Wednesday, 8/4/10
Posted on August 3rd, 2010, by Amy Reynaldo
Onion 4:15
NYT 3:32
LAT 3:23
CS untimed
Tags: Daniel A. Finan, Elizabeth C. Gorski, Francis Heaney, Randolph Ross
Posts Tagged ‘Francis Heaney’
Category: Wednesday, 6/16/10
Posted on June 15th, 2010, by Amy Reynaldo
Onion 4:21
NYT 4:07
LAT 3:34
CS untimed
Tags: Francis Heaney, Joe Krozel, Pancho Harrison, Randolph Ross
Sunday, 6/13/10—5th Bloggiversary!
Posted on June 12th, 2010, by Amy Reynaldo
NYT 14:22
Reagle 7:29
LAT 6:58
BG no time at all
CS 11:01 (Evad)
WaPo Post Puzzler 6:02
NYT second Sunday puzzle: diagramless 16 minutes
Oh, dear. I’m not prepared to celebrate this blog’s fifth birthday. I’m posting without even doing any crosswords this evening. What kind of crossword blogger am I, anyway? One with an out-of-town guest to entertain. And sadly, [...]
Tags: Francis Heaney, Henry Hook, John Lampkin, Martin Ashwood-Smith, Merl Reagle, Michael Shteyman, Patrick Berry
Wednesday, 4/21/10
Posted on April 20th, 2010, by Amy Reynaldo
Onion 5:06
LAT 2:56
NYT untimed
CS untimed
BEQ untimed
For another take on last weekend’s Chicago Crossword Tournament, read Ben Bass’s write-up.
Tags: Brendan Emmett Quigley, Donna S. Levin, Francis Heaney, Peter A. Collins, Sarah Keller
Favorite crosswords of 2009
Posted on March 12th, 2010, by Amy Reynaldo
Rex Parker and I aren’t compiling an official set of 2009 Oryx Awards (we hope to do it up big for 2010, though), but I wanted to spotlight the puzzles that enchanted me last year. This list will be heavily weighted towards the types of puzzles I like best (twisty gimmicks! themeless!) and light on [...]
Tags: Ben Tausig, Brad Wilber, Brendan Emmett Quigley, Byron Walden, Dan Naddor, David Chapus, David J. Kahn, Donna Hoke Kahwaty, Donna S. Levin, Doug Peterson, Ed Stein, Elizabeth C. Gorski, Emily Cox, Francis Heaney, Frank Longo, Henry Rathvon, Joon Pahk, Mark Diehl, Matt Gaffney, Matt Ginsberg, Matt Jones, Nancy Salomon, Patrick Berry, Patrick Blindauer, Paula Gamache, Randall J. Hartman, Randolph Ross, Sarah Keller, Stanley Newman, Tony Orbach, Trip Payne, Will Nediger
Wednesday, 2/24/10
Posted on February 23rd, 2010, by Amy Reynaldo
Onion 4:27
BEQ 4:12
NYT 3:47
LAT 2:58
CS untimed
For blog posts and media coverage of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, scroll down on the ACPT 2010 page for a plethora of links. There’s also a list of the 60 participants who finished all seven puzzles with no errors. The usual suspects are on that list, but so are [...]
Tags: Brendan Emmett Quigley, Francis Heaney, Kenneth J. Berniker, Patrick Jordan, Scott Atkinson
Wednesday, 12/30/09
Posted on December 29th, 2009, by Amy Reynaldo
BEQ 5:58
Onion 4:18
NYT 4:04
LAT 3:11
CS untimed
Tags: Adam Cohen, Brendan Emmett Quigley, Dan Naddor, Francis Heaney, Raymond Hamel
Thursday, 12/17/09
Posted on December 16th, 2009, by Amy Reynaldo
NYT 5:28
LAT 4:02
CS untimed
Tausig untimed
Edited to add links to a bonus puzzle: Patrick Blindauer and Michael Sharp (a.k.a. Rex Parker) teamed up on “20 Years of Detention,” available in Across Lite and as a PDF. I test-solved it and had fun with it (at a Wednesday/Thursday level of difficulty). The theme ties to pop culture, [...]
Tags: Ben Tausig, Francis Heaney, Nancy Salomon, Patrick Blindauer, Samuel A. Donaldson
