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Thursday, August 15, 2024 - Danger, Damon J. Gulczynski's in attack mode 😀 😀

Season 10 Episode 39

A deliciously tough crossword by a constructor whose puzzles skew towards that end of the spectrum -- one Damon J Gulczynski. One's perception of thi…

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Wednesday, August 14, 2024 - Another fabulous crossword by Samuel A. Donaldson

Season 10 Episode 38

Samuel Donaldson has had 41 crosswords published in the NYTimes, for reasons that are made abundantly clear in today's puzzle - a terrific theme, cri…

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Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - Some great books to RETURNTO

Season 10 Episode 37

Benjamin Panico, in his debut NYTimes crossword (yay!), has put together an excellent puzzle in which he managed to cram 6, count 'em, 6 novels by TO…

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Monday, August 12, 2024 - Some cryptic clues on cryptids 😎

Season 10 Episode 36

This is Shaun Phillips' second NYTimes crossword, and it has only been about 2 weeks since his last one, so clearly he is on a tear! This was a tad e…

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Sunday, August 11, 2024 - Paging Dr. WELBY!

Season 10 Episode 35

A most definitely above average Sunday crossword by Caryn Robbins, thanks to an artful, inspired theme and a few crunchy clues to chew on. We have al…

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Saturday, August 10, 2024 - MATRYOSHKA, hard to spell, harder to work into casual conversation 😀

Season 10 Episode 34

Today's crossword was Spencer Leach's fifth, and it is a gem. The clues are challenging, novel (there are 7 debuts) and delightfully deceiving. Defin…

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Friday, August 9, 2024 - Another Hemant Mehta spectacular!

Season 10 Episode 33

Hemant Mehta has written some dazzling late-week crosswords -- and this is one of them. The clues are so well done, tautly written, prone to make you…

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Thursday, August 8, 2024 - Oh, boy, it's an OBOE 🙄

Season 10 Episode 32

It's Rebus Thursday, not an official holiday as far as we can tell, but a) it is Thursday, and b) the grid is riddled with rebuses (rebusae?), so the…

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Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - Hold the homophone!

Season 10 Episode 31

For those of you entranced with the subtleties of English pronunciation (rules? where we're going, we don't need rules!), have we got a crossword for…

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Tuesday, August 6, 2024 - EAP! It's Edgar Allan Poe 😀

Season 10 Episode 30

If numbers tell the tale, then Daniel Raymon's favorite day of the week is ... Variety, as he has created 18 variety crosswords for the NYTimes. By t…

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