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Season 7 Episode 25
A perfectly balanced mid-week crossword, with a clever theme, and some novel words/phrases -- 12A, Body of water between Sicily and Greece, IONIANSEA; 53D, Popular booth in New York's Times Square, T…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Tuesday, May 16, 2023 - INDOLENT - for those too lazy to spell otiosity 🙄
Season 7 Episode 24
Today's crossword is based on a suffusion of sneaky prefixes that underline the beauty, and the beautiful inconsistency, of the English language. Also, it's Tuesday, meaning it's time for yet another…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Monday, May 15, 2023 - 🎵 It's a SMALLWORLD after all 🎶
Season 7 Episode 23
A fun, font-dependent theme makes for an interesting Monday. The font-sizes are almost microscopic, so it may be time to break out that loupe and put it to the test.
In other news, we have a Triplet T…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Friday, May 12, 2023 - ETTA Candy is back ❤️
Season 7 Episode 22
A splendid Friday crossword by Enrique Henestroza Anguiano. Both your intrepid hosts, solving independently as always, found this to be a major struggle, with challenging but rewarding clues scattere…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Thursday, May 11, 2023 - Warning, physics ahead!
Season 7 Episode 21
A challenging Thursday crossword, with a great EINSTEINIAN theme, all revolving around that famous equation, EEQUALSMCSQUARED. Deets are inside, so download, have a listen, and let us know what you t…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Wednesday, May 10, 2023 - Look up ... look waaaaay up.
Season 7 Episode 20
If you like astronomy, you'll love today's crossword: it offers up some, um, heavenly cluing . The theme revolves (sorry) around a number of famous constellations, and the result is a very pleasing,…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - All we are saaaaaying, is give ☮️ a chance 🎶🎸
Season 7 Episode 19
A fun Tuesday crossword by Margaret Seikel, with a theme that involves (if you didn't already guess it from the title) a peace emoji. Besides our in depth analysis of this fine puzzle, today's episod…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Monday, May 8, 2023 - SAYCHEESE 🧀
Season 7 Episode 18
A debut crossword by Catherine Cetta, and a fine one it is, with a theme that'll make you want to smile, and fairly gentle cluing (as one would expect for a Monday). There were a few exceptions, incl…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Sunday, May 7, 2023 - Uh, oh, the SHIPOFTHESEUS has sprung a leak!
Season 7 Episode 17
A great Sunday crossword by Will Nediger, with a brilliant theme surrounded by an equally brilliant cast of supporting clues and answers. Will is a professional crossword constructor, and based on to…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Saturday, May 6, 2023 - SAMOA, a nation on the move 😀
Season 7 Episode 16
A remarkable Saturday crossword, not so much because of the clues - they were fabulous, as you would expect based on the NYTimes incredibly strict quality control - but because of the grid, a virtual…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago