Tuesday, November 18, 2025 - Avast, thar be JETSAM ahead, me hearties!🏴‍☠️

Joe Deeney's crosswords always seem to include a little extra spice, a little extra pizzazz: we present today's puzzle as an exemplar, and that's not just because we've been itching to use exemplar in a sentence 😀. As evidence, we have 59A, Timeless, to a poet, ETERNE; our favorite E. C. Segar heroine, 58D, Toondom's Olive, OYL; and the rarely seen 39A, Gets back together, REUNES. We have a Triplet Tuesday Contest, in which Mike attempts to atone for last time, when he momentarily...