Sunday, July 20, 2025 - Famed mystery author ... Mary Westmacott???

Sunday, July 20, 2025 - Famed mystery author ... Mary Westmacott???

This was a fun crossword by Michael Schlossberg. The theme gave us an opportunity to -- at last! -- use the word "idiom" in a sentence without sounding like an idiot 🙄, and the clues gave us a chance to exercise our little grey cells (as Mary Westmacott (or, to be precise, the writer whose ALIAS was Mary Westmacott) would have put it). Among our favorite clues not heretofore mentioned were 55D, More than wanna, GOTTA (three cheers for colloquial English!); 66D, Mast attachment above a gaff, T...

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Friday, October 9, 2020

Friday, October 9, 2020

It's a fairly gentle Friday crossword and even though it took both Jean & Mike time to find footholds -- they had NOIDEA where to start initially -- they did manage to plow through it fairly quickly a...

10 Okt 202010min

Thursday, October 8, 2020

Thursday, October 8, 2020

What's all that HOOPLA about? This crossword, a most WORTHY effort by Francesca Goldston and Jeff Chen (Will Shortz, ed.). Jean's only serious snafu was imagining John Lennon ONACOD (as opposed to ONA...

9 Okt 202012min

Thursday, October 7, 2020

Thursday, October 7, 2020

We might be a TOUGHCROWD, but we certainly wouldn't begrudge a round of applause for this BUENO Wednesday crossword by Ross Trudeau, with several laugh out loud answers, including (especially) the the...

8 Okt 20207min

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Do we like the New York Times crossword? YESWEDO, in general, and this one in particular: we give it a 5 squares on the JAMCR scale.Today's Tip Tuesday, so be sure and listen in for some (hopefully, H...

7 Okt 202013min

Monday, October 5, 2020

Monday, October 5, 2020

A crossword to SOOTH: even CORONA shows up in a non-threatening way, in this gently themed, sparkling puzzle by Evan Mahnken (and it would sparkle even without the Kohi-i-NOOR diamond).We love feedbac...

6 Okt 20205min

Sunday, October 4, 2020

Sunday, October 4, 2020

A Sam Ezersky spectacular that Jean breezed through, DARNTOOTIN, but Mike thought was SOMETHINGELSE. For more details, listen to the intrepid duo's puzzle solving adventure right here.We love feedback...

5 Okt 202014min

Saturday, October 2, 2020

Saturday, October 2, 2020

Jean gets stuck in the bottom left corner, and Mike makes a HUMANERROR at the corner of 49D - Literature Nobelist Mario Vargas _____ and 52A - Singer/dancer/actress Falana. Still, any time that we can...

4 Okt 20209min

Friday, September 2, 2020

Friday, September 2, 2020

It is AXIOMATIC: you can RELY on the New York Times to deliver a great Friday puzzle. Mike was QUIK to solve this one, Jean took her THYME, but both agree that it was a HIT!We love feedback! Send us a...

3 Okt 202011min

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