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Saturday, June 1, 2024 - The POSHEST crossword this week!
Season 9 Episode 80
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A splendid Saturday crossword wraps up our crossword-solving week. Saturdays are by tradition the hardest crossword of the wee…
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Friday, May 31, 2024 - We have a FIENDING for more Aidan Deshong crosswords!
Season 9 Episode 79
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This is a beaut of a debut by Aidan Deshong, a high school senior just about to graduate, and head off to Harvey Mudd. Perhaps…
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Thursday, May 30, 2024 - This crossword, like the answer to 22A, is WELLDONE
Season 9 Episode 78
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A very nice crossword by Royce Ferguson - his 4th for the NYTimes, and a Thursday debut. The theme was ingenious but not too d…
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Wednesday, May 29, 2024 - Bottoms Up!
Season 9 Episode 77
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While drinks played an essential part in today's grid, it seems unlikely that they were involved in its construction, based on…
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Tuesday, May 28, 2024 - EVIE Sands, in the grid and (hopefully) on your playlist!
Season 9 Episode 76
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A nice Tuesday crossword, and, as detailed in today's episode, one eight years in the making!! So, even though PERSEVERANCE is…
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Monday, May 27, 2024 - All rise, ELENA Kagan is in the grid!
Season 9 Episode 75
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It's hard not to GIVEPROPS to a crossword that has GIVEPROPS in the grid, so we're not even going to try: PROPS to Christopher…
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Sunday, May 26, 2024 - Look, up there in the sky ... it's a dude, it's a bro, no, it's a ... BRAH??
Season 9 Episode 74
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A straightforward Sunday puzzle by John Kugelman, this his 4th for the NYTimes, with a theme for which the word "cute" was inv…
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Saturday, May 25, 2024 - A splendid Saturday solve
Season 9 Episode 73
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This is David P. Williams' fourth NYTimes crossword, and interestingly all four have used the same grid, so apparently DPW has…
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Friday, May 24, 2024 - This crossword is TWICEASNICE
Season 9 Episode 72
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For your edification, we present our analysis of a nice -- in fact, twice as nice! -- crossword by Carolyn Davies Lynch that …
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Thursday, May 23, 2024 - Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive
Season 9 Episode 71
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We don't normally namedrop Shakespearean quotes, but we are inspired by today's highly twisty-turny theme that looks like it m…
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