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Podcast: Jean & Mike Do The New York Times Crossword
Episode: Friday, February 13, 2026 - In which we celebrate a great crossword *and* the Winter Olympics ⛸️
Description: This was just what we want out of a Friday crossword: daunting, deliciously deceptive cluing and not an iota of crosswordese anywhere in the grid. Evan Mulvihill has succeeded on both counts, as you can hear in today's episode. Besides those clues covered therein, we liked 28A, Really fancy?, COVET; a numerically rich clue about something only the rich could afford, 32A, The 14.54-carat Apollo Blue, e.g., which sold for more than $42 million in 2017, DIAMONDEARRING; and the abfab 37D, Ferruginous pigment, SIENNA (woah!). Nice work, Evan!Show note imagery: SANMARINO, in all its glory!<...