Thursday, August 25, 2022 - EREBUS (the deity, not the manufacturer!)

A great debut crossword by Helen Chen, with 6 debut answers - that's a lot of debuting (which spellcheck assures us is a real word). Apart from the clues covered in today's podcast, we cannot help but...

23 Sep 202213min

Matthew Stock, who seems to have a knack for quality crosswords, proves that assertion in today's puzzle, with an LOL theme, some fun clues and answers (2D, Jaunty words upon departing, IMOFF; 41A (wh...

22 Sep 202212min

An educational Tuesday crossword, at least for certainly one of our dynamic duo, with the other playing the role of educator on such diverse topics as the difference between octet and OCTAD, the ABC I...

21 Sep 202215min

A fun Monday crossword by Leslie Young and Andrea Carla Michaels - it's hard to resist a puzzle that slips both HAIR and HARE into the grid, and hard not to laugh out loud (we failed!) at clues like 2...

20 Sep 202212min

Remember all those mild threats that your parents might've used on you? Well, Katie Hale found all of them and squeezed them into today's grid (a Sunday, because phrases like DONTUSETHATTONEWITHME def...

19 Sep 202217min

A tougher Saturday crossword, although eminently fair and with some great clues. Consider, par exemple (as the French would say), 14D, The most well-known one is named for a Greek hero, TENDON (nice!)...

18 Sep 202218min

A fine Friday crossword by Juliana Tringali Golden, with arguably the most interesting clue of the month, 53D, Country where almost half the world's zippers are made, JAPAN (wow!). Of course, there we...

17 Sep 20229min

There are Thursday crosswords, and then there are Thursday crosswords. This is one of the latter, a master class in crossword construction, with challenging cluing and a spectacular theme. We have all...

16 Sep 202216min