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Wednesday, August 28, 2024 - TROI and KLINGON? Sensors detect a Star-Trek mini-theme, cap'n!
Season 10 Episode 52
A delightfully complex theme by Jesse Goldberg, cleverly finessing the rule that the answer to a clue should not appear in the clue. Highly original …
1 year, 4 months ago
Tuesday, August 27, 2024 - Benoit MANDELBROT was a genius, and that's a f(r)act!
Season 10 Episode 51
A clever Tuesday crossword by Julia Hoepner, with a theme that was as good as it was bad, which we promise will make sense once you've listened to th…
1 year, 4 months ago
Monday, August 26, 2024 - Triple your pleasure!
It is hard to find fault with a crossword that has LULU Lemon in the grid, so we will not even try, rather we will simply TOUT it for being what it i…
1 year, 4 months ago
Sunday, August 25, 2024 - Double, double, toil and ... an *awesome* NYTimes crossword!
Season 10 Episode 49
A very nicely done crossword by John Kugelman, his 5th for the NYTimes. Jean tore through it, Mike took ... only slightly less time than it took Icht…
1 year, 4 months ago
Saturday, August 24, 2024 - Aw, a FOSTERKITTEN 🥰
Season 10 Episode 48
This is Ryan McCarty's 28th NYTimes crossword, almost all of which (23, to be precise) have appeared on this very day -- Saturday. The clues were qui…
1 year, 4 months ago
Friday, August 23, 2023 - Listening to Tik Tok on TikTok 😎
Season 10 Episode 47
A nice Friday crossword by Taylor Johnson and Rafael Musa, not too difficult, but not a walk in the park, either. We have our cutting edge analysis, …
1 year, 4 months ago
Thursday, August 22, 2024 -
Season 10 Episode 46
A rather curious THeme, Jean sussed it immediately, Mike aspires to do so at an indeterminate point in the hopefully near future. 😀 There were some c…
1 year, 4 months ago
Wednesday, August 21, 2024 - An IDEAL Wednesday Crossword
Season 10 Episode 45
Stacey Yaruss McCullough has created a fine debut crossword, with some dazzling feats of portmanteau-rhymery, and if that isn't part of the English l…
1 year, 4 months ago
Tuesday, August 20, 2024 - Awoogah, there's a forest fire in the TAIGA!!
Season 10 Episode 44
Sam Buchbinder ha a reputation for writing splendid clues and crosswords, and he certainly lives up to it today, with some very amusing clues, includ…
1 year, 4 months ago
Monday, August 19, 2024 - Don't YAMMER about people who like to YABBER 😂
Season 10 Episode 43
A surprising Monday crossword by Kenneth Cortes, who has gone against the convention that themed clues run in the same direction -- but he had an exc…
1 year, 4 months ago