Podcast Episodes

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

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Friday, March 7, 2025 - MOVIEMAGIC, on the big screen, and in this tiny grid 😀

Season 12 Episode 36

Today's crossword was a great mental workout, replete with fine, fabulously deceptive clues -- just the kind that you hope for on a Friday.

For exampl…

10 months ago

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Thursday, March 6, 2025 - Three (Slightly Belated) Cheers for ALYRAISMAN! 🤸‍♀️

Season 12 Episode 35

At least one of our cohosts wasn't quite on the same wavelength as today's constructor, Kiran Pandey: the clues and answers just felt a wee bit ... o…

10 months ago

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Wednesday, March 5, 2025 - Happy ... Halloween??

Season 12 Episode 34

This was a spookily fun crossword by Rebecca Goldstein, who we are fairly certain won the ORCA Constructor of the Year Award sometime in the not too …

10 months ago

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Tuesday, March 4, 2025 - Announcing the discovery of the world's first Chameleon Word™️

Season 12 Episode 33

This was a fine Tuesday-level crossword, the fourth (on the 4th!) for Hanh Huynh. The theme shone, the rest of the fill was quite good, and the end r…

10 months ago

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Monday, March 3, 2025 - Vroom, vroom!

Season 12 Episode 32

If you didn't know anything about today's constructor, you'd likely conclude, as did we, that this was a fine Monday crossword. But then, if you disc…

10 months ago

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Sunday, March 2, 2025 - Today's puzzle, brought to you in Crossword-Color™️🌈 🙄

Even a casual glance at today's grid will reveal that something's up - seven vertical colored lines that, unsurprisingly, play a huge role in today's…

10 months, 1 week ago

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Saturday, March 1, 2025 - Hello, March!

Season 12 Episode 30

March reputedly comes in like a lion, and today's crossword does the same -- parts of it are ferocious, and it seems to have lots of claws. OK, that …

10 months, 1 week ago

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Friday, February 28, 2025 - And now, a PAEAN to today's crossword

Season 12 Episode 29

Michael Lieberman is an accomplished crossword constructor, having written 27 for the NYTimes. Today's oeuvre had some great clues, including 63A, Pe…

10 months, 1 week ago

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Thursday, February 27, 2025 - David Steinberg is baaaaaaack! 🎉

It's been over a year since David Steinberg last graced the pages of the NYTimes crossword, and from our perspective it's been just over a year too l…

10 months, 1 week ago

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