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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, 6 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 months 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, 7 months 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, 7 months 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, 7 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, 7 months ago