April 22, 2023 - JUNEAUITES and NADERITES and NIXIEs, oh, my!

A straightforward Monday for those schooled in the spelling of dinosaur names; a slightly more arduous task for those who were not. Regardless, it's the journey that counts, and to hear how ours went,...

5 Apr 20227min

We are back after a brief unexpected hiatus due to some logistical problems. And what a crossword to come back to! Jean persevered, Mike went, like 7A, "... and it flopped", PFFT, as his usually near-...

4 Apr 202211min

In today's war between velar nasal and alveolar nasal, good ol' al was the victor, as many g's were sacrificed in the making of today's pun-riddled grid. Some of the clues were quite fresh: 19A, Pres...

31 Mar 202211min

Today's crossword is right down to business, and while the more pedantic might argue that it is, technically speaking, right across to business, we not only stand by our statement but maintain that it...

30 Mar 202214min

A fairly straightforward Monday: Jean came tantalizingly close to breaking the 5-minute barrier, while Mike ... did not. For the deets, as in who knew what when, and who thought that CANON should be s...

29 Mar 20228min

We're back! After a week on the French Riviera (or possibly Green Bay, they are easily confused). Speaking of confused, today's crossword was a doozie, with a Pyramid, a Pharaoh, and much, much, more....

28 Mar 202211min

Saturdays are generally regarded as the toughest crosswords of the week, and today's is an exemplar: but like the best of the Saturdays, it does not flood the grid with cultural references, but just u...

20 Mar 202216min

Today's crossword was a toughie. Both Jean & Mike flailed about in the northwest corner, where some deliciously EVIL (and we say that in the best possible sense of the word, and also because EVIL happ...

19 Mar 202214min