Heads up: Tomorrow’s New York Times crossword will be most enjoyable if you print out the PDF (already online!) rather than solving in Across Lite or online. Be careful not to print out or gaze upon p. 2 of the PDF, with the answers.
My post on the puzzle will go up at the regular time.
Newsday 6:38
NYT 6:33
LAT 4:38
CS untimed
WSJ Saturday puzzle 19 minutes—whoo-hoo, it’s a Hex cryptic! (PDF here)
Did the rest of you watch the Scripps spelling bee on TV tonight? There were some crazy-hard words in the mix, and some surprisingly easy ones (gnocchi! netsuke! I know these words!). I watched an hour or two of the earlier [...]
Tags: Anna Stiga, Emily Cox, Henry Rathvon, Randall J. Hartman, Robert H. Wolfe, Samuel A. Donaldson, Stanley Newman
Fireball 6:08
Tausig untimed
BEQ 4:06
NYT 4:02
LAT 3:46
CS untimed
Tags: Ben Tausig, Brendan Emmett Quigley, Elizabeth C. Gorski, Mark Bickham, Patrick Blindauer, Peter Gordon
“Friends in Low Places” by Harvey Estes – 19:36
Hi everybody. Despite being on a top secret mission in deepest darkest Ontario, I’m here for your blogging pleasure. After all, if I miss too many, the Fiend Executive might start to notice and dock my pay.
I wore my Crosswords LA t-shirt for the first time today [...]
Tags: Harvey Estes
Newsday 10:45
NYT 5:35
LAT 4:06
CS untimed
WSJ Saturday Puzzle 19:02—Berry’s “Section Eight”
Tags: Barry C. Silk, Patrick Berry, Randall J. Hartman, Robert H. Wolfe, Trip Payne
NYT 5:14
CHE 4:38—I suggest you solve this one on paper (long theme clues)
LAT 4:27
BEQ Marching Bands 5:09
CS untimed
WSJ 8:29
Tags: Barry C. Silk, Brendan Emmett Quigley, Gail Grabowski, Marie Kelly, Matt Ginsberg, Mike Shenk, Pete Muller, Steve Atwood
NYT 5:38
Fireball untimed
LAT 3:49
Tausig untimed
CS untimed
Tags: Ben Tausig, Gareth Bain, Patrick Blindauer, Patrick Merrell, Sarah Keller
NYT 4:55
Onion 4:17
BEQ 4:04
LAT 3:36
CS untimed
Tags: Brendan Emmett Quigley, David W. Cromer, Pete Muller, Randolph Ross
Jim Horne sent word that this Sunday’s New York Times crossword will not be available for online solving. That’s right—no Java applet, no Across Lite version. Just the newspaper and a downloadable, printable PDF. If you don’t get the newspaper and you don’t have a printer, you’ve still got a few days to figure out [...]
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