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Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Posted on August 31, 2021 by Jim Peredo

LAT 5:43 (Gareth)

The New Yorker 4:02 (Matthew)

NYT 4:34 (Amy)

WSJ 6:51 (Jim P)

Universal untimed (pannonica)

USA Today 4:12 (Sophia)

AVCX untimed (Ben)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Bruce Venzke, Erica Hsiung Wojcik, Matthew Stock, Michael Dewey, Natan Last, Paul Coulter, Sean Yamada-Hunter, Zhouqin Burnikel | 24 Comments

MGWCC #691

Posted on August 31, 2021 by joon

crossword 5:51
meta 10ish

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Posted in Contests | Tagged Matt Gaffney | 19 Comments

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Posted on August 30, 2021 by Adesina O. Koiki

Jonesin' 3:57 (Derek)

LAT 3:20 (Derek)

NYT 4:18 (Amy)

Universal untimed (Jim Q)

USA Today 9:54 (Emily)

WSJ 5:04 (Jim P)

Xword Nation untimed (Ade)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Claire Rimkus, David Williams, Elizabeth C. Gorski, Eric Bornstein, Kurt Krauss, Matt Jones, Matthew Stock, Steph Brown | 5 Comments

WSJ Contest — Friday, August 27, 2021

Posted on August 29, 2021 by Conrad

Grid: 10 minutes; meta: 10 more

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Monday, August 30, 2021

Posted on August 29, 2021 by Sophia Maymudes

BEQ 5:00 (Matthew)

LAT 2:26 (Stella)

NYT 4:02 (Sophia)

The New Yorker untimed (Nina)

Universal untimed (pannonica)

USA Today 4:30 (Darby)

WSJ 4:38 (Jim P)

New Crossword Fundraiser! If you’re like me and the crossword highlights on Monday are the themelesses (New Yorker and BEQ), don’t miss out on Sid Sivakumar’s set of four wide-open themeless puzzles. Simply donate $10 or more to aid Afghan women and girls, forward your email receipt to Sid, and he’ll email you the puzzles in .puz/.pdf forms. I just solved #1 and it was tougher than a Friday NYT but not by too much. (I not so secretly hope the other three are harder.) The details and an annotated list of organizations to donate to are at the Sid’s Grids site.

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Adesina O. Koiki, Andrea Carla Michaels, Brendan Emmett Quigley, Brooke Husic, C.C. Burnikel, Jim Holland, Kevin Christian, Zhouqin Burnikel | 9 Comments

Sunday, August 29, 2021

Posted on August 28, 2021 by Amy Reynaldo

LAT tk (Gareth)

NYT untimed (Amy)

Universal untimed (Jim Q)

Universal (Sunday) 8:57 (Jim P)

USA Today 6:01 (Darby)

WaPo 13:58 (Jim Q)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Dory Mintz, Evan Birnholz, Gary Larson, Paul Coulter, Zhouqin Burnikel | 11 Comments

Saturday, August 28, 2021

Posted on August 27, 2021 by Amy Reynaldo

LAT 4:49 (Derek)

Newsday 18:59 (Derek)

NYT 7:52 (Amy)

Universal untimed (Jim Q)

USA Today 5:38 (Nina)

WSJ untimed (pannonica)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Craig Stowe, Gary Larson, Jordan Hildebrandt, Julian Lim, Matthew Sewell | 28 Comments

Friday, August 27, 2021

Posted on August 26, 2021 by Amy Reynaldo

LAT untimed (pannonica)

NYT 4:40 (Amy)

The New Yorker 4:25 (Amy)

Universal 5:38 (Jim P)

USA Today 4:59 (Darby)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Andrew McIntyre, David Alfred Bywaters, Patrick Berry, Robyn Weintraub, Zhouqin Burnikel | 14 Comments

Thursday, August 26, 2021

Posted on August 25, 2021 by Ben Smith

BEQ untimed (Darby)

LAT 3:39 (GRAB)

NYT 11:38 (Ben)

Universal untimed (Jim Q)

WSJ 6:36 (Jim P)

USA Today 4:12 (Sophia)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Ashish Vengsarkar, Brendan Emmett Quigley, Chris Sablich, Kevin Patterson, Malaika Handa, Rafael Musa | 12 Comments

MGWCC #690

Posted on August 25, 2021 by joon

crossword 2:47
meta 0:10

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Posted in Contests | Tagged Matt Gaffney | 33 Comments