Monday, July 4th, 2022 - Go, ROYALS!
Jean's favorite team -- the Kansas City ROYALS -- gets into the grid, as did Mike's favorite DC (and MARVEL!) supervillain -- ARCLIGHT -- so that's yet another cause for celebration, beyond, of course...
5 Jul 20228min
Sunday, July 3, 2022 - Grammargrams, get your red hot grammargrams, right here!
Today's fine crossword by Tom McCoy featured grammargrams, a concept so rare that even Google couldn't find it, but thanks to WordPlay (the NYTimes Crossword column) we know that it's a real thing. Yo...
4 Jul 202215min
Saturday, July 2, 2022 - To be clear, a HEXAHEDRA is not a Harry Potter spell
A tough-ish Saturday crossword by Evan Kalish, with clues like 51A, Verb whose past tense form is an anagram of its present tense, EAT (that took a while!); 60A, Assign new keyboard shortcuts to, REMA...
3 Jul 20228min
Friday, July 1, 2022 - Shall we talk about the crossword? PRAYDO
A fine Friday effort by Christina Iverson and Caitlin Reid, although both of our dynamic duo (solving, as usual, independently) spent more of their solve time looking for mistakes than filling in the ...
2 Jul 202216min
Thursday, June 30, 2022 - As a famous soothsayer once soothed, beware the I's of June -- or something like that
A brilliant Thursday crossword by Samuel A. Donaldson and Doug Peterson, that starts off -- as all great Thursday crosswords do -- by imbuing the solver with a sense of befuddlement and disbelief. The...
1 Jul 202215min
Wednesday, June 29, 2022 - Look, up there in the sky, it's a test, it's a blood type, it's half a great Swedish rock band, it's ... AB!
In today's exciting installment, we go through the 4 stages of Rebus Identification, as today's crossword provides an excellent example of a rebus-festooned-grid. [Full disclosure: we do get a small g...
30 Jun 202214min
Tuesday, June 22, 2022 - A True Treasure of a Tuesday!
A brilliant crossword by Scott Graham, all revolving around the twentieth letter of the English alphabet. Jean loved the implicit theme. Mike missed most of it, but in today's episode Jean sets him st...
29 Jun 202215min
Monday, June 27, 2022 - Hooray, it's the HOYAS!
You might want to wear shades when solving this crossword, and RUBIN a dollop of SPF -- for reasons that will become abundantly clear once you've done so (solved the crossword, with or without the sun...
28 Jun 202210min
