MGWCC #664

crossword 3:06 
meta DNF 

 


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Wednesday, February 24, 2021

LAT 4:31 (Gareth) 

 


The New Yorker 7:58 (Rachel) 

 


NYT 4:07 with typo hunt (Amy) 

 


WSJ 5:52 (Jim P) 

 


Universal untimed (pannonica) 

 


AVCX 12:16 (Ben) 

 

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Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Jonesin' 3:41 (Derek) 

 


LAT 2:53 (Derek) 

 


NYT 3:06 (Amy) 

 


Universal 4:44 (Jim Q) 

 


WSJ 6:10 (Jim P) 

 


Xword Nation untimed (Ade) 

 

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WSJ Contest — Friday, February 19, 2021

Grid: 7ish; Meta: immediately  

 


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Monday, February 22, 2021

BEQ untimed (Jenni) 

 


LAT 1:53 (Stella) 

 


NYT 3:05 (Jenni) 

 


The New Yorker 13:39 (Rachel) 

 


Universal untimed (pannonica) 

 


WSJ untimed (Jim P) 

 

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Sunday, February 21, 2021

LAT untimed (Jenni) 

 


NYT untimed (Amy) 

 


Universal 3:32 (Jim Q)  

 


Universal (Sunday) 10:39 (Jim P) 

 


WaPo 11:56 (Jim Q) 

 

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Saturday, February 20, 2021

LAT 4:51 (Derek) 

 


Newsday 9:03 (Derek) 

 


NYT 5:19 (Amy) 

 


Universal untimed (Jim Q) 

 


WSJ untimed (pannonica) 

 

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Friday, February 19, 2021

Inkubator 5:04 (Jenni) 

 


LAT untimed (pannonica) 

 


NYT 4:50 (Amy) 

 


The New Yorker 3:26 (Rachel) 

 


Universal untimed (Jim P) 

 

Greetings, fans of themeless crosswords! The Boswords crew has another virtual crossword tournament coming up, the Spring Themeless League. There’s a preseason puzzle on Monday, February 22, sort of a dry run for the online solving and the Twitch video stream and livechat. The competition runs the next eight weeks, on Monday evenings from March 1 to April 26. If you’re not free every Monday night, that’s fine—asynchronous solving is fine. I enjoyed the Fall Themeless League, competing in the toughest of three divisions, “Stormy”—and felt that all of the Stormy puzzles were harder than most Saturday NYTs. There are intermediate “Choppy” and easier “Smooth” divisions, too. More info and registration links here.

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Thursday, February 18, 2021

BEQ untimed (Jenni) 

 


LAT 4:23 (GRAB) 

 


NYT 9:09 (Ben) 

 


Universal untimed (Jim Q) 

 


WSJ 9:31 (Jim P) 

 


Fireball 7:50 (Jenni) 

 

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Wednesday, February 17, 2021

LAT 4:05 (Gareth) 

 


The New Yorker 7:27 (Rachel) 

 


NYT 4:16 post-typo-search (Amy) 

 


WSJ 5:34 (Jim P) 

 


Universal untimed (pannonica) 

 


AVCX 11:00 (Ben) 

 

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