Jean & Mike Do The New York Times Crossword

One of those great Thursdays, with a theme guaranteed to provide a glorious aha! moment that will stay with you all day. Jean was slowed down slightly by a RARE gathering of RANDOS, while Mike was ela...

13 Nov 202012min

A wonderful Wednesday crossword, with a clever and appropriate theme for Veteran's Day. Particularly witty clues included 51A, Producer of a lot of suits?, BUSINESSSCHOOL, and the award winning 46D, ...

12 Nov 202012min

A punny Tuesday crossword with lots to like: if the answer to 20A, Sommelier?, PORTAUTHORITY, doesn't bring a smile to your lips, well ... that's just a theoretical question, because we know it will. ...

11 Nov 20209min

A fairly crunchy crossword, for a Monday, with an interesting but subtle theme -- a vowel-wordchain, with AEIOU showing up in a series of descending clues: PALLBEARER, PELLGRANT, PILLBUG, POLLTAKER, P...

10 Nov 20206min

Jean tears through today's crossword, while Mike, FELTSAD to discover the bottom-left corner to be almost LETHAL (but still TAME compared to yesterday!). We give it a 4.0 squares on the JAMCR scale...

9 Nov 20208min

A ferocious Saturday, so let's get right to today's crossword AUTOPSY! Mike is run over by GRANIMALS, gets kicked in the SHIN, lost a MINT by betting on, well, MINT, and chose a few other words INERRO...

8 Nov 202014min

A crossword that almost drove both Jean & Mike BANANAS, but they fought it to THEBITTEREND and, abetted by ALOT of luck and a little BARTRIVIA, were able to triumph. Some especially fun clues -- 13A,...

7 Nov 202012min

OHLOOK, it's a Thursday crossword honoring the beloved HASHTAG (nee pound sign, aka octothorp), and ALLTHINGSBEING=, there are no puzzles we'd rather be SOLVING than ones like these, by Jeremy Newton...

6 Nov 202011min