Posted on May 9th, 2010, by Amy Reynaldo
BEQ 6:43
CS untimed (J)/3:51 (A)
LAT 2:54
NYT 2:45
Is it May 10? Then it’s time for Pete Muller’s bonus crossword, “New Year’s Day.” Available over at the Crossword Fiend forum in both .puz and .pdf formats.
Tags: Bob Klahn, Brendan Emmett Quigley, Dan Naddor, Randy Sowell
Posted on April 28th, 2010, by Amy Reynaldo
NYT 5:05
Fireball 4:51
LAT 3:56
Tausig untimed
CS untimed (J)/3:37 (A)
Today is picture day! Here’s a photo from April 17’s Chicago Crossword Tournament.
The event raised $735 for the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (yay!). Midwesterners, keep April 2011 open for next year’s Marbles Crossword Tournament.
Tags: Ben Tausig, Bob Klahn, David J.W. Simpson, James Sajdak, Peter Gordon
Posted on April 10th, 2010, by Amy Reynaldo
NYT 9:41
LAT 9:13
Reagle 8:35
BG 7:43
shiny new WaPo themeless 7:58—in Java w/link to printable version or download for Across Lite (downloads as csserve.cgi; Across Lite can open it or you can rename it with a .puz extension)
CS 7:39
Tags: Bob Klahn, Emily Cox, Frank Longo, Henry Rathvon, Merl Reagle, Patrick Berry, Tom Heilman
Posted on April 4th, 2010, by Amy Reynaldo
BEQ 6:52
LAT 4:49 in that Flash interface I don’t like
NYT 3:03
CS untimed
Terrific news x 2! First, reports of my retirement from blogging were premature. Hey, my Friday post went up on Thursday night, when it was still April Fools’ Day. But everyone had mostly gotten the pranks out of their system by that hour, so [...]
Tags: Bob Klahn, Brendan Emmett Quigley, Nancy Salomon, Todd McClary
Posted on April 3rd, 2010, by Jeffrey
New York Times – 23:53 (yikes!)
Reagle – 10:33
Boston Globe – 12:50 (with mistakes)
Los Angeles Times – 12:35
CrosSynergy – 7:59
Sudoku Puzzle Grid of the Week
Big Announcement! - now posted!!!!
Welcome to Jeffrey’s Crossword Central! It has been great having Amy blog about crosswords the last 5 years, but now it is time to take crossword commentary to the [...]
Tags: Bob Klahn, Dan Naddor, Doug Peterson, Henry Hook, Merl Reagle
Posted on March 26th, 2010, by Sam Donaldson
NYT Hours and hours! (Sam)
LAT 9:15 (Sam)
Newsday 48:17 (Sam)
CS untimed
Amy’s in transit from Chicago to a secret sunny destination for spring break, so it’s me, Sam Donaldson, sitting in for the weekend puzzles. Wait, that means I have to go public with my solving times on the Saturday puzzles? Eek! Well, let’s make the best [...]
Tags: Bob Klahn, Brad Wilber, Jeffrey Wechsler, Samuel A. Donaldson
Posted on March 15th, 2010, by Sam Donaldson
NYT 7:15 (Sam)
Jonesin’ 5:15 (Sam)
LAT 5:32 (Sam)
CS Untimed (Janie)
Happy St. Patrick’s Eve, crossword fans! Sam Donaldson here filling in for Amy while she completes her March Madness bracket. Now that we survived the Ides of March, we can relax with the Tuesday puzzles.
Tags: Bob Klahn, Jerome Gunderson, Matt Jones, Paula Gamache
Posted on February 27th, 2010, by Amy Reynaldo
Posted on February 18th, 2010, by SethG
NYT 32:47 (SethG, Jill, Google)
CS Untimed
LAT 9:25 (SethG)
CHE 7:13 (SethG)
WSJ ~16:00 (yup, SethG)
BEQ 11:15 (and again, SethG)
Hey there! Amy and the gang, the whole gang, are off ACPTing, so for the next few days you’ll get me. Amy’s sent me the plan, and…did you know she blogs _a lot_ of puzzles? She blogs a lot [...]
Tags: Bob Klahn, Brendan Emmett Quigley, Dan Naddor, Janet Bender, Jeffrey Wechsler, Victor Fleming
Posted on February 7th, 2010, by Amy Reynaldo
BEQ 7:58 with two blank squares
CS untimed (J)/4:26 (A)
NYT 2:41
LAT 2:25
Tags: Bob Klahn, Brendan Emmett Quigley, Jerome Gunderson, Paula Gamache