Well! The last thing I want to do now is solve more and more puzzles. DASH was a lot of fun, but the puzzle hunt was basically an 8-hour outing. Meals and walking time didn’t count toward the solving time, luckily, but there was still almost five hours of solving gnarly, instruction-free puzzles. I’m tired [...]
Tags: Bruce Venzke, Chris A. McGlothlin, Henry Hook, Karen M. Tracey, Merl Reagle, Xan Vongsathorn
Newsday 13:05 NYT 6:44 LAT 4:18 WSJ Saturday Puzzle 22:27*—Patrick Berry variety grid, “In Boxes” pdf CS untimed (Janie)
Tags: Merle Baker, Patrick Berry, Randolph Ross, Victor Fleming, Xan Vongsathorn
Newsday 5:15 with one error NYT 5:13 LAT 4:24 CS untimed WSJ Saturday Puzzle 26:30—ooh, is it Hex cryptic week? It is!
Tags: Brad Wilber, Doug Peterson, Emily Cox, Henry Rathvon, Joe DiPietro, Xan Vongsathorn
NYT 6:06 LAT 3:49 CS untimed Tausig tba There’s a lovely obituary for Dan Naddor in the L.A. Times. Astonishingly, there are 20 more of his crossword puzzles in the LAT pipeline, with the next one coming out this Friday.
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