Saturday, 2/4/12
Brendan Emmett Quigley and Caleb Madison’s New York Times crossword Fun puzzle! I mean, sure. YO! MTV RAPS may now be an outdated pop-culture title, but doesn’t it look great in the grid? Note that YOM...
View ArticleSaturday, 2/18/12
The ColorLines blog wrote about the Thursday NYT puzzle’s inclusion of ILLEGAL as a noun. (Hat tip to Michael Sharp–who talked with a Univision reporter about the same subject. The reporter emailed me...
View ArticleSunday, 2/19/12
James F.C. Burns’ New York Times crossword, “Core o’ Nations” I’m usually a sucker for geography themes. This one sneaks a nation into the core o’ each theme answer. No idea why most of the theme...
View ArticleThursday, 3/8/12
Bill Thompson’s New York Times crossword The theme is BROKEN PROMISE, and four synonyms for “promise” are broken by the invasion of other letters in the four remaining theme answers, VARIETY SHOW...
View ArticleSaturday, 3/17/12
David Quarfoot’s New York Times crossword You know, I expected this: an easy Friday, followed by, for me, one of the toughest Saturdays in the last year or so! In fact, I checked, timewise only The...
View ArticleWednesday, 4/11/12
*Not yet blogged. David Kwong’s New York Times crossword Grr. The applet wasn’t registering my “Done” click and I angered it by clicking a second time. Poof! Puzzle vanished. Ergo, a solution grid...
View ArticleWednesday, 4/25/12
Peter Wentz’s New York Times crossword The Monday NYT also had a bunch of short theme answers and a bunch of 7-letter answers. This time, the theme is a little loose—the SEVEN C’S is a pun on “the...
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