Tuesday, January 14, 2025 - Today's crossword? WHATATREAT!
This was a very entertaining Tuesday crossword by Lance Enfinger, with some thought-provoking clues such as 40A, News of an alien landing, probably, HOAX (probably??); 51A, Response in a game of Battl...
15 Jan 202517min
Monday, January 13, 2025 - Didst thou enjoyth said crossword? We certainly didith 😀
We start off the work week with a fine debut crossword by Adam Levav -- congrats, Adam!! We particularly enjoyed this puzzle because the theme involved our favorite ENGLISH variant, MIDDLEENGLISH. Eve...
14 Jan 202515min
Sunday, January 12, 2025 - Not puns are knot allowed ... or something like that 🙄
Today's crossword was by Jeffrey Martinovic, a mechanical engineering student at Western University in London, Ontario (go JW! -- yes, that's the name of their mascot, no word on whether they were try...
13 Jan 202521min
Saturday, January 11, 2025 - Ryan McCarty dials it up to 12!!
Today's crossword was a Saturday crossword, and that means tough; it was also by Ryan McCarty, which means, tough bordering on impossible. But not unfair; the clues were deliciously difficult, but -- ...
12 Jan 202523min
Friday, January 10, 2025 - Robert Logan hits out of the ballpark with crossword # 5!
This was an excellent Friday crossword - not particularly difficult, both cohosts got through it rather expeditiously - but the clues were just fabulous. We've gone through most of them in today's epi...
11 Jan 202518min
Thursday, January 9, 2025 - A NATO-themed crossword? Neato!! 😀 😀
This was a fun and challenging Thursday crossword by David P. Williams, his sixth for the NYTimes, deftly edited by the indomitable Will Shortz. The theme was very helpful, providing a distinct tactic...
10 Jan 202518min
Wednesday, January 8, 2024 - ARROYO, fun to say, fun to spell, *essential* to solving today's crossword!
Today's crossword, by Laura Dershewitz, was her third for the NYTimes, and it was grand. Both cohosts found it a little crunchier (i.e., tougher) than usual, Mike more so than Jean, stymied as he too ...
9 Jan 202519min
Tuesday, January 7, 2025 - OOHBABY this was an awesome crossword! 😀
Dana Edwards has written two NYTimes crosswords, and both have been uniformly excellent. This one had an ingenious theme to it (not that his first was a slouch, but this one just had a little extra sp...
8 Jan 202519min
