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Friday, January 5, 2024 - EASYREAD, tricky solve!
Season 8 Episode 42
A tough, tough Friday crossword by David P. Williams -- his third, and his third to use the exact same grid pattern! The grid was daunting, with many…
2 years ago
Thursday, January 4, 2023 - SOBE, or not SOBE ... yup, it was SOBE 😀
Season 8 Episode 41
An excellent Thursday crossword, marred by an unfortunate technical glitch. The themed clues contained underlined letters, but the underscores did no…
2 years ago
Wednesday, January 3, 2023 - Another ICONIC NYTimes Crossword 😍
Season 8 Episode 40
Any crossword that works both FIE and IRONHORSE into the grid deserves our respect and gratitude, and we give it freely to this fine opus by Jared Go…
2 years ago
Tuesday, January 2, 2024 - We're baaaaaaack!
We are back, after a brief holiday on the Riviera (or it might've been Green Bay, there seemed to be an inordinate amount of ice for the Riviera), an…
2 years ago
December 20, 2023 - January 1, 2024 - Break time!
Season 8 Episode 38
We are taking a break between now (aka December 21, 2023) and the new year (partially because we've been displaced from our recording studio by a gan…
2 years ago
Tuesday, December 21, 2023 - Baba Ghanouj and PITA, the perfect combo!
Season 8 Episode 37
A fine Tuesday crossword by Seth Weinberg, with an LOL theme that will make you, well, LOL. As usual, deets inside!
This marks our last episode of the…
2 years ago
Monday, December 18, 2023 - A quite quastonishing quantity of Q's 🙄
Season 8 Episode 36
There's a queue-full of Q's in today's crossword, but it's all in a good quase, er, we mean cause, to wit, a delightfulful theme that revolves around…
2 years ago
Sunday, December 17, 2023 - 🎶 Like a bridge, over trouuuuuuuuubled waters ... 🎶
Season 8 Episode 35
Today's opus was most definitely not an abridged crossword, but the full 21x21 marvel that is the NYTimes Sunday puzzle -- and indeed, considering th…
2 years ago
Saturday, December 16, 2023 - Definitely a TOPRATED (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️) crossword!
Season 8 Episode 34
Today's crossword is TOPRATED, and that's not just because it has TOPRATED in the grid, but because of a panoply of charming clues and intriguing ans…
2 years ago
Friday, December 15, 2023 - Stop us if you've heard this one ... A NEPHALIST, a PHILATELIST and a CRUCIVERBALIST walk into a bar ... 🙄🍷
Season 9 Episode 33
A challenging but not insurmountable Friday crossword by Alex Tomlinson - his debut! - with a whopping 8 debut answers. We cover all but 2 of them in…
2 years ago