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Tuesday, November 11, 2025 - Happy Veteran's Day!
Season 14 Episode 69
This is the second Christina Iverson - Scott Hogan collaboration, and the first NYTimes crossword ever to include WORCESTERSHIRE as an answer. It usually takes us several takes before we can pronounc…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Monday, November 10, 2025 - Happy Veteran's Day Eve!!
Season 14 Episode 68
This was an excellent crossword by a prolific cruciverbalist. It was a Monday, and as far as being fun and appropriate for novice puzzle solvers, a smashing success. We enjoyed the challenge of how t…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Sunday, November 9, 2025 - Amie Walker swings for the fences!
Season 14 Episode 67
If crosswords had moods, we'd classify this one as feisty. It took both cohosts, working independently as always, longer than usual to get to the happy music. But the journey is the reward, as they s…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Saturday, November 8, 2025 - MANSAMUSA, the original golden boy 🙄
Season 14 Episode 66
This was a good Saturday workout: not the hardest Saturday ever, but engaging, with some truly effervescent cluing. We covered the best-of-the-best in today's episode, but we would also like to note …
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Friday, November 7, 2025 - Today's crossword had an *ENNEAD* of debut entries (which, sadly, did not include ENNEAD🙄)
Season 14 Episode 65
This was a challenging crossword for both cohosts, as both -- solving independently as is their custom -- ended up in the same area of the grid, temporary waylaid by the crossing of 40A, The Brady ho…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - YOWZAH, what a crossword!!
Season 14 Episode 64
For you polyglots out there, the NYTimes has written a love letter, cleverly disguised as a crossword -- today's, to be precise, a magnificent opus by Sam Brody. For the rest of us, the crossword was…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 - All hail ANNA Lee Fisher, first mother in space!
Season 14 Episode 63
The first author of today's crossword, Chad Hazen, had over 40 rejections before finally getting a crossword published -- but when he did get it published it was in the New York Times, so there is th…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Tuesday, November 4, 2025 - Make ROOM for the ROOMBA
Season 14 Episode 62
This was a debut crossword by Patrick Hayden, and a very nice one, to boot. The theme was sly, and the author has a knack for writing novel clues for common answers. We covered many of them in the po…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Sunday, November 2, 2025 - A veritable *ocean* of white squares 😳
Season 14 Episode 61
If you fear crosswords with large swathes of white squares, infrequently interrupted by a black square or two (and psychiatrists have a technical name for that: "normal"), you might want to give this…
Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Saturday, November 1, 2025 - All hail the PEOPLESELBOW! 💪🏽
Season 14 Episode 60
This was a sweet Saturday crossword by Michael Lieberman, filled with his characteristically witty, and fresh clueing. We've covered the best in the podcast, but we also were enamored with 37D, Atypi…
Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago