Wednesday, August 4, 2021
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
Tuesday, August 3, 2021
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
Monday, August 2, 2021
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
Sunday, July 25, 2021
A tough Sunday, with a spectacular, dare we say stellar theme, but some really tricky naticks -- 35A, Japanese beer brand, KIRIN, versus 31D, Sharing maternal lines, ENATIC (yikes!), and 109A, Wine th...
26 Heinä 202116min
Saturday, July 24, 2021
A challenging Saturday (of course!) crossword, with some major obscurisms lurking in the grid. Certainly 29D, Happenstance, cutely, COINKYDINK, and 20A, Hallux, less formally, BIGTOE, qualify, as, at ...
25 Heinä 202111min
Friday, July 23, 2021
We wouldn't say that Jean CRUSHEDIT, but she did turn in a STOUT performance. Mike's effort, meanwhile, wouldn't win any SPEEDTEST, but he did manage to finish with a SHRED of dignity intact, his str...
24 Heinä 202113min
Thursday, July 22, 2021
Hip, hip, hooray, it's a crossword about hips ... two of them to be precise, it's very hip. Jean made short order of today's crossword, as she turned in a perfect 28 minute time, whereas the crossword...
23 Heinä 202112min
Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Today's crossword was a shocker! Traditionally, the New York Times grids are designed so that answers can be no shorter than 3 letters and as a corollary no letter can be like, well, like the Z's at t...
22 Heinä 202111min
