Diary of a Crossword Fiend
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Diary of a Crossword Fiend
8h ago
Jesse Cohn’s New York Times crossword—Amy’s recap Either this puzzle wasn’t in my wheelhouse, or the editing skewed harder than expected. Fave fill: ACCENT WALL, “WHAT THE HEY?” (but that 46a [“Heyo”] caused a brow furrowing), ALL THE RAGE (dupe ..read more
Diary of a Crossword Fiend
1d ago
Joe DiPietro’s New York Times crossword — Zachary David Levy’s write-up Difficulty: Tricky (13m41s) Today’s theme: all jokes lead to Rome WALKED (ON E)GSHELLS DON(T WO)RRY ABOUT IT THE SKIN O(F OUR) TEETH W(EIGH T)HE EVIDENCE One, two, four, eight, what ..read more
Diary of a Crossword Fiend
3d ago
hello, and welcome to episode #831 of matt gaffney’s weekly crossword contest, “You Can Say That Again”. for this week 1 puzzle, the instructions were quite unnecessary. what were the theme answers? some, but not all, of the longest answers ..read more
Diary of a Crossword Fiend
4d ago
Marr Gaffney’s Wall Street Journal contest crossword, “Make it an Even Dozen” — Conrad’s writeup. This week we’re looking for one of the 100 largest cities in the U.S. (per the 2020 census). There were five long horizontal entries. This ..read more
Diary of a Crossword Fiend
4d ago
Malaika Handa’s New York Times crossword — Sophia’s write-up Theme: I’M ON A ROLL – the letters “IM” sit atop three different types of rolls. 16a [Pair of ones, in dice] – SNAKE EYES 29a [Sheet with student names ..read more
Diary of a Crossword Fiend
5d ago
Daniel Bodily’s New York Times crossword, “From the Astronaut’s Logbook” — Nate’s write-up 3D: HAVING A BLAST [Woo-hoo! The engines are firing, all systems are go, and we are feeling good!] 13D: OUT OF THE BLUE [And just like that ..read more
Diary of a Crossword Fiend
6d ago
Jacob McDermott’s New York Times crossword—Amy’s recap Not too hard at all, compared to the Saturday NYTs of a few weeks ago. Fave fill: “LUCY, I’M HOME,” BIOTECH, “GOTTA LOVE IT,” lexicographer WEBSTER, RISKS IT ALL, WABI-SABI, FAMILY TREE, PODIATRIST ..read more
Diary of a Crossword Fiend
1w ago
Eli Cotham’s New York Times crossword—Amy’s recap Fun Friday puzzle, and it actually felt like a Friday puzzle to me. Absolutely loved the stacked pairs of 15s. DEAD TREE EDITION (a print newspaper), “AN HEIR AND A SPARE” (William being ..read more
Diary of a Crossword Fiend
1w ago
AJ Phillips’s Wall Street Journal crossword, “Heavy Lifting”—Jim’s review Theme answers are familiar (though unclued) words and phrases that feature the word OVER. Remove the OVERs (mentally) to get the entry to match the clue. The revealer is OVERLOADED (59a ..read more
Diary of a Crossword Fiend
1w ago
Mike Shenk’s Wall Street Journal crossword, “Wishful Sinking”—Jim’s review Today is May 1st, aka “May Day” in some parts of the world (mainly Europe). When we lived in England, our village would host their annual May Day FETE, which of ..read more