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Podcast: Jean & Mike Do The New York Times Crossword
Episode: Saturday, September 13, 2025 - YAFSC (Yet Another Fantabulous Saturday Crossword)!
Description: This was definitely a Saturday-caliber crossword, where Will & company pull out pretty much all the stops. On no other day of the week will you see entertaining, educational, and definitely challenging clues like 16A, Italian pianist who composed the scores for "Nomadland" and "The Father", LUDOVICOEINAUDI (yikes!); or 40A, Origin of "The Tale of Genji," considered by many to be the world's first novel, JAPAN (huh); or the amusing 25A, The 21,728th page of 1989's 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, END (what else?).😀 This was a debut for Alex Jiang, and we await, with a mixture of anticipation and...