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Tuesday, March 11, 2025 - An ERIE-ily good crossword!
Season 12 Episode 40
This was a debut crossword by Jared Cappel, and it was a fine one. The theme was sharp, and surrounded by a bevy of equally keen non-themed clues: th…
1 year, 3 months ago
Monday, March 10, 2025 - A (LITTLE)LULU of a crossword!
Season 12 Episode 39
One of Will Shortz's greatest innovations was the strategy of making Monday crosswords easy, then making them progressively harder throughout the wee…
1 year, 3 months ago
Sunday, March 9, 2025 - Ah, the sweet aroma of newsprint and printer's ink
Season 12 Episode 38
The doctor -- Dr. Michael Schlossberg, to be precise -- was in fine form today, taking a sentimental stroll through the history books. Jean made shor…
1 year, 3 months ago
Saturday, May 8, 2025 - Joe Deeney, the Houdini of crossword constructors 🙄😁
Season 12 Episode 37
Joe Deeney has created a daunting looking Saturday grid -- there are oodles of 4-stack answers, and as an ADDEDBONUS, a pinwheel in the center with v…
1 year, 3 months ago
Friday, March 7, 2025 - MOVIEMAGIC, on the big screen, and in this tiny grid 😀
Season 12 Episode 36
Today's crossword was a great mental workout, replete with fine, fabulously deceptive clues -- just the kind that you hope for on a Friday.
For exampl…
1 year, 3 months ago
Thursday, March 6, 2025 - Three (Slightly Belated) Cheers for ALYRAISMAN! 🤸♀️
Season 12 Episode 35
At least one of our cohosts wasn't quite on the same wavelength as today's constructor, Kiran Pandey: the clues and answers just felt a wee bit ... o…
1 year, 3 months ago
Wednesday, March 5, 2025 - Happy ... Halloween??
Season 12 Episode 34
This was a spookily fun crossword by Rebecca Goldstein, who we are fairly certain won the ORCA Constructor of the Year Award sometime in the not too …
1 year, 3 months ago
Tuesday, March 4, 2025 - Announcing the discovery of the world's first Chameleon Word™️
Season 12 Episode 33
This was a fine Tuesday-level crossword, the fourth (on the 4th!) for Hanh Huynh. The theme shone, the rest of the fill was quite good, and the end r…
1 year, 3 months ago
Monday, March 3, 2025 - Vroom, vroom!
Season 12 Episode 32
If you didn't know anything about today's constructor, you'd likely conclude, as did we, that this was a fine Monday crossword. But then, if you disc…
1 year, 3 months ago
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, 3 months ago