Monday, January 15, 2024 - Beware the grampus!
A crossword that's bound to tickle your fancy, a statement that will appear quite droll once you've heard the podcast / soused out the theme. Beyond the clues already mentioned on the podcast, we'd li...
16 Jan 202412min
Sunday, January 14, 2023 - A SUPERDUPER Sunday crossword!
John Kugelman, cybersecurity expert and crossword constructor extraordinaire, has outdone himself with an extremely punny Sunday opus. INAILEDIT shows up in the grid, and may also have reflected his ...
15 Jan 202422min
Saturday, January 13, 2024 - Somewhere between new and crescent, it's ... BABYMOON!
An easier than usual Saturday crossword (for at least one of our cohosts, no prizes for guessing who!), which means that -- according to the Law of Conservation of Crossword Difficulty -- Sunday is go...
14 Jan 202414min
Friday, January 12, 2024 - The NYTimes Crossword - the *perfect* way to while away a snow day
A lively Friday crossword by Hemant Mehta, with a fusillade of clever and/or educational clues guaranteed to delight the diligent solver. We cover most of them in today's episode, along with a fascina...
13 Jan 202420min
Thursday, January 11, 2024 - X marks the spot!
Today's puzzle, by Damon Gulczynski, has an ingenious and well-disguised theme: and thanks to the revealer's position in the bottom-right, we are kept in suspense / befuddlement, until the very end --...
12 Jan 20247min
Wednesday, January 10, 2024 - GOBI, the world's most aptly named desert!
There was one TYPEO in today's grid, but that was by design and quite amusing (20A, What's tolerated by every body?), as we can count on one hand (without resorting to any phalanges chicanery) the num...
11 Jan 202415min
Tuesday, January 9, 2024 - OCTOPI, the Einsteins of the depths! 🐙
This is Adam Wagner's 18th crossword, and it was a doozy, with 4 debut answers, including both cohosts' favorite, 6D, Exploded, WENTKABOOM. The grid was replete with many other less explosive but st...
10 Jan 202418min
Monday, January 8, 2024 - TEDLASSO wins big ... in the NYTimes crossword?
TEDLASSO might've been shutout at the Golden Globes, but he won big by appearing in today's NYTimes crossword, thanks to Nate Cardin, constructor and (by his own account) TEDLASSO fan. We suspect that...
8 Jan 202413min
