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Thursday, December 15, 2022

Posted on December 14, 2022 by Jim Peredo

BEQ untimed (Darby)

LAT 4:09 (Gareth)

NYT 14:19 (ZDL)

The New Yorker 2:55 (Amy)

Universal 4:40 (Sophia)

USA Today 6:10 (Emily)

Fireball untimed (Jenni)

WSJ untimed (Jim P)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Alex Eaton-Salners, Amie Walker, Bill Thompson, Brendan Emmett Quigley, Bruce Haight, Ed Sessa, Mark Valdez, Patrick Berry | 20 Comments

Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Posted on December 13, 2022 by Jim Peredo

LAT 4:09 (Gareth)

The New Yorker 3:37 (Amy)

NYT 4:31 (Amy)

WSJ untimed (Jim P)

Universal untimed (pannonica)

USA Today 12:20 (Emily)

AVCX untimed (Rebecca)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Aimee Lucido, Jeff Stillman, Joe DiPietro, Matthew Stock, Parker Higgins, Zaineb Akbar, Zhouqin Burnikel | 19 Comments

MGWCC #758

Posted on December 13, 2022 by pannonica

untimed

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Posted in Contests | Tagged Matt Gaffney | 10 Comments

Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Posted on December 12, 2022 by Erin Milligan-Milburn

Jonesin' 4:27 (Erin)

LAT untimed (Jenni)

NYT 3:46 (Amy)

The New Yorker untimed (pannonica)

Universal 5:50 (Matt F)

USA Today 4:01 (Sophia)

WSJ untimed (Jim P)

Xword Nation untimed (Ade)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Anna Shechtman, Brooke Husic, Elizabeth C. Gorski, Julietta Gervase, Malaika Handa, Matt Jones, Rebecca Goldstein, Regis Cleary, Tiffany Chong | 17 Comments

Monday, December 12, 2022

Posted on December 11, 2022 by Sophia Maymudes

BEQ tk(Matthew)

LAT 1:45 (Stella)

NYT 3:19 (Sophia)

The New Yorker 6:47 (Amy)

Universal untimed (pannonica)

USA Today tk (malaika)

WSJ untimed (Jim P)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Anthony J. Caruso, David Tuffs, Gary Otting, Micah Sommersmith, Natan Last, Wayne Bergman, Zhouqin Burnikel | 13 Comments

WSJ Contest — Friday, December 9, 2022

Posted on December 11, 2022 by Conrad

Grid: 20 minutes; meta: 15 more

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Posted in Contests | Tagged Mike Shenk | 9 Comments

Muller Monthly Music Meta — December 2022

Posted on December 11, 2022 by Matt Gaffney

puzzle 10ish; meta: 20 min. (Matt)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | 10 Comments

Sunday, December 11, 2022

Posted on December 10, 2022 by Nate Cardin

LAT tk(Gareth)

NYT 14:17 (Nate)

USA Today 5:28 (Darby)

Universal (Sunday) untimed (Jim P)

Universal 3:58 (norah)

WaPo untimed (Matthew)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Evan Birnholz, John-Clark Levin, Julian Lim, Laura Taylor Kinnel, Zhouqin Burnikel | 17 Comments

Saturday, December 10, 2022

Posted on December 9, 2022 by Amy Reynaldo

LAT 2:55 (Stella)

Newsday 41:39 (pannonica)

NYT 5:07 (Amy)

Universal 4:58 (norah)

USA Today 1:59 (Matthew)

WSJ untimed (pannonica)

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged C.C. Burnikel, Erik Agard, Matthew Sewell, Mike Shenk, Sid Sivakumar, Tom Pepper, Tony Caruso, Zhouqin Burnikel | 33 Comments

Friday, December 9, 2022

Posted on December 8, 2022 by Amy Reynaldo

Inkubator untimed, late (Jenni)

LAT untimed (pannonica)

The New Yorker tk (Matt)

NYT 5:04 (Amy)

Universal untimed (Jim P)

USA Today 5:46 (Darby)

Hello! We’re supporting the New York Times Guild members’ 24-hour walkout on Thursday, so this blog won’t be reviewing the Friday NYT crossword till daytime Friday. Please join us in not accessing the Friday puzzle on Thursday night, whether it’s via the Internet or the app. There are lots of other crosswords you can do in the meantime! Many thanks.–Amy

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Posted in Daily Puzzles | Tagged Barbara Lin, Brooke Husic, Hanh Huynh, Hoang-Kim Vu, Katie Hale, Will Nediger, Zaineb Akbar | 22 Comments