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Back to SearchSaturday, July 22, 2023 - A crossword that'll have you doing CARTWHEELS 🤸♀️😉
Season 7 Episode 89
This, Robert Logan's second NYTimes Crossword, took him 17 months to complete! The end result, though, is a chef's kiss of a crossword, one that gives up its secrets gradually and grudgingly, with …
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Thursday, July 20, 2023 - Honk if you liked this crossword 🚗😉. Honk, honk!!
Season 7 Episode 88
A fiendishly clever crossword by Drew Schmenner, with a worthy theme -- that's not UPFORDEBATE -- that would've taxed even the great IBMWATSON. We loved it -- as you can tell from today's episode -- …
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Wednesday, July 19, 2023 - Go, Packers! Time for another THREEPEAT 😀
Season 7 Episode 87
As the week progresses, the NYTimes crosswords, by-and-large, get more difficult, and you can start to feel the friction on Wednesday, with clues like 37D, Kind of mark, SKID; 26A, "Ya dig?", FEELME …
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Tuesday, July 18, 2023 - DIONYSUS and BACCHUS walk into a bar ...
Season 7 Episode 86
Today's puzzle is educational -- a primer for those of you who can't tell your Greek gods from your Roman ones., as well as entertaining -- what you'd expect if Steinberg was in the byline. We'd tell…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Monday, July 17, 2023 - BORESOME -- in the grid and in...applicable 🙄
Season 7 Episode 85
A marvelous Monday crossword by Fulbright scholar (!) Alexander Liebeskind, and that genius shines through wherever you look in today's grid. There were (almost) impossible to pronounce answers, 66A,…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Sunday, July 16, 2023 - The Game is Afoot, and the Grid is *Amazing*
Season 7 Episode 84
An absolutely delightful Sunday crossword by Michael Schlossberg, brilliant clues everywhere you look, guaranteed to put a smile on your face. We have all the deets inside, so please subscribe (so yo…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Saturday, July 15, 2023 - ⚠️ Battlestations, it's a Jeff Chen Saturday Crossword!!⚠️
Season 7 Episode 83
Jeff Chen is known for writing great crosswords and he is in excellent form today. Clues like 2D, Head of the bar, FOAM (not SOAP!), 36A, Word that can be described by changing its last letter to a P…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Friday, July 14, 2023 - When solving a crossword, your spelling must be perrfect!" 🙄
Season 7 Episode 82
Today's crossword, by Jonathan Kaufman, didn't faze Jean in the slightest, whereas Mike was almost done in by 16A, Drank discretely, HADANIP (not, as both Jean & Mike, and possibly most of humanity …
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Thursday, July 13, 2023 - The name's BAUER, EDDIEBAUER
Season 7 Episode 81
Our co-hosts took wildly divergent routes in solving today's crossword, with Jean taking the highway and Mike taking a barely discernible PATH through dense woods to arrive at the same destination. S…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Wednesday, July 12, 2023 - Endure some DURIANS 😷
Season 7 Episode 80
You know you're in good hands when the byline reads Brooke Husic and Brian Thomas, who between them have published 19 (Brooke) + 14 (Brian) = 33 NYTimes crosswords, no mean feat. To see why they kee…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago