Friday, 7/2/10
NYT untimed
LAT 3:55
CS untimed
CHE tba
WSJ 8:27
Tags: Doug Peterson, Jack McInturff, Patrick Blindauer, Paula Gamache
NYT untimed
LAT 3:55
CS untimed
CHE tba
WSJ 8:27
Tags: Doug Peterson, Jack McInturff, Patrick Blindauer, Paula Gamache
Newsday 10:13
NYT 7:24
LAT 4:06
CS 3:13
WSJ Saturday Puzzle (Mike Shenk’s “Spell Weaving”) — about 10 minutes
Tags: Anna Stiga, Mike Shenk, Paula Gamache, Robert H. Wolfe, Stanley Newman, Tyler Hinman
4/16 CHE 4:40
Jonesin’ 3:58
LAT 2:58
NYT untimed
CS untimed
NYT second Sunday puzzle (Spiral) 3:10
Yep, I’ve got some catch-up to do here. The Chronicle of Higher Education puzzle page finally posted last week’s crossword today, as well as this week’s puzzle. And I never got around to doing the Spiral over the weekend.
Tags: Gail Grabowski, Kevin Christian, Matt Jones, Paula Gamache, Peter A. Collins, Will Shortz
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
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
NYT Untimed
CS Untimed
LAT 11:50 (SethG)
Newsday Untimed
It’s ACPT Day 1. Amy and the gang are in Brooklyn, so more SethG today. Yay!
Tags: Adam Cohen, Bruce Venzke, Gail Grabowski, Paula Gamache
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
Jonesin’ 4:15
NYT 2:56
LAT 2:34
CS untimed
Constructor Shawn Kennedy has a new website, Puzzlement, where he’ll have a “Daily Teaser” and a larger weekly puzzle. This week’s offering is a word puzzle called “Stuffed Birds”—the challenge is to look at something like R _ CT _ N _ _ _ and figure out what bird can fill [...]
Tags: Dan Naddor, Matt Jones, Paula Gamache, Randall J. Hartman
NYT – 11:26 (Jeffrey – paper)
CS – untimed (Janie)
Daily Beast – 10:32 (Jeffrey)
LAT – 6:32 (Jeffrey)
BEQ – 6:20 (Jeffrey)
CHE – Published today?
WSJ – Published today?
The Scooby-Fiend team is in full force today.
Tags: Brendan Emmett Quigley, Dan Naddor, Martin Ashwood-Smith, Matt Gaffney, Paula Gamache