Newsday 9:03
NYT 7:43
LAT 4:27
CS untimed
WSJ Saturday Puzzle untimed—here’s the PDF of Hex’s cryptic
Tags: Barry C. Silk, Emily Cox, Henry Rathvon, Randall J. Hartman, S.N., Stanley Newman, Timothy L. Meaker
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
Newsday 6:38
NYT 6:33
LAT 4:38
CS untimed
WSJ Saturday puzzle 19 minutes—whoo-hoo, it’s a Hex cryptic! (PDF here)
Did the rest of you watch the Scripps spelling bee on TV tonight? There were some crazy-hard words in the mix, and some surprisingly easy ones (gnocchi! netsuke! I know these words!). I watched an hour or two of the earlier [...]
Tags: Anna Stiga, Emily Cox, Henry Rathvon, Randall J. Hartman, Robert H. Wolfe, Samuel A. Donaldson, Stanley Newman
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
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
LAT 2:58
NYT 2:31
CS untimed
BEQ untimed
Tags: Brendan Emmett Quigley, Nancy Kavanaugh, Patrick Jordan, Stanley Newman
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