Friday, October 20, 2023 - LIBERALARTS are *everywhere* (including in today's grid!)
A very nice Friday crossword by Jacob McDermott, with some awesome clues, and no crosswordese in sight. A few sample works, 15D, Oh, the humanities!, LIBERALARTS 😀;; 27D, "Heck, yeah!", DARNTOOTIN 😀...
21 Okt 20239min
Thursday, October 19, 2023 - That VIBIST is giving off really good vibes 😀
A challenging Thursday crossword, thanks to the unexpected appearance of a boatload of rebuses (or, as we Latin scholars like to call them, rebusae). For themed crosswords, especially towards the en...
20 Okt 202319min
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - Be prepared to BEAMAZED, because this crossword? ITSMAGIC!
An absolutely magical crossword, thanks to (possibly) aspiring magician, and (most definitely) adept cruciverbalist Joseph Gangi. Most of the grid was straightforward, but there were definitely some ...
19 Okt 20239min
Tuesday, October 17, 2023 - Fun to say, but almost impossible to YEET a Yeti 🙄
A DDDelightful Tuesday crossword by Dominic Grillo, who managed to inject a whole slew of D's into the grid, and remove virtually all "crosswordese", in a tautly written puzzle with a highly amusing t...
18 Okt 202316min
Monday, October 16, 2023 - This was a fine crossword, BYGUM
A pleasing Monday crossword by Michael Lieberman and Andrea Carla Michaels - a little crunchier than most Mondays, but a pleasant solve nonetheless, with an amusing hunk-related theme -- deets inside...
17 Okt 202312min
Sunday, October 15, 2023 - The PLAINTRUTH is that this crossword may leave you with a GLAZEDEXPRESSION 😀 🍩
If you like donuts, you'll love today's crossword, as the grid is teeming with them. Beyond those, there were a number of novel clues -- a lucky 13 (!), in fact, were making their debut in the NYTimes...
16 Okt 202322min
Saturday, October 14, 2023 - Ah, that delicious aroma of PANZEROTTI!
Today's crossword is a rare bird - a Saturday crossword with a theme. The theme is not particularly difficult (nothing like Thursday's missing OP pairs, for example), but it turned out to be instrumen...
14 Okt 202317min
Friday, October 13, 2023 - This crossword is a real SCREAMO 😀
Today's crossword was a cruciverbial masterpiece, with a stream of LOL answers that seemed to go ONANDON. Beyond those delightful gems that we cover in today's episode, we'd like to note a few other h...
14 Okt 202316min
