Tuesday, 7/20/10
Jonesin’ 4:27
NYT 3:03
LAT 2:57
CS untimed
Tags: Bruce Venzke, Ed Sessa, Fred Piscop, Matt Jones
Jonesin’ 4:27
NYT 3:03
LAT 2:57
CS untimed
Tags: Bruce Venzke, Ed Sessa, Fred Piscop, Matt Jones
Onion 4:56
NYT 3:38
LAT 3:14
CS untimed
I won’t be home tonight when the NYT crossword comes out, and will be getting home late. With any luck, the place I’m going is not lying about having functioning Wi-Fi, and I’ll be able to blog the puzzle at a respectable time. We shall see.
Tags: Ben Tausig, Bruce Venzke, Michael Black, Patrick Blindauer
Newsday 9:59
NYT untimed
LAT 4:45
CS untimed
WSJ Saturday Puzzle—a Hex cryptic! (PDF here) 22 minutes ’til I got too sleepy to unravel the last corner, 3 more minutes Saturday a.m.
Tags: Anna Stiga, Bruce Venzke, Emily Cox, Henry Rathvon, Joe Krozel, Stanley Newman, Will Nediger
Jonesin’ 3:43
LAT 2:49
NYT untimed
CS untimed
Hello again!
New York was wonderful. I hardly did any crosswords for five days. I had a chance to do one at Byron Walden and Robin Schulman’s wedding, but wouldn’t you know it? I had already done their Friday nuptials puzzle in the applet Thursday night, and that’s what was available at [...]
Tags: Bruce Venzke, Matt Jones, Peter A. Collins, William I. Johnston
BEQ 7:30
NYT 2:59
LAT 2:43
CS untimed
What a lovely day my bloggiversary turned out to be! It was so gratifying to hear your kind words, and Will Shortz happened to schedule a brilliantly inventive crossword for the occasion. Sure, it was nominally about Flag Day, but come on. Geography trivia plus a rebus? It was practically [...]
Tags: Brendan Emmett Quigley, Bruce Venzke, Mark Feldman, Randall J. Hartman
Jonesin’ 3:45
NYT 3:34
LAT 3:03
CS 6:24 (Evad)
Tags: Barry C. Silk, Bruce Venzke, Matt Jones, Peter A. Collins
Reagle 9:38
BG 8:37
NYT 7:27
LAT 7:12
WaPo Puzzler 5:41
CS 9:27 – 1 error (Evad)
Tags: Bruce Venzke, Emily Cox, Henry Rathvon, Merl Reagle, Pamela Amick Klawitter, Trip Payne, Yaakov Bendavid
BEQ 7:26 and then I gave up on those last squares
Onion 4:28
NYT 4:23
LAT 4:14
CS untimed
Happy arithmetic day! 5 + 5 = 10. My parents got married on 8 x 8 = 64, and I always thought that was cool.
P.S. Caleb Madison constructs a puzzle for the Bard Bulletin, his school publication. You can solve it [...]
Tags: Alan Olschwang, Brendan Emmett Quigley, Bruce Venzke, Dan Schoenholz, Tyler Hinman
BEQ 5:15
LAT 2:55
NYT untimed
CS untimed
Tags: Brendan Emmett Quigley, Bruce Venzke, Mike Peluso, Randy Sowell, Stella Daily
NYT 9:28
Reagle 9:00
LAT 7:16
BG 6:38
CS 3:07
Ah, spring! When the crocuses begin to bloom just in time to be blanketed with snow.
Updated to add: Don’t miss Liz Gorski’s discourse on “The Myth of Crosswordese”.
Tags: Adam Fromm, Bruce Venzke, Henry Hook, John Lampkin, Merl Reagle, Stella Daily