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Podcast: Jean & Mike Do The New York Times Crossword
Episode: Saturday, January 13, 2024 - Somewhere between new and crescent, it's ... BABYMOON!
Description: An easier than usual Saturday crossword (for at least one of our cohosts, no prizes for guessing who!), which means that -- according to the Law of Conservation of Crossword Difficulty -- Sunday is going to be a toughie! This puzzle did have some fine moments, though, including 13D, Caped crusader?, TORERO; 14D, First garment, perhaps, ONESIE; and one of the finer "bail out" excuses of recent times, 7D, "That's why you get the big bucks and not me", ABOVEMYPAYGRADE.   Show notes imagery: The Brahmaputra, the 9th largest river in the world (based on the volume of wat...