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Friday, 10/22/10

NYT 6:31 LAT 3:38 CHE 3:25 CS untimed WSJ 7:47 Scott Atkinson’s New York Times crossword Dang! Interesting and unusual words, tough clues for little words…and it’s not a Saturday puzzle, just a Friday...

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Friday, 11/5/10

NYT 5:38 LAT 4:00 CHE 2:55 CS untimed WSJ 6:16 Mike Nothnagel’s New York Times crossword: Contest! The Friday NYT puzzle has a contest! Figure out the answer and e-mail it in, and you might be one of...

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Sunday, 11/21/10

NYT 11:42 (Jeffrey) BG 16:19 (Sam) LAT 8:25 (Amy) Reagle 7:28 (Amy) CS 10:51 (Evad) WaPo 4:41 (Amy) Hi, Jeffrey here.  Amy is spending some quality family time tonight so you are stuck with me for the...

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Thursday, 8/11/11

Parker Lewis’s New York Times crossword Parker Lewis can’t lose, can he? This crazy math theme somehow worked itself out even though I only did the work on making sense of the SEQUENCE for the first...

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Wednesday, 10/5/11

Hearty congratulations to Joon Pahk on his second straight Jeopardy! win today! If you weren’t already impressed with the breadth of Joon’s knowledge, surely you are now. Barry Boone’s New York Times...

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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Clive Probert’s New York Times crossword No revealer for this one, but it’s fairly easy to INFER (20a) what connects the relevant fill. 18a. [Some cruise ships, informally] LOVE BOATS. 23a. [Start of a...

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Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Tim Croce’s New York Times crossword If this puzzle had a title, it would be “You Can Say That Again.” Each theme answer is clued with a circular cross-reference to itself because each one needs to be...

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Sunday, August 16, 2015

Don Gagliardo and Zhouqin Burnikel’s New York Times crossword – “As It Were” Howdy, crossword fans. Doug here with a quick Sunday post. The theme is phrases ending with words that are also past tense...

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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Tom McCoy’s New York Times crossword—Erin’s write-up Today’s theme is FOURTEEN POINTS [Proposal of Woodrow Wilson ... or what the scoring values of 18-, 27-, 55- and 66-Across total], in which the...

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