Podcast Episodes

Thursday, June 26, 2025 - Must you be leaving SASSON? 🙄

Season 13 Episode 42

Simeon Seigel is definitely on a tear, this marks his fourth NYTimes crossword this year, and his second in under a month. Quality isn't suffering at…

10 months ago

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Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - Yet *another* SOCKDOLAGER of a crossword!

Season 13 Episode 41

This was a surprising crossword, in a number of ways that we will not enumerate here, but dive into in depth in today's episode. There were too many …

10 months ago

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Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 🎵 You must remember this, a kiss is just a kiss, ASSAI is just ASSAI 🎶 🙄

Season 13 Episode 40

This was an impressive debut crossword by Ingrid Steffensen. The theme definitely and deservedly takes center stage, and the rest of the clues were a…

10 months ago

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Monday, June 23, 2025 - You! Will! Like! This! Crossword! 😀

Season 13 Episode 39

For those of you pondering the title of today's episode, fear not: all, well, nearly all, will be revealed in today's podcast, covering Zhouqin Burni…

10 months ago

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Sunday, June 22, 2025 - The only podcast crafted with the sockdolager in mind

Season 13 Episode 38

To paraphrase Yoda, the pun is strong in this one, a crossword by the mother and daughter team of Ruth B. Margolin and Hannah Margolin, the latter wh…

10 months ago

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Saturday, June 21, 2025 - Christina Iverson & Doug Peterson pull out *all* the stops!

Season 13 Episode 37

This was a quintessential NYTimes Saturday crossword - tough, fair, and fun. It was constructed by two veteran crossword constructors -- Christina Iv…

10 months ago

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Friday, June 20, 2025 - Happy Solstice Day!

Season 13 Episode 36

This was a pleasing Friday crossword - the grid looked daunting, and the clues were definitely on the hard side (Mike in particular wallowed in the b…

10 months ago

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Thursday, June 19, 2025 - Happy Juneteenth!!

Season 13 Episode 35

The NYTimes crosswords are always good, but this one stands alone, definitely worth a chef's kiss and even possibly a hug -- it was that exceptional.…

10 months, 1 week ago

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Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - Eli Cotham cranks it up!

Although this was a Wednesday crossword, some seriously Friday-level clueing did manage to make its way into the grid.  Jean had to exert considerabl…

10 months, 1 week ago

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Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - The only thing messy about today's crossword was... MESSY

Season 13 Episode 33

This was Tarun Krishnamurthy's second NYTimes crossword. It was just as good as his first, and considering that he wrote it while still in high schoo…

10 months, 1 week ago

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