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Monday, May 26, 2025 - In today's episode, we drill down on dental definitions 🙄
Season 13 Episode 12
This is Ari Halpern's third NYTimes crossword, but his previous crossword appeared seventeen years ago. We're hoping that's because Ari found other t…
11 months ago
Sunday, May 25, 2025 - 🎵 All together now ... like an Einstein-Rosen bridge, over trouuuubled waters🎵 🙄
Season 13 Episode 11
This was a brilliant crossword by Dylan Schiff. Solving it was terrific fun, but creating it must've been a real bear (to borrow from a recent NYTime…
11 months ago
Saturday, May 24, 2025 - Today's crossword contained, literally, a PLEASANTSURPRISE
Season 13 Episode 10
Both cohosts found today's crossword to be a tad on the easy side (for a Saturday), but it nonetheless had some brilliant clues. Among these were 32D…
11 months ago
Friday, May 23, 2025 - No, AKEE is not how you feel after eating an AKEE 🙄
Season 13 Episode 8
Our intrepid cohosts -- solving, as always, independently -- had very different experiences whilst filling in the grid. Jean got through this relativ…
11 months ago
Thursday, May 22, 2025 - If crosswords were paintings, this'd be the Mona Lisa 🖼️
Season 13 Episode 7
This crossword was the embodiment of what makes the NYTimes Crossword so outstanding: a fantabulous theme amid a sea of novel and some LOL supporting…
11 months ago
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 - A crossword so good you'll wish it was SOSTENUTO!
Season 13 Episode 6
There was art in today's grid -- specifically at 29A, "The most beautiful deception of all," per Debussy, ART, and more generally, everywhere else; b…
11 months ago
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 - It's NIGH well about time NIGH made a comeback! 😀
This was Rena Cohen's first Tuesday crossword, and like the other three that she has constructed for the NYTimes, it was excellent: a brilliant theme…
11 months ago
Monday, May 19, 2025 - We're agOG about today's crossword 😉
Season 13 Episode 4
This was a fun, fast, frothy Monday crossword. It would be a great crossword to solve with the young'uns, for reasons that will become evident as you…
11 months, 1 week ago
Sunday, May 18, 2025 - A big ola! to those who sell OLLAS 😏
Season 13 Episode 3
Today's crossword seemed (to at least one of our cohosts) to be slightly crunchier than the usual Sunday, thanks to clues like 3D, "Ci vediamo in gir…
11 months, 1 week ago
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - The "toughest crossword of the week" lives up to its name!
Season 13 Episode 2
This was an excellent Saturday crossword -- with some Ginzu-knife-sharp cluing, and just a light dusting of pop culture references -- which is precis…
11 months, 1 week ago