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Thursday, January 12, 2017

Posted on January 11, 2017 by Amy Reynaldo

BEQ 8:53 (Ben)

CS 8:17 (Ade)

Fireball 12:10 (Jenni)

LAT tk (Gareth)

NYT 5:29 (Amy)

WSJ untimed (Jim)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Alex Eaton-Salners, Brendan Emmett Quigley, Bruce Venzke, C.C. Burnikel, Doug Peterson, Joe Krozel | 27 Comments

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Posted on January 10, 2017 by Amy Reynaldo

AV Club 7:23 (Ben)

CS 7:39 (Ade)

LAT 3:15 (Gareth)

NYT 4:54 (Jenni)

WSJ untimed (Jim)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Patrick Jordan, Peter A. Collins, Robert E. Lee Morris, Samuel A. Donaldson, Susan Gelfand | 16 Comments

MGWCC #449

Posted on January 10, 2017 by joon

crossword 3:19
meta -2:00

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Posted in Contests | Tagged Matt Gaffney | 16 Comments

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Amy Reynaldo

CS 6:50 (Ade)

Jonesin' untimed (Derek)

LAT 3:23 (Derek)

NYT untimed (Amy)

WSJ untimed (Jim)

Xword Nation untimed (PuzzleGirl)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Craig Stowe, David Poole, Doug Peterson, Elizabeth C. Gorski, Janice Luttrell, Matt Jones | 11 Comments

WSJ Contest – January 6, 2017

Posted on January 8, 2017 by Evad

untimed (Evad)

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Posted in Contests | Tagged Matt Gaffney | 14 Comments

Monday, January 9, 2017

Posted on January 8, 2017 by pannonica

BEQ tk (Gareth)

CS 9:43 (Ade)

LAT untimed (pannonica)

NYT untimed (pannonica)

WSJ untimed (Jim)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Alan Arbesfeld, Bruce Venzke, Gail Grabowski, Neville Fogarty, Zhouqin Burnikel | 15 Comments

Sunday, January 8, 2017

Posted on January 7, 2017 by Amy Reynaldo

CS 10:11 (Ade)

Hex/Quigley untimed (pannonica)

LAT 5:31 (Andy)

NYT untimed (Amy)

WaPo 14:48 (Erin)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Emily Cox, Erik Agard, Evan Birnholz, Henry Rathvon, Martin Ashwood-Smith, Paul Coulter, Peter Broda | 31 Comments

Saturday, January 7, 2017

Posted on January 6, 2017 by Amy Reynaldo

CS 8:31 (Ade)

LAT 7:23 (Derek)

Newsday 18:00 (Derek)

NYT 5:48 (Amy)

WSJ untimed (pannonica)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Alex Eaton-Salners, David Steinberg, Frank Longo, Patti Varol, Roland Huget | 15 Comments

Friday, January 6, 2017

Posted on January 5, 2017 by Amy Reynaldo

CHE untimed (pannonica)

CS tk (Ade)

LAT 7:14 (Gareth)

NYT 6:02 (Amy)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged C.C. Burnikel, Gary Schlapfe, Jacob Stulberg, Janie Smulyan | 21 Comments

Thursday, January 5, 2017

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Amy Reynaldo

BEQ 9:22 (Ben)

CS 7:56 (Ade)

LAT 5:09 (Gareth)

NYT 4:59 (Amy)

WSJ untimed (Jim)

Bad news for crossword fans—the CrosSynergy syndicate is disbanding. The CS crosswords that run in the Washington Post will end when the puzzles in the pipeline run out, which might be in a couple weeks. We thank Bob Klahn and the rest of the CS team for their two decades of excellent work, and for setting it up so that the constructors all retained copyright for their work.
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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Brendan Emmett Quigley, Ed Sessa, Julian Thorne, Mike Shenk, Morton J. Mendelson, Randolph Ross | 28 Comments