6, 2025 - Ho, ho, this grid's got HOHOS 😀

Season 12 Episode 91

This was a terrific Tuesday crossword by Enrique Henestroza Anguiano, featuring -- of course -- a terrific theme and a strong supporting cast of "oth…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

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Monday, May 5, 2025 - Boo-YAH, this was a marvelous Monday crossword!

Season 12 Episode 90

We try and be as impartial as possible while discussing the crossword, but when our favorite vehicle -- the DeLorean, of course -- appears in the gri…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

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Sunday, May 4, 2025 - Ah, who can forget the uplifting strains of 🎶 tum, tum, .... tum, tum, tum, tuuuuuuuum, tum 🎶🚀 😀

Season 12 Episode 89

Today's crossword must've surely been challenging to construct, but the end result is brilliant, thanks to constructor Brandon Koppy (under the keen …

9 months, 3 weeks ago

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Saturday, May 3, 2025 - Pass the SHAKSHUKA -- fun to say, delicious to eat!

Season 12 Episode 88

This was a very nice Saturday crossword by Michael Lieberman, his 29th for the NYTimes. It had a boatload of fine Saturday-level clues, perfectly pos…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

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