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WSJ Contest — Friday, February 21, 2020

Posted on February 23, 2020 by LauraB

Grid: 6ish; Meta: 30 seconds

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Posted in Contests | Tagged Patrick Berry | 7 Comments

Monday, February 24, 2020

Posted on February 23, 2020 by Jenni Levy

BEQ untimed (Jim Q)

LAT 4:06 (Nate)

NYT 3:10 (Jenni)

The New Yorker 6:40 (Rachel)

Universal tk (Rebecca)

WSJ untimed (Jim P)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Brendan Emmett Quigley, Elizabeth C. Gorski, Gary Cee, Jacob Stulberg, Matt McKinley | 2 Comments

Sunday, February 23, 2020

Posted on February 22, 2020 by Amy Reynaldo

LAT untimed (Jenni)

NYT 8:02 (Amy)

WaPo 12:30 (Jim Q)

Universal 4:22 (Jim Q)

Universal (Sunday) untimed (Rebecca)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Brian Gubin, David Maymudes, Evan Birnholz, John-Clark Levin, Sophia Maymudes, Val Melius | 11 Comments

Saturday, February 22, 2020

Posted on February 21, 2020 by Amy Reynaldo

LAT 4:29 (Derek)

Newsday 14:36 (Derek)

NYT untimed (Amy)

Universal 4:31 (Jim Q)

WSJ untimed (pannonica)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged C.C. Burnikel, John Lampkin, Matthew Sewell, Samuel A. Donaldson, Trenton Charlson | 26 Comments

Friday, February 21, 2020

Posted on February 20, 2020 by Amy Reynaldo

CHE untimed (pannonica)

LAT 4:10 (Jenni)

NYT 4:57 (Amy)

The New Yorker 6:01 (Rachel)

Universal untimed (Rebecca)

Patrick Berry has a new mini-puzzle extravaganza! For $10, you’ll get the “Sweet 16” PDF with 16 half-page variety puzzles (about the difficulty level of the variety puzzles in the Sunday NYT magazine) plus a meta-puzzle to tie everything together. Several of the puzzle forms were newly created for this set, because that’s just how the inventive Berry rolls. Click here to order “Sweet 16.”

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Anne Flinchbaugh, Erik Agard, Jeffrey Wechsler, Kevin Salat, Michael Schlossberg, Patrick Berry | 22 Comments

Thursday, February 20, 2020

Posted on February 19, 2020 by Jim Peredo

BEQ 16:01 (Ade)

LAT 4:20 (GRAB)

NYT 9:42 (Ben)

WSJ 9:21 (Jim P)

Universal tk (Jim Q)

No Fireball puzzle this week.

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Brendan Emmett Quigley, Bruce Haight, Joe Deeney, Michael Schlossberg | 21 Comments

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Posted on February 18, 2020 by Jim Peredo

LAT 4:44 (Gareth)

NYT 4:23 (Amy)

WSJ 6:36 (Jim P)

Universal untimed (Rebecca)

AVCX 5:09 (Ben)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Alex Eaton-Salners, Francis Heaney, Roland Huget, Winston Emmons, Zachary David Levy | 17 Comments

MGWCC #611

Posted on February 18, 2020 by joon

crossword 3:44
meta DNF

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Posted in Contests | Tagged Matt Gaffney | 38 Comments

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Posted on February 17, 2020 by Adesina O. Koiki

Jonesin' 5:31 (Derek)

LAT 3:26 (Derek)

NYT 3:32 (Amy)

Universal 3:31 (Jim Q)

WSJ tk (Nate)

Xword Nation untimed (Ade)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Amy Goldstein, Craig Stowe, Elizabeth C. Gorski, Joanne Sullivan, John Guzzetta, Jules Markey, Jules P. Markey, Matt Jones | 14 Comments

WSJ Contest – Friday, February 14, 2020

Posted on February 16, 2020 by LauraB

Grid: 8ish; Meta: same

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Posted in Contests | Tagged Matt Gaffney | 14 Comments