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Podcast: Jean & Mike Do The New York Times Crossword
Episode: Tuesday, January 9, 2024 - OCTOPI, the Einsteins of the depths! 🐙
Description: This is Adam Wagner's 18th crossword, and it was a doozy, with 4 debut answers, including both cohosts' favorite, 6D, Exploded, WENTKABOOM. The grid was replete with many other less explosive but still notable clues/answers, such as 24D, "The Way" in Chinese Pinyin, DAO; 9D, New Jersey city named for its most famous former resident, EDISON; and 1D, Bully in "Back to the Future", BIFF. A fine, fine crossword, and we are looking forward to Adam Wagner's 19th, which based on his prior record, ought to appear ... tomorrow!Show note imagery: Twelve Years a Slave, by SOLOMONNORTHUP...