
Tuesday, December 21, 2023 - Baba Ghanouj and PITA, the perfect combo!
A fine Tuesday crossword by Seth Weinberg, with an LOL theme that will make you, well, LOL. As usual, deets inside! This marks our last episode of the year -- we're taking time off to recharge the l...
20 Dec 202316min

Monday, December 18, 2023 - A quite quastonishing quantity of Q's 🙄
There's a queue-full of Q's in today's crossword, but it's all in a good quase, er, we mean cause, to wit, a delightfulful theme that revolves around that ubiquitous symbol of 21st century tech, the Q...
19 Dec 202311min

Sunday, December 17, 2023 - 🎶 Like a bridge, over trouuuuuuuuubled waters ... 🎶
Today's opus was most definitely not an abridged crossword, but the full 21x21 marvel that is the NYTimes Sunday puzzle -- and indeed, considering that it had (wait for it...) rebuses, it could plausi...
18 Dec 202321min

Saturday, December 16, 2023 - Definitely a TOPRATED (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️) crossword!
Today's crossword is TOPRATED, and that's not just because it has TOPRATED in the grid, but because of a panoply of charming clues and intriguing answers that caught our fancy (although not quite as m...
17 Dec 202314min

Friday, December 15, 2023 - Stop us if you've heard this one ... A NEPHALIST, a PHILATELIST and a CRUCIVERBALIST walk into a bar ... 🙄🍷
A challenging but not insurmountable Friday crossword by Alex Tomlinson - his debut! - with a whopping 8 debut answers. We cover all but 2 of them in today's episode, omitting only 2D, One whose work ...
16 Dec 20238min

Thursday, December 11, 2023 - Can you hear me? Can you hear me now?
It is not clear how many Zoom calls Esha Datta, author of today's crossword (her debut!) has been in, but we're willing to bet LOADS of them, based on their (very clever) theme. Beyond that, there wer...
15 Dec 202318min

Wednesday, December 13, 2023 - This crossword is *not* cray cray, it's great great 😀
A nice mid-week crossword by veteran cruciverbalist Alex Eaton-Salners (this is in fact his 64th), and it is as refreshing as a glass of cool spring water, thanks to a theme that has everything to do ...
14 Dec 202314min

Tuesday, December 13, 2023 - LAXLY, finalist in the "most difficult word to work into casual conversation" contest
Peter Gordon must be a real MENSCH, and that's not just because he managed to slip that word into today's crossword, as part of a very amusing themed answer. There's a lot more magic happening in the ...
13 Dec 202317min





















