Friday, September 29, 2023 - Beware the SUNDAYSCARIES!
A delightful Friday crossword by Malaika Handa, with some familiar clues, but not many, as befits a Friday. Some of our favorites include the most excellent 12A, Illegal product that's still made?, MO...
30 Sep 202319min
Thursday, September 28, 2023 - The key point about today's crossword involves ... keys!
Once again the NYTimes crossword typesetters are pushing the envelope, today by working musical staffs into the clues. They did a great job (er, except on the iPhone, where the staffs appeared as blac...
29 Sep 202319min
Wednesday, September 27, 2023 - NOAMCHOMSKY weighs in on "colorless green ideas" -- we kid you not!
It is reasonable to assume that any crossword that works NOAMCHOMSKY into the grid and the theme is going to be deep, and we're talking Mariana Trench complexity here, thanks to a splendid work by Sco...
28 Sep 202316min
Tuesday, September 26, 2023 - The McDonald's app better have a HAMBURGERMENU 😀
For those of you who have been hoarding tech terms like they're going out of style (which being tech terms, they will), now's your chance to haul them out, and for a good cause: to solve a great puzzl...
27 Sep 202320min
Monday, September 25, 2023 - This crossword's the living END!
It's not clear if the phrase "Queen of Mondays" has ever been applied to Lynn Lempel, but having written 73 crosswords for the first day of the work week (out of a whopping 101 of hers that have been ...
26 Sep 202313min
Sunday, September 24, 2023 - Joe Fagliano and Christina Iverson would like to tell you a story: once a pun a time ...
Today's crossword, by Joel Fagliano and Christina Iverson, is either, depending on your perspective, a magnificent collection of brilliant puns, or ... a magnificent collection of brilliant puns, ther...
25 Sep 202311min
Saturday, September 23, 2023 - AMIDALA and DARTH walk into a bar ...
A challenging Saturday crossword, at least for one of our dynamic duo, thanks in part to his confidence that McTwist was a delectable McDonald's treat. Ah, but today's crossword disabused him of that ...
24 Sep 202311min
Friday, September 22, 2023 - Let's get this straight ... there's a penguin in a bodice sipping a BUDICE?
An excellent Friday crossword - not particularly difficult, but filled with some delightful clues. For example, 38A, Country described in "One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has ...
23 Sep 202318min
