Saturday, March 16, 2024 - Can't spell STROPHE? No worries, it's not a cataSTROPHE 🙄
After Friday's mental melee, today's crossword was slightly easier, but still not a walk in the park, not by a long stretch. It was a Saturday, designed to confuse and confound, and it did so in spades. We have all the details, as well as our JAMCOTWA (Jean And Mike Crossword Of The Week Award) winner, plus some awesome listener mail, so for all that, and more, we encourage you to subscribe (so you don't miss an episode), download, listen, learn, and laugh. Show note imagery: Where the ...
17 Mars 202423min
Thursday, March 14, 2024 - Happy π Day, or if the former was Greek to you, Happy 🥧 Day!
Today is Pi Day - 3/14 - and the NYTimes is celebrating in grand style (ok, perhaps not the entire newspaper, but certainly the crossword section). To see what happens when the gray lady lets down her hair, so to speak, be sure and check out today's podcast! Show note imagery: A helpful chart for anyone hoping to try their hand at chiromancy 🙄 We love feedback! Send us a text... Contact Info: We love listener mail! Drop us a line, crosswordpodcast@icloud.com. Also, we're on FaceBook, ...
15 Mars 202414min
Wednesday, March 24, 2024 - CHIWETELEJIOFOR, a great actor and an awesome crossword answer!
Today's crossword was the ideal middle-of-the-week puzzle; a fun but accessible theme, a smattering of debut answers and a host of intriguing clues. We have -- of course! -- all the deets inside, so do have a listen, and, as usual, let us know what you think! Show notes imagery: OSLO, showing just a few of its 40 islands and 350 lakes We love feedback! Send us a text... Contact Info: We love listener mail! Drop us a line, crosswordpodcast@icloud.com. Also, we're on FaceBook, so feel free to...
14 Mars 202415min
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - There's a bit of DRAMA in today's grid ... right there, 1D, DRAMA 😀
Andrew Kingsley and Garret Chalfin have teamed up to produce a fine Tuesday crossword, with some good clues, some great clues, and some awesome clues. In the latter category we have 35D, Show stoppers?, ADS 😀; 51A, Liquid-ATE, MELT 🙄; and 50D, Anonymous creator of a painting sold at auction that subsequently shredded itself, BANKSY 😀 😀 . An admirable crossword, we hereby declare it to be worth a full 5 squares on the JAMCR scale. Show note imagery: BANKSY's work of art, destroying its...
13 Mars 202417min
Monday, March 11, 2024 - A grid filled to the BRIM with great clues!
Today's crossword is by award winning (!) crossword constructor Rebecca Goldstein and Rachel Fabi, and the two have constructed a wonderful puzzle that is sure to whet your appetite for more of their work. The theme -- which will also whet your appetite -- is fine, but there were some other clues worth cheering. Allow us to point out, for example, 30A, One nickname for Elizabeth, ELLY; 9D, Genre for Da Brat or DaBaby, RAP; and 2D, US Soccer star, RAPINOE, to which we can only say 34D, C...
12 Mars 202414min
Sunday, March 10, 2024 - Not a hard-scrabble crossword ... but Scrabble *was* involved
Enrique Henestroza Anguiano and Matthew Stock have teamed up to rack 'em up, with a clever Scrabble-based theme. It briefly looked like today might been a four leaf clover of a crossword, a Sunday puzzle with a rebus: but in this case, the trick was to construct the rebus mentally, while writing only a single letter in the grid itself. It's complicated, but we've got the 411 on all of it, so dig into today's episode, and, as always, let us know what you think. Show note imagery: Sekhme...
11 Mars 202415min
Saturday, March 9, 2024 - What's the cure for an INFODEMIC? A DIGITALDETOX!
A fine Saturday crossword by John Guzzetta -- and if that name seems familiar, that's perhaps because he has had 40 NYTimes crosswords published since 2012. Of those, 50% of them were Friday or Saturday puzzles, so he's definitely in his element here. Though themeless (as is tradition for a Saturday NYTimes crossword), there were of course many fine clues, which we dive into in today's episode. Beyond those, however, we would be remiss if we did not at least mention 27D, Concupiscent o...
10 Mars 202416min
Friday, March 8, 2024 - Yup, definitely a Friday crossword!
There were challenges galore in today's crossword, with the rockiest of rocky shoals cropping up in the southwest portion of the grid. There were so many great clues that it would take, oh, a 15x15 grid to list all of them, but here are a few (that didn't make it into the podcast): 13D, Butt of a joke?, WHOOPEECUSHION (ha!); 9D, Like the homes of roughly one in six Americans, rural (huh!); 45A, In, in the past, HEP (har!); and there were many, many more. In other news, we have a listen...
9 Mars 202417min
