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Saturday, March 16, 2024 - Can't spell STROPHE? No worries, it's not a cataSTROPHE 🙄

Season 9 Episode 10

After Friday's mental melee, today's crossword was slightly easier, but still not a walk in the park, not by a long stretch. It was a Saturday, desig…

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Thursday, March 14, 2024 - Happy π Day, or if the former was Greek to you, Happy 🥧 Day!

Season 9 Episode 9

Today is Pi Day - 3/14 - and the NYTimes is celebrating in grand style (ok, perhaps not the entire newspaper, but certainly the crossword section).  …

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Wednesday, March 24, 2024 - CHIWETELEJIOFOR, a great actor and an awesome crossword answer!

Season 9 Episode 8

Today's crossword was the ideal middle-of-the-week puzzle; a fun but accessible theme, a smattering of debut answers and a host of intriguing clues. …

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - There's a bit of DRAMA in today's grid ... right there, 1D, DRAMA 😀

Season 9 Episode 7

Andrew Kingsley and Garret Chalfin have teamed up to produce a fine Tuesday crossword, with some good clues, some great clues, and some awesome clues…

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Monday, March 11, 2024 - A grid filled to the BRIM with great clues!

Season 9 Episode 6

Today's crossword is by award winning (!) crossword constructor Rebecca Goldstein and Rachel Fabi, and the two have constructed a wonderful puzzle th…

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Sunday, March 10, 2024 - Not a hard-scrabble crossword ... but Scrabble *was* involved

Season 9 Episode 5

Enrique Henestroza Anguiano and Matthew Stock have teamed up to rack 'em up, with a  clever Scrabble-based theme. It briefly looked like today might …

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Saturday, March 9, 2024 - What's the cure for an INFODEMIC? A DIGITALDETOX!

A fine Saturday crossword by John Guzzetta -- and if that name seems familiar, that's perhaps because he has had 40 NYTimes crosswords published sinc…

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Friday, March 8, 2024 - Yup, definitely a Friday crossword!

Season 9 Episode 3

There were challenges galore in today's crossword, with the rockiest of rocky shoals cropping up in the southwest portion of the grid. There were so …

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Thursday, March 7, 2024 - J.B. Smoove, one smoove operator

Season 9 Episode 2

This is Joe O'Neill's very first NYTimes crossword, and it's a doozie, with the theme revolving around one of Robert Frost's most famous poems. Now "…

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Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - Nothing JERKY about this crossword ... except the JERKY 😀

Season 9 Episode 1

Brad Wiegmann has produced a fabulous Wednesday crossword, and for those keeping track this is the second crossword this week where the theme was on …

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