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Back to SearchMonday, July 24, 2023 - ELECTRO, a shocking Spider-Man villain
Season 7 Episode 91
A gentle Monday crossword, just the right degree of difficulty, that provided Jean with the opportunity to discuss the difference between salt shaker…
2 years, 7 months ago
Sunday, July 23, 2023 - A grid with OOMPH, FTW!
Season 7 Episode 90
A winning Sunday crossword by Chandi Deitmer, with a bevy of sound aural puns forming a brilliant theme, amid a sea of other fine clues, including th…
2 years, 7 months ago
Saturday, 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 gi…
2 years, 7 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 lo…
2 years, 7 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 lik…
2 years, 7 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'…
2 years, 7 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 w…
2 years, 7 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 hav…
2 years, 7 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 c…
2 years, 7 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…
2 years, 7 months ago