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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…
1 year, 2 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…
1 year, 2 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…
1 year, 2 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…
1 year, 2 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…
1 year, 2 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…
1 year, 2 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…
1 year, 2 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…
1 year, 2 months 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…
1 year, 2 months 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…
1 year, 2 months ago