Wednesday, October 23, 2024 - A crossword with a lot of SPARK and FIRE
This was a lovely Wednesday crossword by veteran cruiciverbalists Matthew Stock and Brooke Husic, with a theme guaranteed to warm the cockles of academics everywhere, and inspire everybody else to Goo...
24 Loka 202414min
Tuesday, October 22, 2024 - SPACE ... above us, around us and ... in the grid!
This is Barbara Lin's 14th NYTimes crossword since 2020, and to see why she keeps getting them published, just take a look at today's puzzle. We did, and are glad of it. Deets inside, as well as Jean'...
23 Loka 202412min
Monday, October 21, 2024 - Monday's crossword is fair of face, or, er, something like that ...
This was a straightforward crossword, as Monday's are wont to be, although one of our number had several mistakes that they had to ferret out before getting to the happy music. In the interests of hei...
22 Loka 202410min
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - Movie madness!
EGAD this was a fine crossword, it deserves some sort of AWARD for its EPIC themed clues and answers. There was NOTABIT of crosswordese in the grid, just ALOT of great cruciverbial magic. In short, we...
21 Loka 202418min
Saturday, October 19, 2024 - NUUK, one cool capital city!
Today's crossword was filled with amusing and tricky clues, like 46D, "Charms strike the sight, but _______ wins the soul": Alexander Pope, MERIT; and a nice combo, 7D, Branching point, NODE, and 8D, ...
20 Loka 202417min
Friday, October 18, 2024 - This crossword was a GAS, definitely nothing to BOOAT!
This is Jesse Cohn's second NYTimes crossword, and it is an absolute delight. You'll be giving so many standing ovations for his fabulous cluing that you'll probably close your rings before you solve ...
19 Loka 202415min
Thursday, October 17, 2024 - The INTEL is that this is a pretty good crossword!
August Lee-Kovach has made a fine Thursday crossword for our edification. The theme would've been an easy sell to editors, since it was all about ... editing! Other fine clues (not mentioned in the po...
18 Loka 202417min
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 - Un excelente crossword!
The title of today's episode is a very subtle hint to today's theme, a nice bit of work by Hanh Huynh, his third NYTimes crossword in a year. Beyond those clues covered in the podcast, we'd also like ...
17 Loka 20249min
