Posted on April 23rd, 2010, by Amy Reynaldo
Newsday 6:52 NYT 5:46 LAT 3:51 CS untimed WSJ Saturday Puzzle (acrostic applet recommended) I dunno, 4 to 6 minutes, maybe Announcements, Category 1: Birthdays April 24 is the birthday of several friends of the blog who are pretty terrific people: My son Ben hits double digits, capping a decade of parenting by me and [...]
Tags: Barry C. Silk, Mike Shenk, Randall J. Hartman, Samuel A. Donaldson, Thomas Heilman
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, [...]
Tags: Bob Klahn, Brad Wilber, Jeffrey Wechsler, Samuel A. Donaldson
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 [...]
Tags: Ben Tausig, Francis Heaney, Nancy Salomon, Patrick Blindauer, Samuel A. Donaldson