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Thursday, September 24, 2026 — Another CFTA (Crossword For the Ages)!! 🎉
Season 17 Episode 75
The NYTimes crossword has its standards (as in an expectation of excellence: no dreck allowed) and its standards (rules/conventions that must be foll…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Wednesday, September 23, 2026 — An OBOE's a "Sprightly Companion"? Um, Okaaaaay ... 🤔🧐
Season 17 Episode 74
There were several quite intriguing clues in today's grid. Your cohosts found 62A, Instrument also called the "sprightly companion", OBOE, to be the …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Tuesday, September 22, 2026 — A WONDERful Tuesday Crossword 😉❤️
Season 17 Episode 73
The name "Erik Agard" has been known to cause crossword solvers to quake in their boots, because the esteemed gentlemen has crafted some very challen…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Monday, September 21, 2026 — 🎶 🫖 Tea, For Two, and Two For Tea 🫖 🎶
Season 17 Episode 72
Today's crossword was a great start to our puzzle-solving week. The theme was très amusant, as the French like to say, definitely worth the price of …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Sunday, September 20, 2026 —Tracy Gray Shows Off Her Crossword Super Powers
Season 17 Episode 71
Tracy Gray has had 38 crosswords published in the NYTimes, including 13 Sundays. We'd call today's work a typical TG puzzle, except for the fact that…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Saturday, September 19, 2026 — Playing a Ukitar's Easier When Wearing a Unitard? Riiiiight ... 🙄
Season 17 Episode 70
This was a lively Saturday crossword, thanks in part to Hannah Slovut's talent at working exciting new answers into the grid: there were a total of 1…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Friday, September 18, 2026 — A Splendiferous Way to Wrap Up the Workweek
Season 17 Episode 69
Ryan Mathiason's third NYTimes crossword, and his first Friday, was an elegant piece of cruciverbial magic. We like clues that educate —13A, Modern t…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Thursday, September 17, 2026 — 🎉 Woo-hoo, 250,000 Downloads and Counting!! 🎉
Season 17 Episode 68
According to BuzzSprout, our podcast has had over 250,000 downloads, and so, to celebrate, we're ... going to do another podcast 😀
Your cohosts had s…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Wednesday, September 16, 2026 — Bonjour, BASENJI!
Season 17 Episode 67
Today's crossword was an homage to a state that seems to be bursting at the seams with National Parks, and that state would be ... [REDACTED BY ORDER…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Tuesday, September 15, 2026 — All Cohosts Present and Accounted For, Suh!
Season 17 Episode 66
There was cause for much celebration at JAMDTNYTC HQ, as the J of the aforementioned podcast made her triumphant return to the studio. She chose an …
1 month, 4 weeks ago