Podcast Episodes

Sunday, March 3, 2024 - Three, two, one, blastoff! 🚀

Season 8 Episode 98

You can always count on Hoang-Kim Vu to produce a splendid crossword, and today you can also count on him to ... count, because that's the theme: cou…

2 years, 3 months ago

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Saturday, March 2, 2024 -The Book of 1001 SAT Words will be arriving FORTHWITH, or at least posthaste 😀

Season 8 Episode 97

Natan Last has constructed 39 crosswords for the NYTimes, and this latest one shows exactly why the NYTimes keeps coming back for more - the clues ar…

2 years, 3 months ago

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Friday, March 1, 2024 - In like a lion ...

Season 8 Episode 96

A roaringly good Friday crossword to end the business week! There was no theme, but there were a host of awesome clues, including: 38A, Shade akin to…

2 years, 3 months ago

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Thursday, February 29, 2024 - Leaping lizards, it's a leap day crossword!

Season 8 Episode 95

Whether this was in honor of Leap Day or not (only Will knows, and he's not saying), today's crossword was extra special, most notably because of som…

2 years, 3 months ago

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Wednesday, February 28, 2024 - Finally, a crossword that answers that burning question: WHATITSALLABOUT?

Season 8 Episode 94

A debut crossword by Greg Snitkin, but you wouldn't know it based on the quality of today's puzzle. The theme was terrif, and was abetted by a passel…

2 years, 3 months ago

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Tuesday, February 27, 2024 - ;-), meet your grandchild, 😉

Season 8 Episode 93

A lot of INK went into today's crossword, in such answers as SLINKYDOG, WINKYFACE and 5 (!) more of that ink, er, we mean ilk, 😀. Numerous clues got …

2 years, 3 months ago

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Monday, February 26, 2024 - NAMASTE!

Season 8 Episode 92

This is Joe Marquez's second NYTimes crossword (congrats, Joe!) and a very nice piece of work it is. Several clues had a wry twist to them (and we ar…

2 years, 3 months ago

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Sunday, February 25, 2024 - Sunday is Punday

Season 8 Episode 91

Once again the puns come thick and fast, so if you like puns, well, step this way and download this episode, because it's teeming with them, seven at…

2 years, 3 months ago

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Saturday, February 24, 2024 - We're willing to let TIGONS be TIGONS 🙄

Season 8 Episode 90

A tough but fair Saturday crossword, and, coincidentally (since they always solve independently), both Jean and Mike ended up at the same spot, 20A, …

2 years, 3 months ago

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Friday, February 23, 2024 - CHEESEDIP and HAUTECUISINE, together at last 😀 😀

Season 8 Episode 89

Jean and Mike had entirely different solving experiences tackling today's crossword, a fine effort by Larry Snyder. Jean made short work of it, but M…

2 years, 3 months ago

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