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Friday, May 16, 2025 - MEGASTORE - when you're running low on MEGAs 🙄
Season 13 Episode 1
Today's puzzle was a trifle easier than your typical Friday, which means -- by the Law of Conservation of Crossword Difficulty™️ -- you can expect to…
11 months, 1 week ago
Thursday, May 15th, 2025 - Today's puzzle BELIEs the notion that nobody knows what BELIE means 😉
This marks Simeon Siegel's 17th crossword since 2020, and while he might not be OVERPROUD, it is most certainly something to celebrate. The theme was…
11 months, 1 week ago
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 - Featuring potatoes: the origin story!
Season 12 Episode 99
Today's crossword was by award-winning crossword constructor Rebecca Goldstein and, if not award-winning, deserving-of-award crossword constructor Ad…
11 months, 1 week ago
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - ELATION! A crossword with *ELATION* in the grid 😀 😉🙄
This was a nice Tuesday crossword by Joe Rodini, his second for the NYTimes. He's now been published on Monday and Tuesday, so ... 5 to go, Joe! Toda…
11 months, 1 week ago
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…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
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…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
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…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
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…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
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…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
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…
11 months, 2 weeks ago