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Sunday, March 2, 2025 - Today's puzzle, brought to you in Crossword-Color™️🌈 🙄
Even a casual glance at today's grid will reveal that something's up - seven vertical colored lines that, unsurprisingly, play a huge role in today's…
1 year, 1 month ago
Saturday, March 1, 2025 - Hello, March!
Season 12 Episode 30
March reputedly comes in like a lion, and today's crossword does the same -- parts of it are ferocious, and it seems to have lots of claws. OK, that …
1 year, 1 month ago
Friday, February 28, 2025 - And now, a PAEAN to today's crossword
Season 12 Episode 29
Michael Lieberman is an accomplished crossword constructor, having written 27 for the NYTimes. Today's oeuvre had some great clues, including 63A, Pe…
1 year, 1 month ago
Thursday, February 27, 2025 - David Steinberg is baaaaaaack! 🎉
It's been over a year since David Steinberg last graced the pages of the NYTimes crossword, and from our perspective it's been just over a year too l…
1 year, 2 months ago
Wednesday, February 26, 2025 - We long for more crosswords by Dan Caprera 😁
Season 12 Episode 27
Both cohosts found today's crossword to be a wee bit crunchier than usual (to use a technical cruciverbial term meaning, loosely translated, "really,…
1 year, 2 months ago
Monday, February 24, 2025 - Rena Cohen is back, and better than ever!
Season 12 Episode 25
Rena Cohen, who we just saw in the NYTimes crossword last month is back again, and she remains at the top of her game. For proof -- OK, for strong an…
1 year, 2 months ago
Tuesday, February 25, 2025 - We are DONEZO with today's crossword 😀
Season 12 Episode 26
This marks Greg Snitkin's second NYTimes crossword, almost one year, to the day, since his debut. The crossword had some fun entries, including 63A, …
1 year, 2 months ago
Sunday, February 23, 2025 - Nothing SPURIOUS about today's crossword, all clues have been triple-checked! The podcast though ... 😉
Season 12 Episode 24
There were some very nice pairings in today's crossword:
The oh-so-close 7D, Sound of a smooth-running engine, PURR, and 45D, Catherine ___, wife of H…1 year, 2 months ago
Saturday, February 22, 2025 - Happy Belated GALENTINESDAY 😀
Season 12 Episode 23
Apologies for not wishing people a happy GALENTINESDAY earlier, but as one of our cohosts had never heard of the word until doing today's superb cros…
1 year, 2 months ago
Friday, February 20, 2025 - Today's crossword is SWAK!
Season 12 Episode 22
Today's episode explores Colin Adams' fifth NYTimes crossword, which is just as good as his other four, i.e., great! It was a tough but rewarding puz…
1 year, 2 months ago