Saturday, July 17, 2021

A slightly more difficult Monday than usual -- crunchier, as they say -- but that's to be expected when Alex Eaton-salners is at the helm. You know that trouble's ahead when one of the first clues, 2D...

10 Elo 20217min

Today's crossword puzzle was ... a puzzle, literally, with 5 shaded areas that when fitted together spelled out that homage to Kodak (maybe), PICTUREPERFECTMOMENTS. There was not a lot of humor in the...

9 Elo 202112min

There are many reasons to love today's crossword, and a new world's record for use of words containing GHTs is not the least of them. With a minimum of cultural references (Mike's bane), and the pun-...

8 Elo 202116min

Both Jean and Mike had issues with today's crossword - Jean missed class the day they covered the moons of Saturn (41D, Moon of Saturn, TETHYS), and Mike is utterly convinced that the only true 23D, D...

7 Elo 202114min

Today's crossword involves two animals, both clued as Hybrid creature of myth, that are either ancient and indeed mythical or possibly escapees from S.T.A.R. labs: MERMAID and CENTAUR. And these are ...

6 Elo 202111min

In today's episode, Jean talked about the ARTE of crossword solving, Mike reflects on a Donkey Kong called ACE, and both discuss the possibility of FGOTUS. All that and more awaits, so just download a...

5 Elo 20218min

A technical tour de force by Trip Payne, who managed to CORNERTHEMARKET on cool themes this week, by placing permutations of THEMARKET in the corners of the grid. (Be sure and check it out on xwordinf...

4 Elo 202111min

In today's episode, we learn of the origin of Stan, debate the merits of "eke by" versus "get by", and admire Nero's ego. For all the details, (or DEETS, as it has occasionally appeared in the New Yor...

3 Elo 20216min