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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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month ago
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 - Ho, ho, this grid's got HOHOS 😀
Season 12 Episode 91
This was a terrific Tuesday crossword by Enrique Henestroza Anguiano, featuring -- of course -- a terrific theme and a strong supporting cast of "oth…
1 year, 1 month ago
Monday, May 5, 2025 - Boo-YAH, this was a marvelous Monday crossword!
Season 12 Episode 90
We try and be as impartial as possible while discussing the crossword, but when our favorite vehicle -- the DeLorean, of course -- appears in the gri…
1 year, 1 month ago