Saturday, May 8, 2025 - Joe Deeney, the Houdini of crossword constructors đđ
Joe Deeney has created a daunting looking Saturday grid -- there are oodles of 4-stack answers, and as an ADDEDBONUS, a pinwheel in the center with very few exits into the rest of the puzzle. The clue...
9 Mar 20256min
Friday, March 7, 2025 - MOVIEMAGIC, on the big screen, and in this tiny grid đ
Today's crossword was a great mental workout, replete with fine, fabulously deceptive clues -- just the kind that you hope for on a Friday. For example, we had 36A, A real no-name, ANON (of course!); ...
8 Mar 20259min
Thursday, March 6, 2025 - Three (Slightly Belated) Cheers for ALYRAISMAN! đ€žââïž
At least one of our cohosts wasn't quite on the same wavelength as today's constructor, Kiran Pandey: the clues and answers just felt a wee bit ... out of sync. Still, professional that they were (in ...
7 Mar 202519min
Wednesday, March 5, 2025 - Happy ... Halloween??
This was a spookily fun crossword by Rebecca Goldstein, who we are fairly certain won the ORCA Constructor of the Year Award sometime in the not too distant past -- 2024, we read on the internet -- fo...
6 Mar 202513min
Tuesday, March 4, 2025 - Announcing the discovery of the world's first Chameleon Wordâąïž
This was a fine Tuesday-level crossword, the fourth (on the 4th!) for Hanh Huynh. The theme shone, the rest of the fill was quite good, and the end result was, as you will hear in today's episode, hig...
5 Mar 202517min
Monday, March 3, 2025 - Vroom, vroom!
If you didn't know anything about today's constructor, you'd likely conclude, as did we, that this was a fine Monday crossword. But then, if you discovered that the constructor was 13 years old, you m...
4 Mar 20258min
Sunday, March 2, 2025 - Today's puzzle, brought to you in Crossword-Colorâąïžđ đ
Even a casual glance at today's grid will reveal that something's up - seven vertical colored lines that, unsurprisingly, play a huge role in today's theme. The cost of that theme was complexity, but ...
3 Mar 202522min
Saturday, March 1, 2025 - Hello, March!
March reputedly comes in like a lion, and today's crossword does the same -- parts of it are ferocious, and it seems to have lots of claws. OK, that last bit might not be true, but it certainly was a ...
2 Mar 202515min
