April 22, 2023 - JUNEAUITES and NADERITES and NIXIEs, oh, my!

Today's puzzle is educational -- a primer for those of you who can't tell your Greek gods from your Roman ones., as well as entertaining -- what you'd expect if Steinberg was in the byline. We'd tell ...

19 Juli 202314min

A marvelous Monday crossword by Fulbright scholar (!) Alexander Liebeskind, and that genius shines through wherever you look in today's grid. There were (almost) impossible to pronounce answers, 66A, ...

18 Juli 202314min

An absolutely delightful Sunday crossword by Michael Schlossberg, brilliant clues everywhere you look, guaranteed to put a smile on your face. We have all the deets inside, so please subscribe (so you...

17 Juli 202315min

Jeff Chen is known for writing great crosswords and he is in excellent form today. Clues like 2D, Head of the bar, FOAM (not SOAP!), 36A, Word that can be described by changing its last letter to a P,...

16 Juli 202317min

Today's crossword, by Jonathan Kaufman, didn't faze Jean in the slightest, whereas Mike was almost done in by 16A, Drank discretely, HADANIP (not, as both Jean & Mike, and possibly most of humanity f...

15 Juli 202322min

Our co-hosts took wildly divergent routes in solving today's crossword, with Jean taking the highway and Mike taking a barely discernible PATH through dense woods to arrive at the same destination. So...

14 Juli 202317min

You know you're in good hands when the byline reads Brooke Husic and Brian Thomas, who between them have published 19 (Brooke) + 14 (Brian) = 33 NYTimes crosswords, no mean feat. To see why they keep...

13 Juli 202313min

Today's crossword by Aaron M. Rosenberg -- who bears an uncanny resemblance to our vision of Clark Kent -- was most assuredly not LACKINGVARIETY, as it had clues running the gamut from punny (3D, Run ...

12 Juli 202318min