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
Sunday, June 26, 2022 - Argh, beware, SHIPMATES, this here be a SALTY crossword
If you like movies, and you like puns, you'll love today's puzzle, which is teeming with them. Who can resist simultaneously giggling and groaning at 61A, Staunch dedication to one's upper leg exercis...
27 Jun 202211min
Saturday, June 25, 2022 - TAQUERIA mockingbird??
A fine Saturday crossword by Adam Aaronson. Jean tore through it so quickly that her keyboard melted, whereas Mike's keyboard was in no danger whatsoever, except from a mild fist pounding from time to...
26 Jun 202214min
Friday, June 24, 2022 - A grid that's AHUM with with great SPIRIT
A great Friday crossword by Sophia Maymudes and Margaret Seikel: the clues were crisp, the answers rare if not unique, and the crosswordese meter was reading just about 0. A grid with the likes of SOR...
25 Jun 202212min
Thursday, June 23, 2022 - ACME rides again!
An ingenious theme in today's crossword, an anti-rebus -- instead of multiple letters scrunched into one square, we have two letters expanding out of ... nothing, just like the Big Bang (although not ...
24 Jun 202214min
