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

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

The only thing that was 46A -- A piece of cake, SOEASY -- about this puzzle was, well, 46A. The rest of the grid was crackling with fiendishly clever and often quite arcane clues, such as 61A, Dead letter in a mail sorter's vernacular, NIXIE (woah!); 39D, One with an "If You Choose the Lesser of Two Evils -- You Are Still Choosing Evil" bumper sticker, perhaps", NADERITE (both clever, obscure, and in the running for longest-clue of the week award); and the delicious 48D, Positive restaurant r...

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Thursday, November 26, 2020

Thursday, November 26, 2020

For those of you LONGing for a good Thanksgiving Day crossword to sink your teeth into, metaphorically spelling, here you go! This wasn't a ROMP, but you didn't need to be a GURU to solve it either --...

27 Nov 202011min

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Feast your eyes on this fabulous Wednesday crossword by John Guzzetta and Jeff Chen (edited, as always, by Will Shortz). It included a WRY reversing-homonym theme, and a SLEW of clever clues that were...

26 Nov 20209min

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

A genuinely fun and funny crossword by Caitlin Reid. Any crossword that includes the clue 19A,"An orca is actually a dolphin?!", WHALEILLBEDARNED, deserves some sort of award. We give it a perfect 5 s...

25 Nov 20209min

Monday, November 23, 2020

Monday, November 23, 2020

A few challenges for the spelling-challenged -- DIDGERIDOO and MATZOH, to name two -- but other than that, ITLLDO (quite WELL, in fact). It did feature Jean's favorite musketeer, ARAMIS, as well as Mi...

24 Nov 20207min

Sunday, November 22, 2020

Sunday, November 22, 2020

A novel crossword, definitely not by the numbers, to round out our puzzle solving week. The theme involved adding up intersecting digits, which was a real HOOT. Jean found this slightly more difficult...

23 Nov 202018min

Saturday, November 21, 2020

Saturday, November 21, 2020

If you didn't get today's crossword, well, HAKUNA MATATA, NOLOSS. It was a Saturday, ERGO it was bound to be a bit of an OGRE. Some particularly memorable clues -- 54D, An expert on feet, POET, 9A, 1...

22 Nov 202014min

Friday, November 20, 2020

Friday, November 20, 2020

There are not a lot of BIGYUKS to be found in today's crossword, but there is a BARRAGE of obscure clues, including 6D, _________ Barnes, WNIT-winning basketball coach (ADIA), 43D, German leader after...

21 Nov 202016min

Thursday, November 19, 2020

Thursday, November 19, 2020

Cn y ndrstnd ths? f s, y mght hv lg p dng tdy's crsswrd! And for those of you who don't speak consonantese, what we wrote was "Can you understand this? If so, you might have a leg up doing today's cr...

20 Nov 202015min

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