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Thursday, February 4, 2016

Posted on February 3, 2016 by Amy Reynaldo

BEQ 9:56 (Ben)

CS 7:30 (Ade)

Fireball puzzle 7:31; theme 10 minutes (Matt)

LAT 7:08 (Gareth)

NYT 5:52 (Amy)

WSJ untimed (Jim)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Brendan Emmett Quigley, Celia Smith, Doug Peterson, Jeff Chen, Randall J. Hartman, Roland Huget | 22 Comments

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Posted on February 2, 2016 by Erin Milligan-Milburn

NYT 3:59 (Erin)

WSJ untimed (Jim)

LAT 4:32 (Gareth)

CS 8:03 (Ade)

AV Club 8:06 (Ben)

BuzzFeed 4:59 (Amy)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged C.W. Stewart, Francis Heaney, Howard Barkin, Randall J. Hartman, Samuel A. Donaldson, Tom McCoy | 16 Comments

MGWCC #400

Posted on February 2, 2016 by joon

crossword 4:04
meta dnf

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Posted in Contests | Tagged Matt Gaffney | 30 Comments

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Posted on February 1, 2016 by Amy Reynaldo

Blindauer 10:26 (Matt)

CS 8:31 (Ade)

Jonesin' 4:53 (Derek)

LAT 4:12 (Derek)

NYT 3:38 (Amy)

WSJ untimed (Jim)

Xword Nation untimed (Janie)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged C.C. Burnikel, Elizabeth C. Gorski, Matt Jones, Maxine Cantor, Patrick Blindauer, Peter A. Collins, Todd McClary | 13 Comments

WSJ Contest – Friday, January 29, 2016

Posted on January 31, 2016 by Evad

untimed (Evad)

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Posted in Contests | Tagged Todd McClary | 1 Comment

Monday, February 1, 2016

Posted on January 31, 2016 by pannonica

NYT untimed (pannonica)

Fireball untimed (Jenni)

LAT untimed (pannonica)

CS 6:55 (Ade)

WSJ untimed (Jim)

BEQ 4:05 (Amy)

BuzzFeed 2:53 (Andy)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Brendan Emmett Quigley, Dan Fisher, Gary Cee, Jacob Stulberg, Janice Luttrell, Patrick Jordan, Todd McClary | 3 Comments

Sunday, January 31, 2016

Posted on January 30, 2016 by Amy Reynaldo

CS 20:49 (Ade)

Hex/Quigley untimed (pannonica)

LAT 6:08 (Andy)

NYT 9:06 (Amy)

WaPo 9:42 (Amy)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Emily Cox, Evan Birnholz, Henry Rathvon, Martin Ashwood-Smith, Yaakov Bendavid | 16 Comments

Saturday, January 30, 2016

Posted on January 29, 2016 by Amy Reynaldo

CS 7:17 (Ade)

LAT 8:03 (Derek)

Newsday 16:19 (Derek)

NYT 5:22 (Amy)

WSJ untimed (pannonica)

If you’ve been skipping the new Washington Post Sunday puzzles by Evan Birnholz because you prefer to solve in .puz format, you are in luck! Evan’s first eight puzzles are available (For a limited time only! Act now!) via this link. That’s a .zip you can unzip to get the eight puzzle files. And also, the Crossword Fiend “Today’s Puzzles” download page will henceforth be including an Across Lite link for each new Sunday Birnholz puzzle.
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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Brad Wilber, Doug Peterson, Harold Jones, Lars G. Doubleday, Mike Shenk, Patti Varol, Samuel A. Donaldson | 21 Comments

Friday, January 29, 2016

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Amy Reynaldo

CS 8:36 (Ade)

LAT 8:39 (Gareth)

NYT 4:47 (Amy)

CHE untimed (pannonica)

BuzzFeed 9:29 (Derek)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Adam Prince, Bruce Venzke, David Phillips, Mark McClain | 19 Comments

Thursday, January 28, 2016

Posted on January 27, 2016 by Amy Reynaldo

BEQ untimed (Ben)

CS 7:23 (Ade)

LAT 4:00 (Gareth)

NYT 6:38 (Amy)

WSJ untimed (Jim)

This week’s Fireball puzzle is a contest crossword by the phenomenal Todd McClary. I haven’t done it yet but I’m expecting some elegance. Jenni’s review will appear Sunday night or Monday.
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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Brendan Emmett Quigley, Charlie Oldham, Elizabeth C. Gorski, Robert E. Lee Morris, Tony Orbach | 18 Comments