Sunday, May 8, 2022 - Bravo, bravo! A fun, fun Sunday crossword!

Lisa Senzel and Jeff Chen have teamed up to create a mind- (or at least answer-) bending crossword, which if you're familiar with DROPLEAFTABLES will be relatively straightforward, but if not ... be f...

7 Aug 202318min

An eminently and appropriately challenging Saturday crossword by veteran cruciverbalist John Guzzetta, this is his 39th NYTimes appearance, and practice makes perfect, which basically describes today'...

6 Aug 202314min

A brilliant Friday crossword by Brandon Koppy, no theme (of course: Fridays are almost always themeless), but a grid that was chockfull of clever clues/answers, such as 58A, Asteroids system, ATARI; 2...

5 Aug 202313min

The perfect blend of entertaining, educational, and 'ead scratching, today's crossword has something for everyone. A theme that makes you reach for it (in both senses of the phrase!); some thought pro...

4 Aug 202320min

A breezy Wednesday crossword by Barbara Lin, with a theme that is vaguely related to Sunday's, and yet ... entirely different. You'll see what we mean when you listen to today's podcast, which we hig...

3 Aug 202312min

Today's crossword has a distinctly outdoorsy feel to it, and we'll give you tree guesses as to why. [Hint: there are no typos in the previous sentence, but a very bad pun] Besides our usual witty ban...

2 Aug 202317min

The inventiveness of the NYTimes stable of cruciverbalists never ceases to amaze, and today's crossword is one reason why -- exhibit A, we might say, if we were in court, which ... nope, we're going t...

1 Aug 202311min

A fun, not particularly difficult crossword ... excerpt for the parts that were 😀. Jean got through it fairly quickly, only hung up on TIC and TAC v. TIT and TAT; Mike had to labor longer, the lacun...

31 Jul 202320min