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Tuesday, November 14, 2023 - A crossword guaranteed to inspire some wishful thinking
Season 9 Episode 3
A nifty Tuesday crossword by Matthew Linzer, with a remarkable theme that we wish we could talk about here ... oh, wait, we just did 😀. Precisely why…
2 years, 1 month ago
Monday, November 13, 2023 - This crossword is definitely worth a SOU ... and more!
Season 9 Episode 2
A pleasing Monday crossword, a debut by Benjamin Fink, that asks that burning question, CANYOUBELIEVEIT?. The answer is yes, this was a Monday crossw…
2 years, 1 month ago
Sunday, November 12, 2023 - A crossword with CHIASMUS, DADGUMIT, and SALBANDO in the grid? What a GAS!
Season 9 Episode 1
A scintillating Sunday crossword courtesy of Garrett Chalfin, with a gloriously serpentine theme, and an array of eye-opening clues. For example, 85A…
2 years, 1 month ago
Saturday, November 11, 2023 - Mountebanks and the Capulets? Yup, we'd like a MULLIGAN on that title!
Season 8 Episode 100
Today's puzzle is a tautly constructed Saturday crossword, with just 58 words -- not quite few enough for the Guinness Book of World Records, but ge…
2 years, 2 months ago
Friday, November 10, 2023 - Smoking a chesterfield, while wearing a chesterfield, and reclining on a chesterfield? It *can* be done!!
Season 8 Episode 99
A fine Friday crossword by Kate Hawkins - her 12th in the NYTimes - and it hits the sweet spot - not too easy, not too hard, but juuuuust right. We a…
2 years, 2 months ago
Thursday, November 9, 2023 - This crossword was AOK!
Season 8 Episode 98
A (surprising) crossword by Simeon Siegel, most noteworthy for a profusion of parentheses in the grid, all part of an intricate theme that we delve i…
2 years, 2 months ago
Wednesday, November 8, 2023 - Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's ... a TRAPEZIST! 🎪
Season 8 Episode 97
A slightly crunchier-than-usual Wednesday, but a wry theme and memorable clues made it all worth while. Beyond those noted in the podcast, we'd like …
2 years, 2 months ago
Tuesday, November 7, 2023 - A Ttttttterrific Tttttttttuesday Crossword!
Season 8 Episode 96
As the episode title almost surely gave away -- it was a bit of a ttttttteaser, one might say -- today's theme involved the 20th letter of the alphab…
2 years, 2 months ago
Monday, November 6, 2023 - AAH, what a crossword!
Season 8 Episode 95
Today's crossword was crunchy - the clues were just a tad more difficult than usual, a consequence, perhaps, of a particularly demanding theme (deets…
2 years, 2 months ago
Sunday, November 5, 2023 - This crossword's DABOMB, but it still *might* leave you TUCKEREDOUT
Season 8 Episode 94
Jean ACED today's crossword, but Mike just DIDOK, although if it is true that you learn from your mistakes, he is now officially a super genius thank…
2 years, 2 months ago