Tag Archives: Patrick Berry

Sunday, 6/13/10—5th Bloggiversary!

NYT 14:22 Reagle 7:29 LAT 6:58 BG no time at all CS 11:01 (Evad) WaPo Post Puzzler 6:02 NYT second Sunday puzzle: diagramless 16 minutes Oh, dear. I’m not prepared to celebrate this blog’s fifth birthday. I’m posting without even … Continue reading

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Saturday, 6/12/10

Newsday 8:28 NYT 5:55 LAT 5:11 CS untimed WSJ Saturday Puzzle 11 minutes

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Saturday, 5/29/10

NYT 6:44 LAT 4:48 Newsday 4:33 CS 6:09 (Evad) WSJ Saturday Puzzle untimed

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Friday, 5/21/10

BEQ 6:12 NYT 5:09 CHE 4:16 (long theme clues—might want to print this one out) LAT 3:54 CS 5:15 (Evad)/2:52 (Amy)

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Saturday, 5/15/10

Newsday 10:45 NYT 5:35 LAT 4:06 CS untimed WSJ Saturday Puzzle 19:02—Berry’s “Section Eight”

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Sunday, 5/9/10

LAT 9:46 Reagle 8:11 NYT 7:24 BG 6:42 WaPo Puzzler 4:24 CS 3:27 Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there! And if you’ve lost your own mother, or you wanted to be a mom but never got the … Continue reading

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Friday, 4/30/10

NYT 7:21 LAT 5:06 CHE 3:47 CS untimed BEQ 5:55 (grid only), about 30 seconds for meta WSJ 8:21 Look! I made a word square in Lexulous (Facebook’s Scrabble-like game). I played the ADZ going down and racked up 71 … Continue reading

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Saturday, 4/17/10

NYT 8:36 Newsday 6:57 LAT 4:35 CS untimed WSJ Saturday Puzzle (Snake Charmer) 2:57 It’s here! April 17 is here! Saturday afternoon, I’ll be at the Marbles Chicago Crossword Tournament. Anne Erdmann, Katje Sabin, and Bob Petitto plan to volunteer … Continue reading

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Sunday, 4/11/10

NYT 9:41 LAT 9:13 Reagle 8:35 BG 7:43 shiny new WaPo themeless 7:58—in Java w/link to printable version or download for Across Lite (downloads as csserve.cgi; Across Lite can open it or you can rename it with a .puz extension) … Continue reading

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Favorite crosswords of 2009

Rex Parker and I aren’t compiling an official set of 2009 Oryx Awards (we hope to do it up big for 2010, though), but I wanted to spotlight the puzzles that enchanted me last year. This list will be heavily … Continue reading

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