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Thursday, August 7, 2025 - No DROSS in today's grid ... er, other than DROSS 🙄

Season 13 Episode 84

This was a splendid crossword by Ben Zimmer. There were no rebuses, but the ingenious theme was a surprise and a delight. We give it a 5 squares on the JAMCR scale, and for the reasons why, have a li…

Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago

Wednesday, August 6, 2025 - YEET that was a great crossword!

Season 13 Episode 83

The appearance of YEET in the grid is always cause for celebration, a reminder that the English language is not set in its ways, but evolving at a rate that would've made Noah Webster exclaim "YEET t…

Published on 4 weeks, 2 days ago

Tuesday, August 5, 2025 - India.ARIE, in the grid and, hopefully, on your playlist!

Season 13 Episode 82

This was a picture-perfect Tuesday crossword by Gary Larson and Amy Ensz, marking their second collaboration. The theme was suitably surprising, and the rest of the puzzle equally excellent. Besides …

Published on 1 month ago

Monday, August 4, 2025 - ARIL showers bring ... a need for a more attentive spell-checker 🙄

Season 13 Episode 81

This was a satisfyingly crunchy Monday crossword; it took both cohosts, laboring independently as usual, a significantly longer time than usual to complete. They blame it on the AQI, which in NE Wisc…

Published on 1 month ago

Sunday, August 3, 2025 - Energize!

Season 13 Episode 80

Today's crossword was an homage to the iconic series STARTREK, which has been around since the 1960s and at this rate seems likely to continue to exist until its actual putative time, in the 2260's.

W…

Published on 1 month ago

Saturday, August 2, 2025 - Robert Logan strikes again! 😀

Season 13 Episode 79

This was a superlative Saturday crossword, thanks to an ocean of uber-crisp clues, each forming a "mini-mystery" that you had to solve en route to the happy music. 

Marvel at the handiwork of, for ins…

Published on 1 month ago

Friday, August 1, 2025 - Happy Spider-Man Day!!

Season 13 Episode 78

This was a fantabulous Friday crossword that will have you saying 49D, "Look what I did!", TADA, if you are able to solve it. On the way to that illustrious goal, you might have a hunch as to an answ…

Published on 1 month ago

Thursday, July 31, 2025 - Behold, the ANTithesis of a bad crossword 😉

Season 13 Episode 77

Once again, the rebus rules, and indeed in today's crossword may even be said to teem, for it appears a whopping ten times in today's grid, in various amusing and unexpected places that are detailed …

Published on 1 month ago

Wednesday, July 30, 2025 - The name's WANG, Vera WANG 👜

Season 13 Episode 76

Today's theme was sweet -- literally! You'll know why within 30 seconds of the start of today's episode, or, if you're in more of a hurry, within 30 milliseconds of glancing at the grid. 

There were s…

Published on 1 month ago

Tuesday, July 29, 2025 - Stop us if you've heard this one -- Roger Ebert, Albert Einstein, and Mary J. Blige walk into a grid ...

Season 13 Episode 75

This was an ab fab Tuesday crossword by Peter Gorman, with an admirably serpentine theme, as we explain in today's episode (and, as usual, you can see  by checking out the solution at xwordinfo.com).…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago